DEAD PIXELS: FLORIAN HUFSKY’S MICRO/MASSIVE WARGAME PUIT WARS

Like Alpinist, one indie development I’ve been keeping a very quiet but steady eye on is Florian ‘1000points’ Hufsky’s micro-skirmish blowout Puit Wars, which he succinctly and comprehensively describes as a “world-exploration story-driven arcade-action-platformer rts-townbuilding and space-exploration game.” Something for everyone, then.

Do I have any grasp of what’s going on in that video above? Not especially, and yet, with every passing in-progress screenshot posted to Hufsky’s work blog, I find myself minding less and less, and am incrementally more willing to put my trust in his pixel-sculpting hands. It helps that Hufsky is co-developer of the widely ported (and wildly IP confounding) four-player party game Super Mario Wars — it also helps that Hufsky realizes, as I’ve suspected all along, that Aesop Rock should be scoring many, many more games (Fight Night 4 aside).