Разработчик: Them Games
Описание
A simple gameplay (press 4 keys to catch incoming shapes from the four corners of your screen) allows for a meditative Explore mode in which you play along the music you compose and a more survival-focused Exploit mode in which you try to hold-on to your lives as the game gets progressively harder.
Making it up
The game is entirely crafted and animated by hand using traditional stop motion animation techniques, giving a fragile and delicate feel to this musical experience.Don’t let yourself be tricked though, Exploit mode gets hellishly difficult!
The game is an updated version of a museum exhibition prototype we made in 2011 and features a lengthy making of, packed with gorgeous photographs of the crafting of all our set pieces and art research, music composition captioned with insights into every step of the two year project.
Key Features
- Try to catch the shapes coming at you from all four corners of your screen!
- Shape the musical landscapes you explore and experience, expressing your intent through play.
- Run for high score or survive as long as possible, while the game gets increasingly harder.
- All animations and sets are handcrafted from real materials, photographed and animated in stop-motion.
- Music loops and complete tracks were composed and recorded according to the unique gameplay.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP
- Processor: 1.5GHz
- Memory: 666 MB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 200 MB available space
- Sound Card: Integrated
- Additional Notes: We also require headphones
Mac
- OS: Mac OS X 10.6
- Processor: 1.5GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: iGraphics
- Storage: 250 MB available space
- Sound Card: iMusic
- Additional Notes: Please use iBuds
Linux
- OS: Your preferred distro with a GUI
- Processor: 1.5GHz
- Memory: 1337 MB RAM
- Graphics: sudo apt-get install drivers
- Storage: 250 MB available space
- Sound Card: Darude - Sandstorm
- Additional Notes: Please use open source headphones
Отзывы пользователей
Wonderfully weird rythm game with an absolutely astonishing stop motion look. Takes some getting used to but once you start learning to parse the game area, getting into a perfect flow is an amazingly meditative experience.
Highly addictive, hectic andfun, inSynch is the puzzle game that masquerades as a rhythm game. You hit four keys to bump four different blocks into a pit to make the level's song grow and transform into the full song, and that's about it!
Timing is absolutely key.
This game is utterly abstract, and everything in it is real. That's the impression inSynch provides in every way. I used to disdain rhythm games. That was before I realized they were art, or should aspire to be. This game achieves that completely.
The stop-motion animation gives much more "motion" than "stop". It's a funny feeling seeing a photograph move. The pixellation, blockiness and glitchy artifacts of digital graphics that I have trained my brain not to even *notice* in most other games, because they're so ubiquitous? They're completely absent here. It's the visual equivalent of listening to electronic music when someone begins playing a woodwind behind your head.
Speaking of music, the music in this game has a very similar effect to the visual fluidity and verisimilitude that went into the visual animations. There are electronic noises and the sounds of sticks being hit together, and I think that was two glasses of wine tinking together in a toast. And somehow, no matter how your gameplay affects the music (and it does), the overall composition remains interesting and very cool.
There's a mode where you play just for fun, without penalty for misses, and without really too much emphasis on score -- in fact, it's the only mode available when you begin. And the effect is just that -- fun. Hell, the pieces you're interacting with dance for you in ways that can only be described as playful to the point of ecstatic.
InSynch was first released in an art gallery, and it shows. It's a beautiful, playful, and engaging piece of interactive art. Well worth the purchase price, if only to support people who might put more things like this into our world.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Them Games |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 20.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 100% положительных (3) |