Zineth

Zineth is a 3D skating freeware indie video game developed by independent developer Arcane Kids for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh PCs.[1]

Zineth
Developer(s)Arcane Kids
Publisher(s)Arcane Kids
EngineUnity
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, MacOS
Release2012
Mode(s)Single-player

Development and history

Zineth originally began development as a student thesis project in experimental game design at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,[2] worked on by a team of 7 developers. Co-creator Jacob Knipfing cited inspiration from many Dreamcast games such as Jet Set Radio and Rez.[2]

It began development in late March 2012, and was later released in early August of that year.[3] Described as "a student game made over a few months meant to celebrate speed, movement, and twitter,"[4] it has the player traverse through various environments at high speeds, all the while completing missions provided by other characters in order to earn cash. A cell phone is consistently present on the player's screen and incorporated into the game, used to receive missions as well as play other games contained within the phone, with inspiration taken from free-to-play Flash games and RPGs.[2] Twitter is also prominently featured as an aspect; players can use it to take in-game pictures using the phone and tweet them.

The game's title is a play-on words of the terms "zine" (short for magazine) and "zenith".[5]

Gameplay

Zineth takes place in a dystopian future in which the entire world has been "absorbed by a mobile game", resulting in the brainwashing of all of its inhabitants. The player controls a magazine deliverer who must deliver "'zines" to people in order to show them what real life is like.[6]

gollark: "Losing money"? Really?
gollark: I buy at 0.5KST per iron ingot and sell at 0.55.
gollark: The sell shop, I mean.
gollark: @SolarFlame5 Yes, it is ridiculous.
gollark: Well, digital signing (ECDSA) fits more.

References
  1. "IndieGames.com Freeware Game Pick: Zineth (Arcane Kids)". indiegames.com. 2012-08-13.
  2. "Zineth: A colorful celebration of speed, motion, Twitter and cell phone obsession". polygon.com. 2013-03-15.
  3. Polson, John. "Road to the IGF: Arcane Kids' Zineth". gamasutra.com.
  4. "Free cel-shaded pop art skating game Zineth is absolutely insane". eurogamer.net. 2012-08-11.
  5. "Asher Penn". asherpenn.com.
  6. "'Zines, Screens, and All In-Betweens - Unity". Unity.


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