For most, weekends means two days off work with some much-needed R&R. But for game developers, it’s also a time during which they get to show off what they’ve been working on. I am of course referring to Screenshot Saturday, which involves tweeting screenshots with the #ScreenshotSaturday hashtag. Screenshots which I will be critiquing some of every single Tuesday, in Speculating Screenshots.
Different screenshots from different developers, all working on different games. Some are very much a WIP, while other are from titles rapidly approaching release. These tweets do all have one thing they in common though, which is that they feature actual screenshots (or at the very least, mockups), animated or stills.
#1gam #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #dungeonofawesome quite happy with my progress this weekend pic.twitter.com/6btCvW22zb
— sP0CkEr2 (@sP0CkEr2) November 16, 2015
But will it be… awesome?
Stunning PC adventure: https://t.co/MKMEe96Yzk #art #gameart #screenshotsaturday #illustration #animation #indiedev pic.twitter.com/6JCjNb6dC4
— SteveTagger 🔜 Home (@itstagger) November 14, 2015
Stunning? No kidding!
Here's our Bat Puppet, in full flight! Ah, but can it be trusted? Is it friend or foe? #ScreenshotSaturday pic.twitter.com/95M6Giobj2
— FlatterThanEarth (@FlatterThan) November 15, 2015
Foe. Definitely foe. It’s a bat…
After a storm, the sun will rise. #thelongdark #screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/DVvD1T4HFm
— Hinterland (@HinterlandGames) November 14, 2015
Run rabbit, run!
WIP of main char: Helmsman. something about him… What do you think? #screenshotsaturday https://t.co/4MKexto06e pic.twitter.com/flbF2Wvw8F
— Rik Alexander (@rik_alexander) November 14, 2015
Quite a drunk helmsman. Either that or an invisible ship.