Psp Danny, an insomniac young adult, must traipse through several puzzle-laden sections of his traumatized subconscious using Dr. Reuben's C.R.U.S.H. Machine, which allows Danny to solve puzzles by turning the whole world from 3D into 2D, and vice-versa.

.May 14, 2009 - Once upon a time, developers had a small handful of tools to work with. A modern Word document uses more kilobytes than an entire 'old school' machines.

The development choice was easy, then – focus on the functionality and, with a little help from the player's imagination, let the form take care of itself. Back then, the only clue players had as to the content/plot of their cartridge was the box art. Without it, they would have little or no idea about what was actually going on. An obvious example is Adventure on the Atari 2600 (well, obvious to old people I guess). The box art shows a sweet dragon and a bad-ass castle locked in mortal combat.

A chicken foetus and a toy fort.This side-by-side comparison of Bank Heist, another classic 2600 title, highlights the point pretty well.Despite the obvious disconnect between the concept art and the reality, Bank Heist was good fun, especially when you slid the difficulty switch from A to B to activate hard mode. Since then, developers seem to have been playing catch up, trying to make amends for the fugliness of these early games. The majority of resources (budget, man power and technical) are now largely devoted to making a game look as 'realistic' as possible – a process which often results in plastic-skinned creatures from the Uncanny Valley that walk a lot like they just sharted.

Bundling resources into this quest to make unsettling (and often unbelievable) character models means something has to give and, more often than not, it's the gameplay.We think it's time developers went back to the basics and we think you should too. Let's try putting our universal fixation on graphics to one side for a moment, and consider the Old God of game development – the level design.December 10, 2008 - Welcome to IGN's 2008 Year in Review for the PlayStation family. Over the next seven pages we're going to cover the highest highs and lowest lows, the biggest news and highest reviews of 2008. We're going to look back at the year's events, like E3, GDC and TGS, and see how well (or how little) Sony pushed the systems. You'll find a list of the year's highest rated titles, as determined by both the IGN editors and our readers. We'll break down the biggest news of the year and provide a few tips and tricks on the hottest games.

And finally, we'll take a look at 2009 and see what's in store for Sony's systems. So sit back, pour yourself a nice beverage and have a read.December 2, 2008 - In November 2006, the PlayStation 3 launched and brought with it Resistance: Fall of Man, the brand new Sixaxis controller, and an offshoot of the Cross Media Bar known as the PlayStation Store. From that simple Store that looked more like your typical Web page, Sony promised the future - games you could download straight to your new machine's hard drive that would be as good as games you could find on store shelves and that would rival the ever-growing library on of Xbox Live Arcade titles on the Xbox 360.June 26, 2008 - If you thought this summer was going to be spent in your dank, dark basement playing Metal Gear and checking IGN, you were dead wrong. This summer is all about spending time in different dank, dark corners of your house using your PSP to check IGN and to play the wealth of titles coming to storm your UMD slot.Don't believe us? Check out the list below. As we build up to the holiday season, there's going to be a firm foundation of PSP titles to whet your portable appetite, and those bricks are about to start falling into place.Why are you still reading this intro - summer's wasting away and you have to figure out what you're going to play!.May 16, 2008 - Let's face it: you're a busy PS3 owner.

You've got plenty of Blu-ray movies to watch, CDs to rip onto your system, photos to upload for slideshows or Net browsing to do. Or perhaps you're just absorbed in the latest PS3 game to hit the system to worry about all the digital content that's flooding the PSN every Thursday. Well, have no fear - we'll take care of that for you. Every week, we'll scour the recent updates for those gems that every PS3 owner should have residing on their system.May 2, 2008 - Typically when you play a puzzle game, you are given an objective and perhaps a few different ways that you can accomplish this task. However, you're not frequently asked to readjust the reality of the world simply by manipulating the camera to close gaps between platforms. The same could be said about erasing pitfalls by changing a camera angle so a column appears to cover a hole.

These optical illusions form the basis behind Sony's latest PSN title, echochrome, which asks players to constantly tweak, bend and change their perceptions to solve deceptive puzzles. While the choice to use optical illusions is a unique one, the decision to focus upon a simple wireframe presentation adds a surprising amount of depth to this spatial puzzle title.March 28, 2008 - We've been keeping tabs on Echochrome ever since it was announced at last year's E3, including a recent hands-on of the Japanese demo. However, at a recent PSN event, we got more time with the final game, and discovered a lot more information about the space bending puzzle game that will probably intrigue every PS3 and PSP owner. For starters, we found that the game's tutorial, which explains the five perspective laws, will be joined by a set of tips to help players out, such as the fact that your wire frame figure always prefers to go to the left if it comes to a branching pathway. Information like this can help players plan how to best manipulate the game space if they keep facts such as these in mind as they spin and rotate the environments.March 7, 2008 - Some games are constantly criticized for a lack of creativity or unique content.

Chaos battle league cheats 2017. That's simply impossible when it comes to echochrome, SCE Studios Japan's upcoming puzzle title that bends both spatial awareness and physics to create a new kind of gameplay experience. We were lucky enough to check out the title at GDC, but the Japanese PlayStation store recently released a demo of the game for players to check out. We were eager to see if there were any new items to be found within the demo, so we grabbed the PS3 version and prepared to realign our perceptions of the world around us.

