Fract Beta

By: ithamore

On: June 14th, 2011

The beta for Fract has been out for a while, but the news of “official” production beginning on the full game and the addition of Henk Boom (of Pax Britannica fame) to the husband and wife studio has gotten me all excited about it again (even though it isn’t expected to be finished until early 2012).

It’s a first person adventure game with an electro, Tron-ish theme in both look and sound that hooked me from the beginning. The beta is short if you can quickly figure out the puzzles, but Richard Flanagan says it’s only a “slice” of what he has envisioned for the full game. Also, I hope the final puzzle wows you as much as it did me the first time I hit the play button.

Fract’s beta was made in Unity and comes in Mac and Win flavors. However, it is only downloadable, since it’s a hefty 117 MB (a heads up for those of you who have to consider bandwidth caps).

Posted in Abstract, Adventure, Audio, Macintosh, Videos, Windows | Tags: Phosfiend Systems

http://twitter.com/celluloseman Evan Balster

I talked to the developer of this at GDC. He seemed like a nice guy, and this is a damned cool game; go him.

(Don't know what the hell kind of mood precipitates inane positive comments outta me, but I'm in it. Woo life!)
News

Pax Britannica fame? Never heard of it. But it looks fucking incredible.

FRACT, or what we've seen of it so far, is a fantastic Myst-alike, which breaks away from the pack with a unique (for the subgenre) theme. Play it, people.
http://www.fractgame.com Fractgame

Howdy and thanks for the support! We're really excited to be working on the game, and can't wait to share it with more people. We're stoked to have Henk on board – guy is a technical magician and is giving some awesome design input!
CoryHunt

Makes me think of Star Fox and Lawnmower Man.
joehonkie

I will buy it just for looking like TRON.
http://laserbrainstudios.com Christian Knudsen

Don't know if it's just nostalgia or something, but I'm a sucker for this kind of aesthetic…
DerekYu

Very shitty performance
Honest Guy

Hmm, I want to try this. Graphics may be fractal but they look complex.
Seraph

Thanks for the game! The Beta was an amazing experience-very atmospheric.
Fractgame

Hey Derek, sorry to hear it's not performing well. Not to worry though, now that we have Henk (our technical director) on board, we'll definitely make sure to resolve it for the full release. What system are you running it on?