Auditorium
Genre: Puzzle
Platform: Browser (Flash)
Developed by: Cipher Prime
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The Scoop: Auditorium made the rounds across Digg, Twitter, and various other social media sites late last year. It exploded across the web with such velocity for good reason – so if you happened to miss it the first time around, you’re in for a treat.
The core gameplay itself is a fairly cerebral puzzle experience, but even gamers who don’t typically enjoy slow-paced puzzlers should give it a try. The puzzles are wrapped up in a unique aural and visual wrapping, which gives the title a broad appeal – my hunch is that almost everyone will enjoy at least a level or two.
Gamers are tasked with manipulating flowing particles of light so that they flow through specific points on the screen. This is accomplished via various buttons that can be moved across the play field, expanded and contracted, etc. Different buttons have different characteristics – some buttons will cause the light particles to divert in a specific direction, others will cause the particles to begin to spiral, etc.
The hook is that as you begin to solve the level, with particles flowing through the proper points, the music swells, grows, and evolves. That, coupled with the light show, often creates a beautiful, bizarre electronic symphony of sorts. The entire experience teeters on the brink of pretentiousness, but it never crosses that line.
(30 votes, average: 4.57 out of 5)
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Links:
Destructoid Write-Up
Joystiq Write-Up
ArsTechnica Write-Up
JayIsGames Review
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This game is beautiful, and fun to boot. Once the spiral button showed up, the solutions started getting pretty hard. Fortunately, trial-and-error is pretty well rewarded.