A Gaming Miasma: Plazma Being | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

By John Walker on April 17th, 2013 at 5:00 pm.

You need a new puzzle platformer to fill four hours of your life. I have one. This is synergy. High fives in an orderly queue. Plazma Being is the terrible name for a deceptively tricky little puzzler from first-time dev, Felix Wunderlich. (Also, coincidentally, winner of Today?s Best Name.) You, as you may have guessed, play a blob of plasma. What you might not have intuited is that you?re captured by aliens, cast on a planet with an unfamiliar force called ?gravity?, and trying to find your way out of there.

Your blob, called Zeb, has the ability to telekinetically (or probably a word more to do with physics) move objects within a radius of his current position, letting you build pathways, flick switches, deflect laser beams, and all the like. Later you can ?possess? objects too ? you know ? it?s a puzzle platformer.

But what stands out here is that it?s smart. For a first time project, it?s impressively smart. And almost immediately very tricky. Made using L?VE, a free software framework for Lua, it?s inevitably on Greenlight. But you can already buy it from Desura for just ?1.50, or ?3 on IndieCity, and ?3 directly from Wunderlich.

Source: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/04/17/a-gaming-miasma-plazma-being/

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