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Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH today confirmed the launch
date for its clever Xbox LIVE® Arcade and
PlayStation®Network puzzler,
Puddle. The publisher also released a number of
new images of the prize-winning title.
Puddle will be released via Xbox LIVE® Arcade
for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from
Microsoft and via the PlayStation®Network for the
PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system on January 25th.
The game challenges the player to guide a number of liquid
properties rocket fuel through a series of stages, each more
inventive than the last.
The new screenshots showcase the broad variety of courses
available to navigate. Players must dodge heat beams and rays of
electric current that can fry their puddle, or handle a blob of
radioactive fluid with care, follow a virtual puddle of rocket fuel
through a hand drawn blueprint, and even follow a sip of water as
it makes its way through a human body!
Players guide their respective liquid by tilting the
environment, balancing each fluid’s unique properties with
the environmental factors of gravity, friction, and each
course’s obstacles. Players can only see one small section of
a stage at a time, thus
Puddle will offer plenty of unexpected twists,
keeping players alert and ready for the next challenge.
Puddle for the PlayStation® Network also
supports motion controls using the Playstation® Move or Sixaxis
controller.
Puddle began as a student project and duly won a
Student Showcase prize at the Independent Gaming Festival at the
Game Developer’s Conference 2010. It arrives now as a
fully-fledged downloadable game unlike anything players have
experienced before."
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