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Dyson (Nothing To Do With Vacuum Cleaners)

Posted by Jim Rossignol on June 7th, 2008 at 8:38 pm.

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Dyson, by Alex May, Rudolf Kremers, and Brian Grainger, seems to have rounded off an oddly vacuum-cleaner themed evening that I’ve had, here at RPS Country Retreat (as my new abode will henceforth be known). It’s nothing to do with vacuum cleaners, of course, it just happens to share its name with a popular brand of sucking appliance.

In fact Dyson is a wonderful ambient strategy in which you conquer an abstract asteroid belt with the seed-ships which emerge from the trees that you grow on the surface of the asteroids you conquer… still with me? Okay then. It’s beautiful: soft yet strategic, fierce yet calm. Sending out swarms of seeds to battle with AI-controlled asteroid populations is weird enough to stimulate the tired old skull-glands, and simplistic enough be completely engrossing. It seems like a bit of a work in progress, but if you don’t play anything else in the next week, you should probably play this.

I found Dyson, of course, via the incomparably excellent Indiegames.com.

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53 Comments »

  1. Kadayi says:

    Heh recently found this on my HD, have to say very addictive. Good find.

  2. solos says:

    Great game, just won my third game. When i worked out that getting as mant asteroids as you can at the start really helps, completed it in about 20 minutes. got all my seeds on 8 asteroids, got 6 trees on every one too. Brilliant yet simple game. Only dowside is only one map. Apart from that its great.

  3. Claiscifs says:

    Чего и следовало ожидать, хозяин сайта нетипично накропал!

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