The above trailer has been released for three previously unannounced games coming to Switch on 25h April. Vandals and Type:Rider come from developer Cosmografik while Homo Machina is by Darjeeling.
Coming from first-time Switch publisher ARTE, a cultural organisation that co-produces various artistic interactive works (Bury Me, My Love being another example), the three separate releases have appeared previously on other platforms. Here's a description of each game from the official blurb:
Vandals is a turn-based puzzle game that lets players explore street art, create their own artwork, and evade the authorities. Along the way, players will discover the evolution of street art through the works of 40 real-life, iconic street artists, and learn how they have influenced urban culture in the iconic street art cities Paris, New York, Berlin, Tokyo, and Sao Paulo. The Switch version will introduce an exciting new feature, the ability to spray paint using the Joy-Cons.
Type:Rider is an adventure puzzle game that allows players to discover the history and secrets of fonts and characters. Players must guide two dots through the ages of typographic styles and techniques from the rock paintings of prehistoric times to the fonts we use today. Type:Rider takes players through different levels, collecting letters of the alphabet and solving riddles in a captivating musical and visual environment.
Homo Machina invites players to see inside the human body, as viewed through the unique aesthetic lens of the work of Fritz Kahn. Gameplay is straightforward and intuitive, the player instructing the on-screen staff to oversee the human body’s many and varied functions - from eating and breathing to controlling emotions and monitoring the nervous system. The game illustrates, with charismatic artwork and animation, poetic narration and uplifting music, the beauty of Kahn's enduring imagery.
Type: Rider and Homo Machina will be priced at €3.49 / £3.19 / $2.99 each, with Vandals at the slightly higher €4.49 / £4.09 / $3.99.
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I played Homo Machina on smartphone. It was a nice game but it lasted no more than 25-30 minutes.
No homo tho
Homo Machina looks great
They all look interesting to me
The Vandals portion of the trailer reminds me of “Hitman Go” - but it sounds like there might be more to the game
Homo Machina is a definite at that price. Fritz Kahn is probably the only person to have survived an earthquake by hiding in a sarcophagus. He was an interesting bloke.
@Danjel
I was wondering about the amount of content, because the graphics are all custom made and intricate for a puzzler. Still might get it, seems really interesting!
VERY interesting to see what happens, when a traditional broadcasting network (albeit a public service cultural network like Arte) goes into game publishing.
[adult swim] and Channel 4 have both been giving it a go as well, and the stuff they pick up is VERY unlike the things you can pitch to the big old stocklisted game publishers.
Games coming from Arte?! Now I have seen everything.
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