   Cloud Game
  My apologies if somebody has already posted about this before but I came across a rather cool indie game involving taking control of clouds.Check it out hereI thought it was great fun and really well made [grin]   
  Never played this before its pretty hard acutally well at least in later levels. Intresting idea though.   ;  Interesting article about the game.Quote:"Dragging clouds through the sky. That's the most exciting activity you can do in Cloud, a new computer game where you play a young boy who flies through the air above a small group of islands.Add in slow melodic piano music and beautiful water-colour graphics, and Cloud becomes the only relaxing game I can ever recall playing....Cloud[...] has come out of the Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California."The lab's brief is to "try and create projects that could drive games into new areas", says Tracy Fullerton, co-director of the lab""People have written to us and said they cried when they played the game," Fullerton says. "I show [Cloud] to non-gamers a lot and they say to me 'where can I get this'? The game industry isn't catering to these people.Looks like EA at least understands the need for inovation in games.   ;Quote:Original post by DogCityInteresting article about the game....Looks like EA at least understands the need for inovation in games.I loved the cloud game, but I disagree with just about everything in that article [lol]. I find it hard to believe that anyone could cry whilest playing the game and to be honest the corny soppy dialogues had me in stitches [grin]The music was ok for the first few levels but got very very repetitive the more I played ...I think the tune from Isle Delfino in Super Mario Sunshine would suit it better [smile]The artwork is nice and the sounds in general were great (especially the wind when you are down low flying around using middle mouse button). The controls were very intuitive and drawing stuff in the sky was great fun ...as was making those storm clouds rain [smile]I still recommend everyone to try it out for yourselves as I did find the game's concept very original, I just didn't buy into the "story" or blue hair'd-ness [grin]   ;  This game was also posted about on digg.com about two days back. I have to agree with ViLiO though   ;Quote:Original post by ViLiOI just didn't buy into the "story" or blue hair'd-ness [grin]What is the story? My interpretation is that the blue haired kid is dying, remembered flying through the clouds before he was born, and is now having an obe and has gone back to play with the clouds again. I'm not sure how right that is, but I could see why it might elicit an emotional response.   ;  Interesting game, addictive too.Music is good, graphics, not so much. Also, I would have MUCH liked to have been able to fly around in all the dimensions, not just x and y.7 out of 10   ;Quote:Original post by DogCityInteresting article about the game.The responses to that article (just below it)... depress me.  The people who spout "It's not mainstream style so it's crap" are who lead companies towards rehash/sequel projects out the wazoo.Innovation should be embrased, not shunned.Great find by the way!   ;  APC: You can, hold the middle mouse button.   ;Quote:Original post by smart_idiotAPC: You can, hold the middle mouse button.Okay.8 out of 10.   