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Role Model Game : Fez by Kokoromi
Submitted by carloslara on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 05:26.Rotate perspectives in a platformer
Fez has the look of a standard pixelated platformer, replete with cutesy characters and whimsical worlds. The key difference is that it gets rendered to play as a 3d game. So in a way, Fez is neither 2 dimensions or 3 dimensions, but halfway ... 2.5d !
Author : http://www.kokoromi.org/fez
Video : http://www.gameculture.com/node/337
Role Model Game : Little Big Planet by Media Molecule
Submitted by carloslara on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 05:21.Play, Create, Design at the same time !
Small company, started january 2006 with a good game and went to the doors of Sony, London to present it. now they are the poster game for PS3.In LittleBigPlanet, players control small characters (nicknamed "Sackboy", owing to their material and appearance), each of which can jump, move, and grab objects. Players can use their abilities to shape and develop the highly manipulable environment to build custom spaces either individually, collaboratively, and/or competitively.
Author : http://www.mediamolecule.com/about.html
GamePlay : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuoOosTdFiY
Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_big_planet
Role Model Game : Braid by Jonathan Blow
Submitted by carloslara on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 05:19.is played by solving physical puzzles in a somewhat standard video game environment like Super Mario Bros. with jumping and enemies. This is made innovative by the player's ability to reverse time and "rewind" one's actions, even after dying. Complicated puzzles result from features like objects that don't rewind with the rest of the universe and "ghosts" of the player's actions before rewinding.
Author : http://www.davidhellman.net/blog/the-art-of-braid-part-3
http://braid-game.com/news/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_%28video_game%29
Role Model Game : The misadventures of PB Winterbottom by USC
Submitted by carloslara on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 05:17.Use Game play iteration to solve puzzles
University of Southern California - School of Cinematic Arts - Interactive Media Program. Use iteration of game play to help you solve the puzzles.
Author : http://www.winterbottomgame.com
Role Model Games : World of goo by 2dBoy
Submitted by carloslara on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 05:15.World of Goo is a physics-based computer puzzle game being developed for Wii, Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux by 2D Boy, an independent game developer company formed by former Electronic Arts employees.
Author : http://2dboy.com/games.php
Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Goo
Role Model Games : Portal by Digipen/Valve
Submitted by carloslara on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 05:12.FPNS : First Person NON Shooter :)
Portal is a single-player first-person action/puzzle video game developed by the Valve Corporation. The view is from first person but it is not violent game. The prototype was developed by Digipen, and was presented to Valve. The game was released for Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows on October 9, 2007, and for the PlayStation 3 on December 11, 2007.
Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_(video_game)
Flash version : http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/portal.php
Role Model Games : Every day shooter by Jonhathan Mak
Submitted by carloslara on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 05:11.Visual and Audio creation through non-violent shooter
Everyday Shooter is an album of games exploring the expressive power of abstract shooters. Dissolute sounds of destruction are replaced with guitar riffs harmonizing over an all-guitar soundtrack, while modulating shapes celebrate the flowing beauty of geometry.
Game : http://www.everydayshooter.com/
Role Model Games : Desktop Tower Defense by Paul Preece
Submitted by carloslara on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 05:09.Desktop Tower Defense is a Flash-based browser game of the tower defense game genre created by first-time game designer Paul Preece in March of 2007. In the span of a few months, the game had been played over 15.7 million times as of July 2007. The game was among one of Webware 100's top ten entertainment web applications of 2007.
Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Tower_DefenseGame Game : http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/game.asp
Role Model Game : Triachnid by Florian Himsl and Edmund McMillen
Submitted by carloslara on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 05:05.Unique interface, Move the legs of a three leg spider independently.
Trianchnid is an action game where you have to control each leg of a three legged creature. Tough to learn but really fun after you get the feel of moving the legs.
Author : http://www.triachnid.com/
Video : http://kotaku.com/348998/hot-flashes-tri+achnid
Role Model Games : Flow by Jenova Chen and Nicholas Clark
Submitted by carloslara on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 05:01.Use evolution ideas and a simple mouse interface
The game involves the player guiding a tiny, aquatic worm-like microorganism through various depths of the ocean to consume other organisms and to evolve their organism as the player advances.
Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlOw
Author : http://thegamecompany.com
Game : http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/
