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SOLAS 128 – Accessibility Update

SOLAS 128, the critically-acclaimed synthwave reflect-em-up puzzle game from Amicable Animbal, has received a significant accessibility update for both the PC and Nintendo Switch, to coincide with Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD). The update improves the game for players with visual impairment, colour-blindness, and physical disabilities. To help visually-impaired players, SOLAS 128…

Amicable Animal, the indie studio behind SOLAS 128 won the GAMES category at the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2021.

SOLAS 128 the synthwave-suffused light-pulsing puzzle game from Amicable Animal, was awarded the GAMES trophy, at the glittering star-studded BAFTA Scotland Awards 2021 ceremony this weekend, fighting off competition from fellow developers Blazing Griffin (nominated for Murder Mystery Machine) and Bitloom (PHOGS). https://twitter.com/BAFTAScotland/status/1462101214242484225 Tom Methven, the…

Amicable Animal on SOLAS 128

Last week saw the release of SOLAS 128, a unique and engrossing beat-driven puzzle game from Edinburgh-based developer Amicable Animal AKA Tom Methven. Maybe you’ve already had a chance to check it out for yourself, in which case you don’t need us to tell you how great it is. If not though, perhaps our chat with Methven will convince you.  SOLAS 128’s combination of light bending mechanic with…

OUT NOW: SOLAS 128 - Imagine if Zelda dungeons looked like Geometry Wars and sounded like Rez and you’d have at least some idea of what it’s like to play SOLAS 128, the new synthwave puzzle game from Edinburgh-based indie developer Amicable Animal

Imagine if Zelda dungeons looked like Geometry Wars and sounded like Rez and you’d have at least some idea of what it’s like to play SOLAS 128, the new synthwave puzzle game from Edinburgh-based indie developer Amicable Animal OUT NOW for PC and Nintendo Switch.  In SOLAS 128, players explore the complicated, interconnected circuitry of a mysterious machine by redirecting beams of light in an…

Out Now: SOLAS Prologue. The UK Game of the Show nominated synthwave puzzler now has a brand new (free) demo available on Steam.

Play the SOLAS prologue. The light bouncing, pulse shifting, synthwave puzzle game (which was nominee in the UK game of the Show competition), now has a free playable demo.

Amicable Animal, the team behind the game has been hard at work over the last few days creating a demo for the game. Not just any demo, but a prologue. A whole new set of levels, so you can play the game, without spoiling…

Two Scottish Games Nominated for UK Awards

Two Scottish developers – Amicable Animal and Junkfish have had games nominated in the UK Game of the Show award, which takes place at this year’s Gamescom event.

They take their place alongside titles such as Dirt 5, from the legendary Codemasters and developers such as UsTwo, the company behind the multiple award-winning Monument Valley.

The nominated games are SOLAS, Amicable Animal’s…