By Jim Rossignol on August 29th, 2012 at 3:00 pm.
John spotted Tengami amid the pixellated throng of the Indiecade finalists, and wished for a PC version. His has wish has been granted by the spirits of the internet, with PC and Mac version arriving in due course following the iPad release. But what is it? Developers Nyamyam explain: “In Tengami you explore a beautifully paper architected pop-up world, with an art style inspired by traditional Japanese arts and crafts. Tengami is an adventure game, full of wonder and mystery, set in Japan of ancient dark fairy tales.”
It sure looks lovely, and that pop-up visual is just startling. Beautiful. It’ll probably make John cry or something, which can only be a good thing. Take a look at the trailer below. No, really, take a look.
29/08/2012 at 15:04 Greggh says:
Not sure if it’s actually unique or just a mash-up of a lot of other games… Guess we’ll see :D
29/08/2012 at 15:49 MadTinkerer says:
Seems like it’s a bit:
a) Paper Mario
b) Zelda
c) Okami
d) One of those flash games where it’s mostly just moving through the environment for a few minutes with a little interaction based on the author’s thesis.
Since none of those are bad things, I’m sold.
29/08/2012 at 15:12 AmateurScience says:
I like the look of that. Very nice indeed!
29/08/2012 at 15:21 golem09 says:
Needs Oculus Rift support.
29/08/2012 at 15:29 brau says:
is it an intricate story like Sword and Sworcery? I like the art… but i didn’t see anything else that catched my attention.
29/08/2012 at 15:47 Jesse L says:
Sometimes the art is enough. Wow.
29/08/2012 at 15:40 elderman says:
Pretty game! Come to Linux boy, come! Come on! Good boy…
29/08/2012 at 15:50 int says:
I have always been afraid of pop-up books. I wonder if I will be afraid of one such game.
29/08/2012 at 21:09 vivlo says:
Some say that, as a kid, it’s what shocks you the most that learns you the most
01/09/2012 at 04:32 Razumen says:
“Learns you the most”???
Doesn’t sound like that happened at all. :P
29/08/2012 at 20:32 Dances to Podcasts says:
At first I was, like, that walking animation is a bit crap, and is he just going to walk from left to right and then it did the folding thing and I was, like, HOLY CRAP!
29/08/2012 at 21:33 linzhanfn says:
http://clxu.eu/j138
29/08/2012 at 21:43 Zaxwerks says:
This looks beautiful. My only nit-pick would be that the animated characters need to cast/receive shadows and lighting on/from the environment as they have an element of being animated stickers on the screen rather than being part of the scene. Also the popping into and out of existence is jarring, maybe a nice quick origami folding away and back again.
Can wait for its release though.