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'Happy Game' Is Not for the Faint-Hearted

The game focuses on a young boy experiencing a severe nightmare. (Amanita Design)
The game focuses on a young boy experiencing a severe nightmare. (Amanita Design)
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'Happy Game' Is Not for the Faint-Hearted

The game focuses on a young boy experiencing a severe nightmare. (Amanita Design)
The game focuses on a young boy experiencing a severe nightmare. (Amanita Design)

A proverb once said: Never judge a book by its cover. Well, it also applies for video games…You should never judge it by its name because anyone who expects “Happy Game” to be light-hearted fun will be in for a nasty surprise, reported the German news agency.

The game from developer Amanita Design – best known for family-friendly adventures like Machinarium or Samorost – is indeed not a happy game at all, but rather a horror adventure.

The game focuses on a young boy experiencing a severe nightmare. Things he has lost like a ball or a teddy bear suddenly reappear in his nightmare, but to bring them back with him to reality, the boy has to go through absurd adventures and solve disturbing puzzles.

When it comes to the depiction of violence, Happy Game doesn't hold back: blood, dismembered corpses, and even guillotines are all here and the many smiling faces and colorful bunnies do little to change that.

And if the player makes a mistake, they may be sending the young protagonist to the afterlife. The game isn’t suitable for children, but those who like horror and over-the-top violence will likely enjoy themselves. "Happy Game" is available for Windows, and Macs.

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Saudi KAUST’s Center of Excellence for Renewable Energy Advances Energy Innovation

KAUST has leveraged the center’s research to boost energy security, reduce environmental impact, create new job opportunities for youth, and continue advancing education, training, and workforce development. (SPA)
KAUST has leveraged the center’s research to boost energy security, reduce environmental impact, create new job opportunities for youth, and continue advancing education, training, and workforce development. (SPA)
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Saudi KAUST’s Center of Excellence for Renewable Energy Advances Energy Innovation

KAUST has leveraged the center’s research to boost energy security, reduce environmental impact, create new job opportunities for youth, and continue advancing education, training, and workforce development. (SPA)
KAUST has leveraged the center’s research to boost energy security, reduce environmental impact, create new job opportunities for youth, and continue advancing education, training, and workforce development. (SPA)

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), through its Center of Excellence for Renewable Energy and Storage Technologies (CREST), has launched initiatives to support innovation in energy fields, in alignment with the goals of Saudi Vision 2030 to transition toward a knowledge-based economy and build sustainable development.

These efforts include transforming new ideas into practical solutions, developing prototypes of KAUST inventions and ensuring their reliability, and scaling up these prototypes through collaboration with local and international partners, reported the Saudi Press Agency on Monday.

KAUST has leveraged the center’s research to boost energy security, reduce environmental impact, create new job opportunities for youth, and continue advancing education, training, and workforce development.

These steps aim to support and localize renewable energy research, boost academic and industrial collaboration, and position the center as a leading research hub and a preferred destination for students, researchers, and faculty members.

CREST Chair Professor Husam Alshareef stressed that the center’s research, focused on prototype development and technology scaling, enhances energy efficiency, reliability, storage, and sustainability.

Many projects are based on innovative technologies developed at KAUST in cooperation with industrial partners. These include advanced photovoltaic cells and new battery chemistries that reduce cooling requirements and fire risks in harsh conditions, as well as lithium extraction and battery recycling to ensure a stable lithium supply and enhance the Kingdom’s battery sector, he added.

The center conducts research on sustainable cooling technologies aimed at improving the performance of electronic devices such as solar panels and LED lights, thereby extending their lifespan, he went on to say.

Additional research includes storing energy in chemical fuels and generating electricity, testing and modeling energy storage technologies, and integrating them across disciplines within the university by merging research strategies involving experts in chemistry, engineering, and software development, he revealed.