By Jim Rossignol on September 22nd, 2009 at 10:52 am.
Italian indies Flowfase have released a demo of their ambient puzzle game, Particle. It seems to lack any kind of instructions, but from what I can see you are a tiny particle that is able to collect the colour of other particles and use them to set off triggers across each level. Set off all triggers and you’re able to move to the next arena. It’s all very simplistic, but the puzzles do actually require some examination to get through, and it’s remarkably trippy, at least in my pre-tea just-woke-up state of early morning blogging. Go take a look.
22/09/2009 at 11:14 Cutman says:
Did screw up, or is this only three puzzles long? The third puzzle being in quotes of course. I’ll say it is quite trippy. At the end of the second puzzle I caught myself staring at the screen for a lost amount of time. I will say that controlling your particle with the mouse alone was a lot trickier than I thought it’d be.
22/09/2009 at 12:03 Jim Rossignol says:
It’s just a demo, so I’d say three puzzles.
22/09/2009 at 12:59 Cutman says:
Oh right, a demo. That’d explain things.
22/09/2009 at 16:01 Cutman says:
Awww, no need to amend the title for me. I was half asleep at the time of playing the game/posting! I swear!
22/09/2009 at 12:56 Mike says:
Just ran through that. Quite nice – I think the lack of instructions is intentional? I don’t know. If it isn’t, it should be, because learning how to use the controls is lovely.
22/09/2009 at 14:42 Luke says:
With refined presentation, may be better.
22/09/2009 at 17:59 RC-1290'Dreadnought' says:
It’s a trip. A good one.
22/09/2009 at 19:47 TRJP says:
Nice idea but a BIT too obtuse at first and that 3rd level is just ‘whoa’…
25/09/2009 at 19:33 Crescent says:
I find it funny how the third level essentially finishes itself for you, you can just sit back and enjoy the show :D
I really like the ambient feeling of it, too bad it’s so short.
03/10/2009 at 10:42 abc says:
Can anybody help me, I can’t get how to play it? I get 2 blue streams flowing and there is blue particle. I catch it, change to blue, another blue particle appear, but nothing happen.
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