Vessel

By: Alehkhs

On: March 1st, 2012

Vessel, Strange Loop Games’ gorgeous physics-based puzzle adventure platformer, has been released and is available for purchase on the developers’ site or the game’s Steam page (there is also a demo on Steam).

Three years in the making, Vessel puts the player in the shoes of inventor M. Arkwright as he controls liquid automatons known as Fluros and tries to complete his greatest invention, the mysterious “Accelerator.”

Strange Loop Games estimates about 10 hours of gameplay, and I can easily see myself getting immersed in such a colorful world (let alone one with liquid physics, one of my weaknesses!). And for the aurally stimulated, the game is scored by composer Jon Hopkins (Monsters).

Posted in Adventure, Physics, Platformers, Puzzle, Windows | Tags: StrangeLoopGames

David Holmin

Reading the title, I felt an urge to type something along the lines of “floaty physics platformer #23”, but the atmosphere here is undeniable, and the puzzles seem to utilize the physics enough (and seem to be interesting enough) to justify using a physics engine for the gameplay. Will probably check it out.
DawdaWD

Where is this demo?
Dialock

Gee…I don’t know, maybe on Steam? Herp a’ derp…
News

spill mopping simulator
HerpMcDerp

Not enough silhouette. Needs silhouette art!

Joking. This looks pretty cool. I kinda felt like David at first thinking its another game trying to hide its platform core inside rainy atmospheres and ambient music.But it looks cool once (unlike some game videos) got the the point of why I should really care (not to knock on atmosphere-only games) which in this case is the physics liquid puzzle crap. I might have to check more of this one out!
Mr numb

wow another platformer on tigsource. shock the monkey!
Mrnumb

Even more shocking than an Indiefund game getting an IGF nomination! Gosh the indie scene dies at the exact ratio brandon boyer cashes in!
Pete Goodfellow

From what I’ve played so far, the puzzles seem very good. There’s just the right amount of cluelessness before you figure it out and feel clever.
I’ll be very interested to see if they can keep that up for the rest of the game, though.
Dialock

The indie scene is about as dead as your mom is good in bed.
David Holmin

Of all the entries currently on the front page, only 2 concern platformers, so your irony is kinda lost here. Also, many of the best games are plaformers, so I wouldn’t mind PLATFORMERsource. ;)
T1gsource

fuck you
GGringo

What the? If I wanted to play minecraft… I’D PLAY MINECRAFT?? what’s with all this minecraft ripoffs? .. amirite??
Mrnumb

my mom has uterous cancer. chemo was hard on her
GGringo

Terraria ripoff, more like.
Emailtrollbait

Three years in the making, Vesicle puts the player in the shoes of pornstar M. Jaccoph as he controls liquid automatons known as semen and tries to stroke his greatest asset, the mysterious “Asselerator.”
Mrnumb

shut this POS scumbag site down and open a new one without IGF douchebags or Derek YU and his crew of scummy little do nothings
ADollar

no wonder the front page isn’t updated very often, almost everyone commenting is a scumbag
Mrnumb

really IGF/UBM.Gamasutra/fucktards need to be shut down and beaten in the streets of san fran. Scumfucking lame asses trying to drown out real shit will get smacked. Derek Yu you are a fucking pussy with lame ass games and even lamer douchebags in your crew. Love your video from tigjam with the cocksuckers in the tesla. You fake fucks get nothing but fakeness. You fags can lie and fake your numbers all day but it dont mean shit to the real world. Fuck Derek Yu and tigsource assholes
Mrnumb

I shit in IGF execs mouth. Fake ass scumfuck can suck gabe newells fat neck. We fucking love gabes diabetes creepin him. Yall gonna get fuckedayed hard by some hard motherfuckers who want to see you lying ass scum get hit
Mrnumb

Yall including GABE NEWELL, DEREK YU, MATTHEW UNICYCLE HOMO, BRANDON BOYER, etc. We are on you like disease. YOU ARE FAKE ASS FUCKS. YOU ARE GOING DOWN
Mrnumb

IGF IS A FRAUD. DO NOT PAY TO ENTER IT IS FRAUD. I AM NOT AN ANGRY LOSER. I DO NOT ENTER SCUM CROOKS BULLSHIT LIKE IGF> YOU SCUM ARE HURTING THE HIGH ART OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA. YOU ARE GOING DOWN IN FLAMES
SirNiko

Looks pretty fun! The stiff looking animations are a bit of a turn-off, though.
Autechresaint

Love that they got Jon Hopkins to ok the sound track. His music is perfectly suited to ambient platforming.
http://bentibbetts.net/ Ben Tibbetts

Ah, this trailer makes my heart ache.
David Holmin

I hope you’re kidding.
Seikeden

looked shitty.

after playing it, it plays shitty too.

unimaginative puzzle and level design, dodgy physics, horrible animation.

it reminds me of everything bad about braid and aquaria.

it’s not like demons spawned it or something. it’s just pretty fuckin mediocre.

also associating this game with jon hopkins music has left a nasty taste in my mouth.
Snow

TIGSource needs to have registered commenting. Not sure why the trolls are targeting TIGSource, but a decent relevant comment seems to be rare these days.
trainstation

I expected this site to have a lot more support and knowledge brought to the scene. Indie Devs / fans commenting and discussing ideas with other indie devs. All I’m seeing is the same whiny gaming bitches that populate every other site, come on gamers and grow up. You’re all self entitled complainers that constantly shit on the people actually taking the time and effort to create new content.
http://s.hryx.net/ hryx

Wow, I didn’t know Jon Hopkins was doing any game soundtracks. He’s a really talented producer. If you like lush sounds that make you melt into your headphones, check his stuff out.
Adsfasd

game is missing autosave or a save warning. beware.
metaldemon

SHUT UP EVERYONE! this game is freaking amazing :)