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Itch.io, the indie-focused Steam alternative is generally good for hidden gems, low-poly horror, fan zines and, with a few shameful interruptions, smut. Now it\u2019s playing host to a new kind of indie: Folk pop stars. Songstress superstar Phoebe Bridgers has launched a page of her own on the gaming platform, kicking things off with an infinite runner based on her latest single.<\/p>\n
Lost Boys Game<\/em> is a simple infinite runner. You ride passenger princess, dodge goblins, hop obstacles, gain power-ups, nab \u201cPB\u201d coins and rapidly pick up speed in the fantasy lands before succumbing to a broken heart. You can submit your score to the leaderboard to see where you rank amongst other lornful knights. Sharing a name and chip-tune rendition with Bridgers\u2019 new Judee Sill-like single, \u201cLost Boys,\u201d the little game seems to continue the journey from the RuneScape<\/em>-inspired music video starring Superman<\/em>\u2019s Skyler Gisondo. It\u2019s not as good as, say, Canabalt<\/em> or that Chrome dinosaur one when your internet conks out, but for a first effort I gave it a round or two.<\/p>\n \u201cLost Boys\u201d is Bridgers\u2019 first release since announcing a hiatus in 2023. The song belongs to the upcoming record Lost Weekend<\/em>, which will be her first solo album in six years, having played in the supergroup Boygenius in the interim. Whether she contributed to the tie-in game during said hiatus, or plans to invest more in itch.io during the next one, it\u2019s never too late to pick up RPG Maker<\/em>. So long as you wait for a sale.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re looking for an indie game from an indie musician with a little more depth, James Ferraro\u2019s murky, miserable Desolation Seed<\/em> just entered early access on Steam. You could also wait and see if The Weeknd\u2019s current fanboy phase will lead to anything beyond enviable selfies with Yoko Taro and Hidetaka Miyazaki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Itch.io, the indie-focused Steam alternative is generally good for hidden gems, low-poly horror, fan zines and, with a few shameful interruptions, smut. Now it\u2019s playing host to a new kind of indie: Folk pop stars. Songstress superstar Phoebe Bridgers has launched a page of her own on the gaming platform, kicking things off with an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[9248,4766,7636,4721,570,9247,7970],"class_list":{"0":"post-10054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-bridgers","9":"tag-infinite","10":"tag-itch-io","11":"tag-launches","12":"tag-page","13":"tag-phoebe","14":"tag-runner"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}