Dunkey\u2019s publishing company Bigmode reveals first game, Animal Well Four months after Dunkey announced his indie publishing company, Bigmode has revealed its first title \u2013 Animal Well \u2013 which will be playable later this year. On September 21, 2022, Dunkey published one of his most controversial videos to date: the announcement video for his indie publishing company, Bigmode. While harmless at first glance, publishers and developers took offense as the YouTuber promised to only publish \u201cgood games\u201d with no prior experience in the industry. That being said, his fans and biggest critics have been waiting to hear what would come from the critical content creator\u2019s company. Especially with Bigmode boasting that it\u2019s being supported by funding, development support, PR & community management, QA, porting & localization, and merchandising. Now, Bigmode has revealed its first title \u2013 Animal Well \u2013 a visually stunning puzzle platformer with unsettling horror elements. Bigmode announces first game, Animal Well On January 8, Bigmode announced Animal Well, described as \u201cA pixelated wonder rendered in intricate audio and visual detail.\u201d Animal Well is a solo project from sole developer Billy Basso, who has worked on the game for the last five years. Animal Well aims to take mechanics from survival horror games and implement them into a different genre. The title offers a mix of genres, including Puzzle, Horror, Platformer, Metroidvania, and Open Well. An official press release claims the player\u2019s goal in Animal Well is to unravel the secrets of the well as they discover lively creatures. Basso\u2019s hope is that the game won\u2019t depend on content updates but will instead be \u201cpre-loaded with secrets that may take years to uncover \u2014 giving you a reason to return to it after it\u2019s been sitting on your shelf.\u201d Animal Well does not have a release date, but it will be playable at PAX East 2023. It is planned to release on PC via Steam, as well as on PlayStation 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dunkey\u2019s publishing company Bigmode reveals first game, Animal Well Four months after Dunkey announced his indie publishing company, Bigmode has revealed its first title \u2013 Animal Well \u2013 which will be playable later this year. On September 21, 2022, Dunkey published one of his most controversial videos to date: the announcement video for his indie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}