With a name like Fat Chicken, you’d expect a fun and funny game about portly poultry. But while you’ll find that, and more, in this “reverse tower defense game” — which is now available iOS devices, Macs, PCs, and Linux — in talking to Relevant Games’ Randy Greenback, the game’s senior creative director, it seems there’s a deeper message to this game…and no, it’s not about why you shouldn’t fat shame farm animals.
Originally released in the ’80s as a series of gamebooks, Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! has since made the transition to an interactive fiction game series for iOS devices. With the first installment, “The Shamutani Hills,” now coming to Android, and part 2, “Kharé: Cityport Of Traps,” slated for Spring, Inkle Studios’ Creative Director Jon Ingold discusses what this series is all about, why it’s only now coming to Android devices, and why it won’t be available on the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One anytime soon.