The Melon Game Jam started out as an inside joke among the game developers who attended A MAZE 2016 and became a delicious reality one year later, producing watermelon-themed video games for a fruit hungry world.
But one standout title from the Melon Jam actually uses a watermelon as a controller- ‘The Story of The Revolutionary Watermelon That Wanted To Live Free as a Bird and Learned How To Escape’ by SpaceBackyard.
This crazy strange game stars a sentient watermelon who tries to escape its fruity fate by hopping to freedom, which usually doesn’t end well for the watermelon:
The music and sound design is ominous and your efforts are mostly futile, sort of like if you replaced the protagonist in one of Playdead’s game’s with a watermelon; Limbo but for sentient produce.
All you can do as the watermelon is hop, and roll where you will, but the…
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