Play PS3 Title flOw Right Now

The folks at the Tokyo Game show are sending back high resolution screens of titles like Heavenly Sword and Warhawk, but a smaller title that will be on the console is available to play now. Recommended by Tycho in Friday's post to Penny Arcade, the game fl0w has more to offer than just good looks. It's actually a part of a designer's thesis, using the concept of flow theory to make a title more enjoyable for the player. Despite its roots in academia, this beautiful gem may go on to have a fond place in the hearts of console gamers. Joystiq has a hands on with the PS3 version: "FlOw was running at 525p (480p) -- the graphics were akin to what we've seen the Nintendo Wii produce. We aren't sure if the title will available brick-and-mortar or as a download (or even packaged in the console's hard drive). If priced correctly, flOw could end up an essential title similar to what Geometry Wars represents for the Xbox 360 -- a small, casual game with mass appeal sold for pure profit." Download the game, and give it a try.

Comments

Yawn

[SuperKendall]

Yest another moronic anti-PS3 post, you can practically set your watch by them at this point. Perhaps, just perhaps, they would actually do something a little different or enhanced for the PS3 version? The flash version was written eons ago just to prove a point in a thesis.

Does hating Sony kill brain cells? It would appear so.

Flow "theory"? uh... DUH!

[dzfoo]

According to this new-fangled theory, an activity is only fun while we are engaged in a challenge that we can actually accomplish; and that if it gets too hard, we get anxious, while if it gets too easy, we get bored.

And they can now prove this with colorful charts and some vague numbers.

This prompts a very big and loud _DUH!_ for whomever came up with such insight.

If you need some pseudo-scientific, quasi-psychiatric thesis to understand this, perhaps you shouldn't be designing games -- GAMES!

You know, games: the epitome of fun; or so I thought.

        -dZ.

P.S.> By the way, Tycho did not recommend the game. He mentioned it as hearsay, and recommends you follow the link to where the so-called theory is explained, so that you may also be intrigued by its rationale (the one that scientifically proves that a game is only fun while you are not stomping the controller in frustration, or drooling unconscious on the couch out of boredom).