Greetings, everyone!
This is
INVERTO a first person shooter-puzzler with gravity manipulations.
Game is ideological successor of such games as "Prey" and "Portal" with a pinch of parkour.
Proceed all of the testing areas as a simple researcher with your trusty GraviGun.
Prepare to explore Escher-esque spaces and solve navigational puzzles by changing gravity direction,
employing body momentum and fighting nausea (only if you have weak vestibular system).
"Inverto" is developed on Unity3D game engine and is planned on Windows, Mac, Linux and Web.
Will be released later this summer. Current version of the game is in alpha state, and does not represent final product quality.
Features:
- gravity manipulations in first person view
- gravitational and navigational puzzles build upon switching gravity direction
- 16 explorable levels
- clean and simple art style
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Posts
1) The two highest graphics options are "beautiful" and "fantastic" which is kind of silly because one of those doesn't scream "better" than the other.
2) The graphics are nice but having everything look the same everywhere + changing gravity = I got lost 5 minutes in and didn't really look forward to repeating the experience 18 times. For a puzzle game I prefer that it either break things up into chunks so that I can make progress without having to wander around (Portal's test chambers for instance) or, if the puzzle game is going to let me free-roam around and solve puzzles at my leisure, it should be super easy to free roam - I shouldn't get lost or anything. If part of this puzzle game is figuring out where you are then I guess that's the game but I don't enjoy those kinds of games because being lost for 20 minutes feels like the level designer's fault, not my fault.
1). But FPS drops significantly
2). You are not alone in this. That was part of a puzzle like in "Prey" for example, but I've never thought it's so disorienting. Looks like I'll have to do something about those levels...
Later this week game is going to be updated. More info about update and game features here.
Game is in active fund-raising campaign on Indiegogo. Read about it here.