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#CloneJamCactus and the Wonderful Worlds of Cactusquid

Next up in the #CloneJam series is #CloneJamCactus on Febuary 20-22, featuring Jonatan Söderström!

The Jam!

CloneJamCactus takes place February 20 – 22. As always, the clone jam series focuses on a single developer (or development team). When the jam begins, participants will have about a weekend’s worth of time to create jam games inspired by the featured artist; in this case, Cactusquid!

What’s a Cactusuid?

Rather, who is Cactusuid? Cactusquid is Jonatan Söderström of course!

Wait, you don’t know who Jonatan Söderström is? You’re telling me you’ve never heard of Hot Throttle? Not Psychosomnium either? Nor Mondo Medicals, or Clean Asia!, or even KEYBOARD DRUMSET FUCKING WEREWOLF?

Well then, we have a lot of ground to cover!

Games Games Games

Jonatan Söderström has made a lot of amazing freeware games, more than 45 of them to be exact! His website offers a plethora of strange, interesting interactivity.

That’s a lot to pick from! To help narrow down your selection, I recommend Cactus Arcade, the top offering on his site. It’s a pack of 17 of his best games.

That’s still too much? Fine, here are three Cactusquid games you must experience:

Psychosomnium

Bzzzz, this is a dream game. As in, this game feels like a dream. Beware the magician, and welcome to sleep.

Clean Asia!

In the future, the eyes of all humans leave their bodies and fly to the moon, develop weapons, and attack the human race, capturing several Asian countries, including China, Thailand, and Korea. Humanity sends two blinded pilot brothers, Mickey R. Dole and Mackey I. Dole, who both possess a sixth sense, to defeat the invaders. – Wikipedia

KEYBOARD DRUMSET FUCKING WEREWOLF

I gotta gotta gotta to go to someplace far away. USA.
there I’ll stay til the end of days.

Phewwww, hope some of that helps you with the jam!

The Clone Jam that is. The Cactusquid Clone Jam: ClonejamCactus.

Also, in case you’d like to spread the word through social media, use the hashtag ClonejamCactus to post about the jam!

#clonejam #clonejamcactus #gamejams #cactusquid

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