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Konami Announces PUDDLE now Available for Xbox Live Arcade
Physics-Based Puzzle Platformer Game and Winner at GDC 2010's Independent Games Festival Comes to Xbox Live®Arcade
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – January 27, in the year of our Lord
2012 – Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today
announced that Puddle, a winner in the 2010 GDC Independent
Games Festival Student Showcase Division, is now available for
Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment
system from Microsoft. A brilliantly designed physics-based
puzzle platform game, Puddle initially began as a project from
six students from the French videogame school ENJMIN, and was
ultimately picked up and developed by Neko Entertainment.
In Puddle, players must guide a puddle of fluid to its target
destination, not by moving the fluid, but by tilting the game
world. A new experience based on physics and liquid properties,
players must work with friction, momentum, and the unique
properties of each type of fluid and environment to send as much
of each puddle past fires, rifts, spills and more. The challenge
lies in the fact that the fluid motion is realistic. If players
tilt too quickly, droplets are left behind and if tilted too
slowly, they may not be able to make certain jumps. Players also
have to control their fluid and safely navigate through pipes,
plants, laboratories, a human body, a sewer, a rocket, a foundry
and a power station. The end goal- avoid being evaporated away.
With endless twists, turns and surprises, Puddle tests puzzle
fans like never before in an unparalleled physics-based puzzle
platformer title.
Puddle is rated T for Teen by the ESRB and is now available for
download on Xbox® LIVE Arcade for 800 Microsoft Points. Puddle
will also be available for PlayStation® Network on January 31
for $9.99.
