One of the things PAX is always home to is their “PAX Rising Showcase.” Though quite a lot of PAX is always comprised of indie titles (and I love it for that), these are special projects with small development teams that “stood out” for the curation team at PAX. And every time PAX rolls around, I end up spending a lot of time there.
This year, at the PAX Rising Showcase, I spent far too long breaking an egg.
That is because I was obsessively playing Fowl Damage, the new game from Itch.io master and occasional Peglin artist and developer May Gardens. In it, you play as a small egg, and you must roll through a strange factory without breaking. The catch? Eggs are fragile, and the height which you can jump is high enough that you can break from it.
It is hard for me to put into words how much I love a simple concept perfectly hatched, and Fowl Damage is that. The game takes the classic precision platformer formula that fuels everything from Mega-man to Celeste, and adds in an element that limits its most basic movement element. And you know what they say: limitation always breeds...
