MACHINARIUM: A new flash game from the creators of the cult fave SAMOROST

A few years ago, Amanita Design (a game developer company in the Czech Republic) earned a big cult following with Jakub Dvorsky's adorable, surreal and visually gorgeous flash games Samorost and Samorost 2. (If you've never explored the Samorost universe, you have to forget about whatever the heck you were planning for the next hour or two and get clicking right now.) The games follow a little, pajama-clad man as he wanders around strange planetoids having adventures, with the visuals realized through an effective combo of 2D cartooning and detailed, miniature landscapes and props. I'm not a big fan of point-and-clicks, but the Samorost games are really superb time-wasters.

I am delighted to report that later this year Amanita will release a new Dvorsky game, a streampunkish little robot adventure called Machinarium. There's a clip of some gameplay footage below. The folks at the Adventure Gamers site also got to try a hands-on preview, and their report makes the game sound very promising.

Machinarium Preview 02 from Amanita Design on Vimeo.

(Big thanks to Monsters and Rockets reader Alex Majorko for the tip!)

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