Blueberry Garden in-game menu
AH! I wrote a short heads-up about this game the other day and it had gotten me a little curious.
Seeing it got quite a lot of attention already I decided to ask the creator, Erik Svedäng, if it would be possible to check it out to write a brief preview. You can imagine my excitement when I received an e-mail today with an über secret link to download it and try it out!
So here’s thanks to Erik for the quick response! Read further to see what I found out:
Blueberry Garden, a small preview
If you’ve had a chance to look at some of the screenshots, the trailer and the tiny article I wrote about this game earlier, you might have noticed this is not your everyday PC game.
Blueberry Garden is a fairytalish platform game, soon coming out for PC. As a platform game, ofcourse there are certain puzzles to solve by walking and jumping through the level (one for now). What kind of puzzles? How would I know? I played the game and didn’t understand a thing of what I was doing, but somehow it made sense to do it. Every time I touched a big apple, a large black hat or even a huge piece of cheese, with a white flash it was suddenly stacked on top of the previous piece I found and you get warped back to the starting point. Ready to find the next piece of the puzzle.
Oh, and did I mention you’re playing a strange guy with a beak and a hat?
Although this might sound a bit boring and unoriginal, there’s a couple of things that just kept me playing.
First is the great way this game is drawn. The graphics are quite cool, with 3d-ish clouds and blurred edges it all seems a little dreamy. And a big plus for early release is the beautiful piano music! The soundtrack used is from an artist named Daduk and it’s a free downloadable 6 track album that runs randomly through the game. Download Daduk’s album right here! I don’t know if this music is actually made for the game, but I hope to clear some of that up in an interview with Erik Svedäng soon.
I can understand this game has gotten a lot of attention lately, especially in the so-called indy (independent) game scene. It’s a totally mystifying, addictive, weird game that doesn’t make any sense at all (yet) and doesn’t compare to any other game in any other genre. I can’t wait to find out more and maybe see it on Xbox Live Arcade some day, who knows?
Below are some screenshots I made during my adventures in the Garden.
Blueberry Garden preview screenshots
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I must admit I had no interest in this article what-so-ever, but your writing style engaged me to keep reading ’cause it peeked my curiosity. Good review indeed.
cool, thanks for the reply Keith! Hope to see you back in here someday to read some more!
Nice preview, I’m curious about the interview. This game reminds me of Braid, one single guy making something beautifully drawn with beautiful music. Cool!
Yeah someone on Digg mentioned Braid as well. Certainly has the same kind of theme. Big difference is this one being totally free and based on open source coding and such (drawings are his own though!)