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"We’re nearing the end of our series of posts about the winners of this year’s
public domain game jam,
Gaming Like It’s 1929! We’ve already covered the Best
Remix, Best Deep Cut, Best Visuals, Best Adaptation, and the honorable
mentions, and this week we’re looking at the winner of Best Digital Game:
Cocoanut Hotel by Geoffrey Golden & G.C. Katz.
1929 was the year the Marx Brothers made their film debut in
The Cocoanuts, a
movie where they ostensibly run a resort hotel but mostly just engage in their
regular antics.
Cocoanut Hotel adapts this career turning point for the famed
comedians in both content and spirit, turning it into (what else?) a
full-fledged hotel management sim. Just as in the original, the story (and now
the mechanics) primarily serve as a vehicle for the comedy, resulting in a game
that’s both fun to play and filled with entertaining material from start to
finish."
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
