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Strange Loop Games Announces Ship Date for Vessel
SEATTLE - JANUARY 19, in the year of our Lord 2011
- Independent developer Strange Loop Games, in collaboration
with indiePub, today announced plans to release its
groundbreaking liquid physics puzzle game Vessel on PC March 1,
through digital distribution platforms including Steam and
StrangeLoopGames.com. A finalist in both the 13th Annual
Independent Game Festival and the 2010 Indie Game Challenge,
Vessel allows players to solve puzzles by bringing to life
physically-simulated liquid (water, lava, glowing goo, chemicals
and more) and animating it into living machines called Fluros.
Using the innovative Vessel engine, these liquid creatures
demonstrate physics capabilities not seen in other video games.
Each Fluro possesses a body composed entirely of physically
simulated fluid that provides them with unique abilities
including melting, reforming, mixing with other types of fluid,
and re-growing lost limbs. By choosing how and where to bring
liquid to life, players can solve puzzles and progress in this
fantastic, mechanical world.
"With Vessel, we wanted to push the boundaries of how hardware
power is used in games," said Vessel designer and Strange Loop
Games co-founder John Krajewski. "Typically, hardware power put
towards graphics and physics is only an aesthetic addition. In
Vessel, the foundation of the gameplay and puzzles is based in
liquid simulation."
In Vessel, players take on the role of Arkwright, a renowned
inventor whose inventions - living liquid creatures known as
Fluros - have gone awry, turning on their users and disrupting
machinery throughout the world. To fix the flawed Fluros and
restore order, players must create, manipulate and destroy a
wide variety of Fluros and operate complex machinery to solve
challenging puzzles. Vessel takes players on an exploratory
adventure through four fascinating worlds, fixing the work sites
where Fluros are employed and ultimately leading the player to
complete Arkwright's next great invention, "The Accelerator."
Vessel will be available on Windows PC March 1 for $14.99 via
Steam and StrangeLoopGames.com. Vessel will also be released on
Xbox LIVEŽ Arcade and PlayStationŽNetwork at a later date, to be
announced.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.strangeloopgames.com
To check out the First Look video for Vessel, please visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Yubu615mE
Warning: Video references evolution.