Hello again, PlayStation.Blog Readers!If you haven’t already downloaded (it went live during ), you’ve got 56 brain-busting, perspective-spinning puzzles ahead of you. If anyone out there has already managed to clear all the levels, are looking for you. Still, you’ve hardly seen all echochrome has to offer. Aside from.another. 56 levels to be found in the other version of echochrome (both the PS3 and PSP editions contain unique level sets), you can also play the best levels your fellow.When you boot up the PS3 version of the game and sign in online, you may be prompted to download new content. These new, free updates contain the top user-created levels, hand-selected by the developers themselves. There will be new levels available on a regular basis, but they will only be available to play until the next group of levels is up.

So be sure to check in regularly for more content – or you may miss out!Additional levels will appear at random in freeform mode. Remember that in freeform mode, levels that have not been cleared are selected first.Now, if you want to see if you have what it takes to create a custom level that might be good enough to get picked by the developer for distribution to PS3 owners everywhere (or if you just want to mess around and see what kind of crazy creation you can make), then keep reading.To start your own custom level from scratch, go to the main menu and select “canvas.” You’ll start off on a blank canvas, and your builder icon will appear as a red box in the middle. Use the thumbsticks to rotate the camera (and R1 button to go faster), just like the game itself. Move the cursor with the d-pad on a 2D plane (up/down, left/right) based on where the camera is looking (rotate the camera to move in a different direction), and use the X button to put pieces down.

If you want to erase a piece, use the O button. A handy feature is the Square button, which will jump the cursor to the closest built area.You start off with the default path piece selected. To change to different pieces, such as stairs, holes, fans (jump pads), echoes, and the start point (mannequin character), press Triangle, select with left and right on the d-pad, and X when you are at the piece you want to use. Pressing the O button while the selection menu is open will cancel and back you out to the piece you were just using.Every level has to have 3 things: a start, pathways, and a goal.

The mannequin piece acts as the starting point for the level. You can build pathways with as many gaps, obstacles, and bends as you like. The goal is to reach the echoes, or shadow guides.

These are like markers that you have to guide the mannequin to. So you’ll need at least one of these.

You can place up to four echoes anywhere in the environment, while the fifth and final echo will always appear exactly where you place the mannequin character.Before you can do anything else with the level, you will have to make sure it can actually be cleared or completed. So open the pause menu and select “test play.” This will let you attempt to get through your own creation to see if it can actually be completed. If it can be cleared, you will be prompted to save it.

You can also add a name to your level from “title” in the pause menu.Now, if you’re not feeling very creative right off the bat, and want some help getting started, you can go to the gallery, where all the pre-made levels that shipped with the game are, and press the Triangle button on one of them. This will copy it over to your portfolio, where you can edit it all you like to make it more challenging, easier, whatever.Once you create a level and successfully test it, you’re ready to send it off. To do this, go to the portfolio menu and select the stage you want to send by pressing the X button. In the PSP version, you can select the “send” option, which will let you send the level to someone over Ad Hoc. If you’re playing the PS3 version, you’ll have two options.

One is “send” which lets you enter the PSN username of the person you want to send the level to. The other option, “upload,” allows you to send the level to the developers.

And if they really like your level, it may be distributed to everyone with the PS3 version of the game! Pretty cool, huh?The game can get pretty challenging on the bigger, more complex levels.

To help you out, if you go to the “etc.” option from the main menu, there’s a tip section with useful bits of information. There are other hidden secrets and advanced techniques waiting to be found in echochrome. What have you figured out so far? I’m all for including everyone in the fun- I third the request for the PS Store to play nice with Macs (though it may be a moot point when/if the PSP Store is implemented).Anyway, posting on a Sunday night? Workaholic, aren’t you?:P It’s cool that the developers are still taking an active role, and yet don’t have to spend too much time doing all the grunt work themselves. Utilizing the users themselves to expand the value of the game really is ingenious. Media Molecule has clearly realized this as well.Thank you!:D.

This game is great, but I do have a gripe about how you redistribute the content.I don’t like that it gets randomly thrown into the freeform, and gets deleted when new content is downloaded.It seems like a half-assed job.1) You have no idea who did these creations. Bought the game on Thursday, and it’s a ton of fun, I definitely agree with some of the above comments that having an option to browse user generated levels would be great.Also, on my TV (36″ Sony Trinitron), Echochrome displays offset far to the left I can’t read the menu, or the tips very well. Is there a chance you guys could release a patch with screen centering tools?

I would think it would be a pretty common tool to integrate into the game, and it would definitely be useful for those of us with display issues.Keep up the good work, the game is a ton of fun! I haven’t gotten this game yet (still reeling financially from tax time), but plan to get both the PS3 and PSP versions. I have one question about game sharing.

Is it possible (either now or in the future with a patch) to install custom levels by downloading with the computer and then putting the level on a memory stick/USB drive for the PS3, or directly onto the PSP via USB? I can understand not being able to copy a downloaded level for distribution elsewhere, but be able to copy your own created level to post as a zipped archive on the web for others to download and install. All with the usual disclaimers that SCE isn’t liable for content provided outside their sphere of influence. @45 KedaroI too had an account at a very young age, with my parents as a co-signer, but it was only a savings account. I used it to save gift money and extra allowance. Nothing that I could even write a check on.

My parents closed the account when I was around 10 because the bank was charging me more money than I could afford to deposit per month from allowances and gift money because they changed their policies and my balance was under their minimum. It was kinda cool watching my mother ream the bank manager a new anal sphincter for stealing money from a minor.:-D(Granted, I don’t know why the under 18 people complaining about not being able to get a card to set up an account don’t have their parents set up an account.

Then when they want to buy something they give their parents cash (from allowance, weekend jobs, etc.) and the parents make the purchase. But, I’m not their parent).