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.
Experimenting a bit with some new world concepts. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/0kV91xomp2
— Mark Mayers (@DesolusDev) December 13, 2015
Man, if only that was the view outside right now, instead of freezing rain. Also, looking good!
A new screenshot from the forest area. #screenshotsaturday #pixelart pic.twitter.com/0m3aRkJPic
— Elias Frost (@TheEliasFrost) December 12, 2015
That tree on the right sure got its… wood… in a twist? No? Aw.
https://twitter.com/jessefreeman/status/675706617774542848
Anyone else miss the days when an entire castle (or town) only took up a single square?
#screenshotsaturday TC3 https://t.co/ZlAVY24zZJ pic.twitter.com/3HWnuJmblw
— The Voxel Agents (@TheVoxelAgents) December 12, 2015
Three colors, three trains, multiple tracks – trainwreck in the making, and don’t you dare stop me!
Like all of @squiddershins' work, Tick Tock Isle looks adorable. #screenshotsaturday https://t.co/oj70qj9WAC pic.twitter.com/58rdqtWq0x
— Joel Couture (@Joel_Couture) December 13, 2015
The squid king is dead! Long live the squid king.
Storage room in the basement. #indiedev #gaming #gamedev #videogames #screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/HSMsGJM1vC
— Triplebrick (@TripleBrick) December 12, 2015
Storage? Looks more like the home of a particularly nasty ghost to me.
Our belated #screenshotsaturday (too busy preparing for #Insomnia56 !) – Gaze has a bad feeling about this place… pic.twitter.com/MTv772HRVY
— Perpetual Night (@studio_genkan) December 14, 2015
Gaze needs to quit being such a baby and walk through that doorway already. What could possibly go wrong?
The finished animated loading screen for my current project, #ItCameFromTheComputer #screenshotsaturday #indiedev pic.twitter.com/rq1v1OtI5p
— Red Tie Games (@RedTieGames) December 13, 2015
A loading screen for Speculating Screenshots? Well, this one is… hypnotizing!
