Back in November Double Fine did a crazy thing. Gearing up for its annual Amnesia Fortnight brainstorming activity - in which the studio branches off into small groups for two weeks to create game prototypes - Double Fine invited fans to vote on which game ideas would become prototypes. A week later the winners were announced and those who donated towards the project's Humble Bundle were granted access to the prototypes upon their completion.Now Double Fine is sprucing up this anthology of experimental game prototypes by releasing them all physically as the Amnesia Fortnight Special Edition Box Set for $30.
The two-disc set contains this year's prototypes for Autonomous, a first-person sandbox game in a Tron-like world where players must construct robots to survive; Black Lake, a grim fantasy tale about a hunter's daughter trying to cleanse animals' dreams; Hack 'N' Slash, a puzzle-based dungeon crawler in which you hack the game on the fly; Spacebase DF-9, a space sim in which you build a colony then manage the lives of those who dwell within it; and the White Birch, a mysterious exploration-based platformer about a girl climbing a wall.
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