12 indie devs team up to make the dark, surreal, brilliant Experiment 12

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Chain games/worlds are a fantastic idea, and we need to see more of them. Case in point: indie mega-collaboration Experiment 12 , for which 12 indie developers (including VVVVVV's Terry Cavanagh, Lone Survivor's Jasper Byrne, and Kairo's Richard Perrin) each developed a chapter of a wonderfully strange, often hallucinatory story, before passing it onto the next creator in the chain. The results can be found here .

Here's the full list of developers involved:

  • Terry Cavanagh (VVVVVV, Super Hexagon)

  • Ian Snyder (Captain Dan v. Zombie Plan)

  • Jack King-Spooner (Will You Ever Return?, Blues for Mittavinda)

  • Zarathustra (Eversion)

  • Richard Perrin (Kairo)

  • Michael Brough (Vesper.5, Corrypt)

  • Robert Yang (creator of Half-Life 2's Radiator mod)

  • Alan Hazelden (These Robotic Hearts of Mine)

  • Benn Powell (RGB)

  • Jake Clover (Sluggish Moors)

  • Micheal "TheBlackMask" Lawrence (Dopterra)

  • Jasper Byrne (Lone Survivor)

Terry came up with the idea after noticing this RPG Maker chain game , and I can only hope that Experiment 12 inspires more developers to give chain development a go.

Thanks, Eurogamer .

Tom Sykes
Tom Sykes

Tom loves exploring in games, whether it’s going the wrong way in a platformer or burgling an apartment in Deus Ex. His favourite game worlds—Stalker, Dark Souls, Thief—have an atmosphere you could wallop with a blackjack. He enjoys horror, adventure, puzzle games and RPGs, and played the Japanese version of Final Fantasy VIII with a translated script he printed off from the internet. Tom has been writing about free games for PC Gamer since 2012. If he were packing for a desert island, he’d take his giant Columbo boxset and a laptop stuffed with PuzzleScript games.