Both EchoChrome and Elefunk were previously meant to hit the European PSN Store today, but failed to do so. A cursory glance at the official PlayStation site suggests EchoChrome will land next week, with Elefunk the week after. Let's hope so.
According to the Official UK PlayStation website, the puzzle game Echochrome will be released on the PlayStation store this thursday. As well as completing the pre-created puzzles players are also able to download user created puzzles.
Kumi Yuasa at PlayStation.Blog writes:
With digital distribution making it possible for a greater variety of unconventional titles to reach the market, imaginative new forms of puzzle gameplay are emerging. Echochrome for the Playstation 3 and PSP, whose art direction mirrors the logic-defying line drawings of M.C. Escher, is one such example. The physical laws of the in-game environment are determined by the way the player manipulates the perspective, making illusions of perception the literal truth. For the music accompanying the game, Hideki Sakamoto has created a collection of classical music tracks, recently released in a soundtrack album by Team Entertainment. For this discussion on the sound of Echochrome, the composer joins Siliconera for a deeper look at the design underlying the innovative puzzle game and its original soundtrack.
Elefunk, Echochrome and Pixel Junk Eden have all been given release dates for Europe. They will all be available for download on the Playstation Store.
Sony is keeping the Echochrome content rolling through thick and fast, with ten more levels to appear in the PS3 version of the game this week.
This comes after 20 user-created levels were selected by Sony to appear in the game last week.
The new stages will, as before, appear in the Freeform mode at random depending on the difficulty level you have chosen. It seems like a bit of an awkward way of doing things, but Sony advises ...
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Playstation blog writes: "Hello again, PlayStation.Blog readers. I'm back with another echochrome extra-level update. Twenty free, new puzzles are making their way to your PS3 over the next two weeks.
Kumi Yuasa, associate producer of Echochrome, has confirmed that 20 new user-created levels will be released over the next few days.
Starting from today until May 21, the 20 levels will be made available to PS3 Echochrome players via the game's Freeform mode.
"The additional levels will appear at random in Freeform mode if you set your difficulty level to 2 or 3," explains Yuasa.
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Playstation.Blog writes: "Hello PlayStation.Blog readers. It's Kumi again with an echochrome update. Last time around I showed you how to play and create new echochrome levels. I hope you're ready for some new challenges, because 20 (yes, twenty!) new puzzles will be made available to PS3 echochrome players between May 15th and 21st.
Echochrome producer Kumi Yuasa has promised that user-created puzzles will be available to download for free on a regular basis.