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Hollow and Rotten
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/27/2021
Back in 2017, a new Dutch Indie startup calling themselves Twirlbound launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund an ambitious new game development project, which would be published by Kongregate (you know, the Flash/browser game guys). The Kickstarter succeeded, though not by nearly as massive margins as other Indie darlings both before and since, reaching 121,000/100,000 Euros – that is to say, a shoestring budget.
The game in question, “Pine,” first caught my interest around the time of its crowdfunding campaign, as it promised to be a novel blend of genres, namely Action/Adventure and City-Building Sim. In the halcyon days of my youth, I remember being blown away by the handful of SNES titles that endeavored to do the same, using the dominant Action game genre of their …
