Some of you known I have a bit of a soft spot for weird and/or trashy games. I doubt it's a surprise to hear I fell in love with the concept of the Egglike almost right away.

The term Egglike was coined by Vinny of the streamer group Vinesauce in 2012 to describe an "ironically shitty' game called The Fantastic Game, which combined Unity's basic FPS controller, assets taken from other games (specifically Super Mario 64), memes, collectathon gameplay (the 'dolla') and word salad dialogue. The result was literally fantastic.

Since this game was pretty quotable it spawned a series of copycats of varying degrees of competency (such as Sanic R, Supa Mayro Krat, Shadow of Shrek all the way up to games that weren't intended to be trash, and instead invoked LSD Dream Emulator, such as Crypt Worlds).

The genre officially "died out" when Fantabuloso decided to parody it while making a competent game, which he called Le Fantabulous Game; LFG expanded on the walking simulator formula with the addition of actual combat and Mario/Banjo style minibosses. The dolla became the 'sausage wiener' and a race of creatures called the Shamrock became the enemy.

These days, Egglikes are polarising, with half of Vinesauce's fanbase writing them off as oversaturated and unfunny, and the other half begging Vinny to play more (and he is notoriously unwilling after the original flood of barely playable trash). Scrib's Adventure is the newest Egglike, taking the previous games as more than just a major influence and building its own universe around the Golden Eggs and the Spoops. Why are they still popular? Probably the unpredictability and the energy behind them. It takes a lot to come up with weird sights and balance them with gameplay.

The problem is, there's not many of them. Not intentional Egglikes, anyway.

I want to see what people with experience in experimental game dev can make using the Egglike aesthetic. The rules are simple: it has to be made on Unity, the gameplay has to include the collection of some sort of item (the more random the better), combat isn't mandatory, and there must be a heavy appropriation of classic video games (music especially), inside jokes and memes. Everything else is entirely up to you.

Popular subjects of meme include Mayro/Mario, Sanic, Danny Devito and Shrek, and while Fantastic and SA are great examples and probably enough to work with, you can check out other confirmed Egglikes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYdTRyEqo_YxE7PfXjNK8Lee4tyT7D7ab

Games made for Expanding the Egglikes

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LORDS of SEX: Neapolitan Museum of Muscle Bods, jacked up dudes and obscenely NATTY curiosities	07/04/2017 - 21:59	joobworld		5
Forest Egg	05/07/2017 - 23:56	mkapolk		10

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dukenukem5.zip

Duke Nukem joins forces with his brother in this sequel to the hit game Duke Nukem Forever. Fend off an alien invasion by moving with the arrow keys and pressing the space bar!

I figured folks here might appreciate the game I worked on for Global Game Jam this year, seeing as it's a microphone-powered rap battle simulator set in NegaTokyo in the year 20FF. It's pretty short. Check it out, and let me know what you think!

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TribePin.zip

So I say to WordRescue, "Let's make a pinball table; it can be about anything you want." Being the massive whole foods hipster that he is, WordRescue comes back with a Tribe Hummus themed table layout. So enjoy.

Enjoy your hummus.

The Klik of the Month Klub meets right here on this very website on the third Saturday of every month at 4pm Pacific Time (taking daylight savings into consideration) for a two hour Klik & Play Showdown. Everyone who participates gets two hours to create something from scratch in Klik & Play. Abusing the stock objects is encouraged. If you really loathe Klik & Play you can use whatever game development platform you want. Two hours is a pretty tight time limit, though, so choose wisely!

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Games made for Klik of the Month Klub #62

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The Alien Encounter	08/24/2012 - 18:41	Smedis2		2
Shellmar's Shellulous Journey	08/22/2012 - 02:37	thesycophant		4
whodaman	08/21/2012 - 14:40	x		1
Saucer Sandy's Moon Escape	08/18/2012 - 21:37	L		1
Do You Have It?	08/10/2012 - 08:33	Smedis2		0
Final Final Final Final Fantasy xii-iii-x-vi-vii-C-x-x: Dawn Of Sorrorow	08/07/2012 - 12:24	Smedis2		0
SimTernet Explorer	08/02/2012 - 19:04	Smedis2		0
Turn On The Wipers	07/28/2012 - 14:52	Smedis2		0
Ninja Klik: A Game by Godfrey Ho!	07/27/2012 - 20:56	Smedis2		6
mastyr of teh inuvares	07/23/2012 - 16:27	Smedis2		0
JUDGMENT DAY	07/23/2012 - 15:35	Smedis2		0

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rhetoricstu - This is not a game.knytt.zip

ceci n'est pas une gaem, ceci est une piece of crap

(not worth downloading, do not play). I was going to include more dialogue but it sucked, oh man did it suck.

oh well here's a video about "blender sux" to sweeten the deal

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/12283986/blender-258-the-truth?listid=24474076

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superextremebirdfrightener.zip

A demonstration of the boid flocking algorithm. And also an excuse to scare birds.

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18boxing.zip

Now you too can live the glory in this unlicensed supersequel to the hit movie Rocky.

A prolonged metaphor.