Have I got a most interesting, intriguing and inspirational little amusment for you!
While downloading the new F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin from Steam.com (my beloved lil’ sweetie oh-so-graciously bought me the game last night, knowing my absolute love for the first one, yay!), I took a quick stroll through the Casual games section and came across a most delicious and unexpected jewel! Considering my obsession over taking any opportunity to see things from an entirely different perspective, and being the certifiably batty creative that I am, I nearly shouted with glee when I saw it. And if you’re anything like me, you will get a huge kick out of this. Get all the dirty details after the jump!
I-Fluid is a physics based adventure game that pits you against the everyday, mundane environment. The game challenges you to navigate your way through a typical suburban home while avoiding obstacles. Sound boring? Then try this on for size.
The game challenges you to navigate an everyday environment from the perspective of a drop of water! Yes, you “heard” correctly. The actual physics engine is fabulous, the environment highly interactive and responsive to your movements through it and interactions with it. The game itself has your delightfully photographic-quality immersiveness to it and actions/reactions within the game are wonderfully realistic.
According to the official press release, the purpose of I-Fluid is to “experience life from the perspective of a drop of water”. Become a droplet and escape! Use your environment by gliding, sliding, dropping (pardon the pun), hopping and climbing around. Use moist surfaces and objects to replenish yourself and thrive, and avoid absorbant or otherwise drying surfaces like cake, paper towels and frying pans, while making your way to the goal.
Because the physics engine behind the environment is beautifully complex, each object behaves uniquely, even from replay to replay. The game’s review from Gamecyte.com states:
For example, in the first stage at one point a roll of tape ambles its way into your path, and each time it does so the physics dictating it cause it to fall in a different way. One time you may need to just go around to the right, others you might have to kill yourself because it blocks the entire path. As the game progresses, these events increase in scale, so you can imagine how they impact gameplay on subsequent playthrough.
A free demo is available for download from the game’s official website. If you are needing a break from the demands of real-world creativity and inspired, creative problem-solving, I-Fluid seems to provide a very interesting, entertaining and intriguing way to, as William Blake once wrote, “see the world in a grain of sand”.
…Or see the world from a droplet of water, at any rate. Check out the screenshots below!
