Tatsuya Suzuki and Jun Fujiki, lead developers on the PSP and PlayStation 3 puzzler echochrome, announced that a 2D version of the game is coming to PlayStation Home at an unspecified date. Instead of tapping into the PS3's 4D capabilities, the Japan Studios team is going in the other direction, presumably adhering to their gameplay credo of "getting people to play with rules and laws."
Excerpts from PS3 Attitude: "During their speech at Develop 08, SCEJ revealed that the total number of user levels created for Echochrome have exceeded 2,500."
TalkPlayStation.com writes:"Echochrome, the mind numbing puzzle game, already out in America was meant to be released in Europe as part of last weeks Playstation Store update. Did it make it? No.
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.
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."The difficulty level is represented by the ...
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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.
Kumi Yuasa from The Playstation blog writes:
Sony's mind-melting puzzler, Echochrome, is out on the US PSN today for your brain-aching pleasure.In case you've not been following it, Echochrome is an innovative little title which sees you rotating simple 3D environments to create paths for a little walking make to traverse.It uses a clever optical illusion mechanic, where obstacles like holes or gaps in the path disappear when you can't see them. It hurts just trying to ...
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Playstation Blog:
Either you've already played the Japanese demo or you're about to play the American one, doesn't matter, Echocrome's teaser levels make things look easy. Pedestrian. As though the dev team came up with a neat concept, but couldn't think of ways to really push it. Yeah, no, that's WRONG. Look at these new screens. These later, harder levels are built for one purpose: to take your mental ass, wine it, dine it, then kick it.
Playstation Blog:
When it premiered at E3 2007, echochrome was the talk of the town, were the internet a town and forum posters people. Nearly a year has passed since then with very few things being mentioned as its buzz slowly quieted. Then a bolt from the blue appeared in the form of a post on the official Playstation blog. The post let everyone know that the game, scheduled for a May launch, will have its demo released it tomorrow on PSN and for ...
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Game Focus reports: "In the latest Official Playstation Blog, Peter Dille, Senior Vice President, Marketing, hinted that innovative puzzle Echochrome would be released next month in the Americas."