Do you hate your job? Is your boss a jerk? Are you an elephant on roller skates?!

Every year, the DePaul University Game Dev Program chooses a set of students to create an entry for the Independent Games Festival, and the results are usually impressive (see last year's entry Octodad). This year, the anthropomorphic-loving crew is back with Groovy Tuesday, in which you guide an roller-skating elephant on his quest to funkify his office--including furniture, lights, and coworkers--by tossing "plugmen" into heretofore unconnected music devices.

Nice plaid pants ... now go get that plugman!

Still under development, the 0.9 version of Groovy Tuesday offers up one short level of rather psychedelic yet simplistic gameplay. Think: the prince from Katamari Damacy plunked into the world of Psychonauts where he must summon Parappa the Rapper into existence. Or something like that.

Meet your hero

Basically you cruise around your office behind a roller-skating elephant in a third-person, over-the-shoulder (or rather, behind the red plaid pants) perspective, picking up the aforementioned plugmen (these are the guys who l... [Read more]