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Wot I Think: Mushroom 11
We’ve been thrilled by the concept behind Mushroom 11 [official site] since it was first shown at 2013’s GDC Experimental Gameplay Workshop. Now the final game is finally with us, out today on Steam. And here’s wot I think.
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Mushroom 11 Sprouts On October 15th
Designer Itay Keren set out to create a game where the character you control never actually moves. The result is Mushroom 11 [official site], a puzzle-platformer about steering a mass of cells through a level by destroying those on one side to cause them to re-grow on the other. The game is now finally being released next month on October 15th – which, it turns out, is National Mushroom Day. Watch the launch trailer below.
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Mushroom 11 Hands-On: The Future Sound Of Fungus
Mushroom 11 is a sort of physics puzzle-platformer about a mutant organism that will always grow back to its original mass, regardless of how much of it you prune away. By doing this, you traverse a ravaged landscape filled with hazards and foes. I played a section of it at EGX last week.
Humongous Fungus: A Mushroom 11 Trailer
The few times Mushroom 11 has popped up on my radar, I really didn’t know what I was looking at. There was some talk about shape-shifting fungus, but it all looked a bit formless in the early tech. A smarter man would use that last sentence as a segue, but I am far too dim to link the phase ‘formless’ and the action in Mushroom 11, where you’re a growing mass of mushroom that you have to trim and shape to move through the levels: each cut and slice allows you to grow on. There’s an interesting little puzzle game in all this, and the trailer has spread below the cut.
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