Video Game – shape+colour

sony play station: flower.

This is pretty amazing. “Flower” is a new game for Play Station 3 that’s breaking the mould of the typical first-person run and shoot fest. Helmed by lead creative designer Jenova Chen (watch an excellent video of Chen himself narrating a demo of the game on Gamespot), each level starts with a lonely flower sitting on the windowsill of a grey urban apartment.

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The game begins, poetically, inside each “flower’s dream.” Your job is to guide petals from the flower across different landscapes by tilting the controller. That’s it. As Joystiq wrote: “There’s no time limit, no hazards, no points system and, really, no way to fail.” It’s not so much as game as a beautiful zen relaxation exercise.

Check out this fan-created trailer for the game, fortuitously set to one of my fave songs of all time “Gold In The Air Of Summer” by Kings of Convenience. It’s so austere and lovely, and could completely be a music video or animated short. The quality and detail of the graphic animation is unreal. Definitely click on the HD button to get the full effect…

“Flower” is being released in the U.S. and Europe on February 12.

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ian dallas: the unfinished swan.

I’m a little freaked out right now because I’ve had nightmares about snow blindness and this very thing: waking up in a pure white world, without shadow or colour or visual dimension. In my nightmare I wake up and all I can see is white, a sort of polar blindness, and can’t discern where I am or what’s around me. Not white in a pure, pristine, blank slate type of way. Not white as light, but white as void. As an inescapable nothingness. It’s fucking terrifying.

“The Unfinished Swan” is a visually-stunning new first-person game, created by L.A.-based game designer Ian Dallas, that places you firmly inside this white world. Only by throwing black paint balls can you determine what’s around you, creating dimension from the splatter.

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The game is still in production and there aren’t any current plans to release it, but with some growing internet buzz there’s a chance that may change.

It’s when I found this following screenshot on Dallas’ website that I really shit my pants. How did he know? He’s like Freddy Kreuger. Ian Dallas – get out of my mind!