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Why settle for reality when you can play in worlds of infinitely more possibilities? Animation may whisk you away to surprising realms, but games let you live in them. At this year's festival, we've got interactive adventures for everyone - whether you're a button-mashing beginner or a battle-hardened pro. So, power up, press start, and game on!
You find yourself in an abandoned, creepy-looking arcade. By playing a stealth shooter roguelite machine, you can earn the tickets you need to free a mysteriously grinning virtual pet – yes, of course that’s a good idea! In the meantime, each ticket you claim brings you closer to discovering the true, dark reason for the arcade’s existence.
In this absurdist comedy game, you run around a Scottish village as a piece of bread with legs. Encounter the people of the village and collect socks to help you escape without being eaten, whilst maybe getting involved in a bit of mischief along the way.
Poco, the world’s smallest clown, has been banished from the circus and finds themself in a mysterious undergrowth full of lost and broken things. Explore, meet strange creatures, solve puzzles, and help Poco return to the circus. This charming point-and-click adventure features wonderfully cartoony 3D character animation against richly painted 2D backgrounds.
How can we regain control over our online privacy? Can we stem the flood of AI-generated content? This interactive choose-your-own-adventure novel explores how hacking could be the answer. Using retro computer graphics, an 8-bit soundtrack, three unique characters and an office setting, you are invited to explore the moral complexities of modern-day activism.
Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. In this strategic mix of juicy tower loadouts, monsters with all kinds of different behaviours (demanding different combat strategies), and forgiving mechanics leaving room for experimentation, you’re putting up defence towers against monstrous attackers, while simultaneously acquiring new juice.
A magical action roguelite, set in a world where every ‘physically simulated’ pixel individually behaves like, for example, water, fire or rock. Fight, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you’ve crafted yourself. From coal mines to freezing wastelands, always in search of unknown mysteries.
A fresh perspective on the iconic geometric puzzle gameplay we all know and love: instead of simply clearing lines, you’ll be thoughtfully building a realm using pieces of various shapes and types to overcome enemy challenges. Featuring elegant art direction and a catchy soundtrack.
In this hand-painted puzzle-adventure game, you explore the life of beloved French painter Claude Monet. You’ll complete puzzles based upon physics, space, and colour, and assist one of the pioneers of Impressionism as he perseveres through personal hardship, loss, and health difficulties. All set literally inside the master’s eye.
In this game you’re transforming a barren, lifeless landscape into a thriving, vibrant ecosystem. Turn dead soil into fertile grassland, clean polluted oceans, plant sprawling forests, and create the ideal habitat for animals to call home. Then recycle your buildings and leave no trace that you were there. Reclaim the wasteland!
In this tense tactical auto battler you remotely command an elite squad, deep within the war zones of Xenowarfare. From several computer screens, you’ll see the layout of the vast facilities your units traverse, directing them to search, recover and destroy the Alien-like threat. Give the command, and lead the purge!
Words, typed or spoken, control everything in this bizarre, black-and-white dungeon-crawling adventure. You guide four heroes of yore, brought back from the dead by the titular necromancer, through underground catacombs and the buried strata of the city above. Passing through the gloomy Bonehouses, the mysterious Sunken Sea and the freakish Downwood.
A cyberpunk narrative experience with cinematic pixel art, about fate and happiness, featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone, all to take down a corporate conspiracy. As a clandestine barkeeper, a hacker and a rogue empathy android, you’ll fight against the planned erasure of negative emotions.
High-speed, third-person running game with addictive gameplay, set in a collapsing universe. As the anime-inspired Zoe, you race through a variety of procedurally generated worlds, soar through the air, master your movement – landing perfectly on those downward slopes – and use items and abilities to complete levels before they fall apart. You never give up!
Kaboom Animation Festival is the one-stop-shop for the latest and greatest in all things animated. Ranging from cutting-edge experimental arthouse to colorful stories for families and kids, Kaboom will cater to the animation needs of all. Yes, even yours, my amazing weirdo friend!
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