The Spicy Meatball Saves The Day is a lightly comedic adventure, in which players take on the role of a superhero who gets distracted by a house fire on their way home from fighting crime (trailer).
This game uses a game engine I’ve been making called Icicle, which presents text descriptions of scenes and objects as players “look” around a scene using FPS style camera controls. In addition to a compass and vertical orientation indicator, background tinting and positional audio provide orientation cues.
I initially created The Spicy Meatball Saves The Day as a last-minute entry to the Linux Game Jam earlier this year, but today re-launched it with new audio, gamepad support, improved keyboard controls and lots of bug fixes (dev blog post).
Gameplay can take a little to get used to (definitely start with the in-game “readme”!), and the engine is still in-development, but I think it’s providing some fun experiences already. If anybody checks it out, I’d love to hear your thoughts