Children of Morta

While the standard of many Indie games is truly on another level when compared with the formative days of download gaming, there's often a level of deja-vu and familiarity in their appearance. With engines like Unity prominent small developers have a challenge to make their titles look unique; as a result we think it's worth celebrating when a title adopts approaches such as pixel-based visuals, and more importantly does them well.

Children of Morta by Texas-based developer Dead Mage fits the profile, as it incorporates pixel visuals with some lovely animation and effects. The project is a hack 'n slash story-based adventure with a whole family - the Bergsons - available as playable characters, each with their own unique styles and movesets. Throw in roguelike elements with procedural levels and some optional local co-op, and there are the foundations of a positive project.

It's coming to the Wii U, too, having sailed passed its Kickstarter target of $65,000 and surpassing the $100,000 stretch goal for Nintendo's system. As it looks so stylish and promises depth and substance to match, we're rather looking forward to watching this progress in 2015.

You can see the Kickstarter pitch below; will you be keeping an eye out for this one on Wii U?

[source kickstarter.com, via nintendoeverything.com]