The game, while constructed as a point-and-click adventure with the “old school” in mind, will be using an entirely unique form of graphical appeal: stop motion. Starring the titular tough guy Jack Jouston, it’s up to you to discover the secrets behind the mysterious beasts of Venus, including their ability to animate the dead. “This is the world of adventure imagined and glorified in sci-fi magazines and novels of the 40’s and 50’s.” “This Venus is a sweltering vine jungle teaming with strange beasts of horn, tooth and claw,” announces Warbird Games. Jack Houston and the Necronautsis an upcoming Kickstarter project that’s nearing a launch of its own, and it aims to capture the glorious essence of old-time pulp sci-fi serials. While today we now know that any possibility of life on Mars would only be in the form of microscopic organisms, we can’t rule out Venus, right?Īlright, pretend that we also don’t know anything about life on Venus, either. Dreamers of the past predicted vast worlds full of intelligent (and occasionally grotesque) extraterrestrial life. While the real-life landing of the 2000-pound rover Curiousity on Mars this morning definitely seems like science fiction now, it’s a fun experiment to go back in time and see what our forefathers thought we might have encountered within the far reaches of outer space.
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