Seasons After Fall

A game by Swing Swing Submarine for PC, Mac, Linux, PS4, and Xbox One, originally released in 2016.

Seasons After Fall is the tale of a fox - or at least a spirit which has possessed a fox - who must journey through an unknown land, using the power of the seasons to alter the environment. The spirit is brought forth knowing nothing about the world around it, and guided only by a disembodied voice who asks that the spirit seek out four guardians spread across the land, each of which controls one of the four seasons.

Prior to its emergence, the spirit is merely floating in a sea of darkness, passing between wrapped vines and being pushed along by air currents. Upon awakening and listening to the words of the disembodied voice, a fox wanders into the glade, and the voice asks the spirit to lure the fox over to a set of jutting stones. A ritual is performed and the spirit is merged with the fox, allowing the spirit to possess it and take control over its body.

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 2016, Focus Home Interactive, Linux, Mac, PC, PS4, Swing Swing Submarine, Xbox One

Blocks That Matter

A game by Swing Swing Submarine for PC and Xbox 360, originally released in 2011.

Blocks That Matter falls into what has now become a rather broad genre classification; namely, the puzzle-platformer category. Blocks That Matter shares this label with such disparate titles as Braid, Max and the Magic Marker, and Wyv and Keep, while having practically nothing in common with any of them.

The game begins when a pair of game developers is suddenly abducted and taken to a cabin in the woods. The men are named Alexey and Markus, which is a reference to Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris, and Markus Persson, the creator of Minecraft, both of which are block-based games.

Fortunately, the men weren’t really working on a video game at all, but rather a secret project involving the creation of a tiny drilling robot called a Tetrobot (again referencing Tetris, and also describing the robot’s function, as outlined below). They activate the Tetrobot remotely and send it out to find and rescue them. Also during the introductory sequence, the fox from the developer's own Seasons After Fall makes a cameo (see the 2D CRED section below).

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 2011, PC, Swing Swing Submarine, XBLIG, Xbox 360