The Bridge Available on Steam
I don't know if any of you are familiar with the game "The Bridge", but I got a chance to play it at Indiecade last year, and I really liked it. The puzzles were fun, and the art was interesting. I only got to play it for about ten minutes, though, so... Take my opinion for what it's worth.
Here's the description steam gives it:
"The Bridge is a 2D logic puzzle game that forces the player to reevaluate their preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures."
And it's available on February 22. I'll probably buy it, because I met the guy and he seemed to really believe in his game.
Steam link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/204240/
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Here we go.
Firstly, I can't tell you anything about the technical aspects of the game. Aside from having played it over a year ago and for a very short time, I'm just not interested in game mechanics or controls. I don't care. If you try to talk to me about these things, I'll listen and be as focused as I can be... but in the end, it's like listening to my dad talk about football. I don't have any kind of innate interest in it, and I never will.
Having said that, games do interest me.
When I met Dan, one of the first things he said to me was that he would "happily argue that video games are art" for hours. It never even occurred to me, really. I didn't have an opinion one way or the other. Then Dan had me play Braid. He asked me what I thought about it, and the best way I could describe my experience of that game was "it was like playing through a moving piece of art." And it definitely was. It was abstract and beautiful. I mean, putting aside pretext and pretentiousness, you can't really deny that. I felt the same way about Bastion. These are incredible works of art that someone created, and they're not getting their due in the art world. It's sad, really.
So, when I say I liked The Bridge... it's because it was interesting to me. The puzzles are set up against a hand drawn background, so in my opinion it's just as much about the art as it is about the actual game play. Essentially, having this game in my Steam library would be the gaming equivalent of hanging a painting on my wall. Hopefully that makes as much sense in words as it did in my head before I wrote it. This is rarely the case.
tl;dr... I thought it was pretty.
It will be going in my library shortly.