Kim Swift Introduces the World to a Quantum Conundrum

I was really hoping that this would involve actual dimensions a la this awesome video, but oh well. 
 
Also, if everything weighs 10 times less in the fluffy dimension, wouldn't it require a tenth of the force to do whatever the switch is doing, thus making the fluffy safe capable of activating it? I AM UNCONVINCED BY THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THIS FLUFFY DIMENSION.

@Chadster: resistance wouldn't be based on weight, it would be based on material properties. Honestly, it probably wouldn't work at all when all the wires got turned to... fabric? Fluff...?

Looks really cool. I really like the look of the game, and the gameplay seems like it could evolve to have some pretty significant depth.

Kim Swift sounds like an awesome pornstar name.

Kim Swift is okay, but Commander Keen was always my favorite.

Really really digging the art style of this. It does look a lot like Portal, but I'm optimistic that it can be original and stand alone on its own. 

Game looks super fun! I love well made puzzlers.

Also GAAAAME DEMOO!

So, Portal4Kidz. You left VALVe to produce this?

the artstyle is a bit kiddy but the puzzles look interesting enough

That looks pretty interesting.

Saw the first 3½ minutes, and don't really want to see more before I buy this game. Looks like it could be really fun!

I love it when Kim go aheads.

Gotta say, this looks pretty amazing. And yes, certainly does appear to be based on the core design structure of Portal. That's not a fault though.

Well, it could've been cool. I was hoping for something more Blinx-ish or challenging. Nah, it's just boring Portal-esque puzzles. Also, yeah, Kim should never do a demo again.

Ah that's better :)

Looks fantastic. Nice, original idea and a great art style. I just really wish it weren't in first person. If platforming plays a part, than it should be in third person. Also, it would avoid the Portal comparisons. NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE FIRST PERSON, WESTERN DEVELOPERS!  I'll still play it, of course, it's just annoying. Especially with the great style; a main character could be incredibly charming in this game....too bad you'll never see him/her.
 
Oh, and I welcome more female developers if they keep bringing ideas more original than "be a soldier and shoot many dudes who are cartoonishly unamerican".

I demand a Meat Dimension.

Strange, she left Valve and works on a game very, very similar to Portal when she could've been working on Portal 2.

Love the part where Kim flubs her own puzzle. She should hook up with Brad...

Looks Portal-y, looks awesome.

That was really cool. I am looking forward to this

Looks interesting but weirdly alot like Portal, finding ways to weigh down buttons to open doors?

Great ideas for the gameplay mechanics.  
 
@cikame said:

Looks interesting but weirdly alot like Portal, finding ways to weigh down buttons to open doors?

Looks good, love the art style. Yeah, it seems to play like Portal, which will either be good or bad (i.e., playing too much like Portal). One thing I can say for certain is that I hope it's actually challenging.

More of this, please. Much more of this.

Strange, she left Valve and works on a game very, very similar to Portal when she could've been working on Portal 2.

Man, I thought this was just going to be a ripoff of Miegakure, but this looks pretty bad. Absolutely none of the cool mathematical concepts.

Looks like the puzzles could be quite good and get nicely complicated, however the story seems a bit like an after thought.
 
You need a pretty good story to drive this sort of game.

The real question is, would there even BE a fluffy dimension if the lead designer was a male?

man this was a real disappointment.  I was hoping for some real exploration of mathematical spatial dimensions.  maybe that was hoping for too much.  But Portal 1.5 with bad art and textures... mistaking momentum and velocity .. bummer.
 
Swapping out shader code while making some real-time changes to basic parameters of an off-the-shelf physics engine isn't all that interesting.

man this was a real disappointment.  I was hoping for some real exploration of mathematical spatial dimensions.  maybe that was hoping for too much.  But Portal 1.5 with bad art and textures... mistaking momentum and velocity .. bummer.  Swapping out shader code while making some real-time changes to basic parameters of an off-the-shelf physics engine isn't all that interesting.

Portal Lite. Also.. Hey Gamespot?

gamespot? 
 
GAMESPOT?

@tourgen said:

man this was a real disappointment. I was hoping for some real exploration of mathematical spatial dimensions. maybe that was hoping for too much. But Portal 1.5 with bad art and textures... mistaking momentum and velocity .. bummer. Swapping out shader code while making some real-time changes to basic parameters of an off-the-shelf physics engine isn't all that interesting.

I couldn't find where she confuses momentum and velocity. But momentum isn't conserved if you change the mass and the velocity stays the same, which appears to be what is happening here.

Nice concepts, but man the art direction is not at all what I would hoped. I wasn't really expecting a light-hearted puzzler that resemble the same way how Portal did things. I doubt it will be able to escape comparisons to Portal with Kim Swift being the leading figure in this project. I'm not sure how I feel about this. Cautiously optimistic.

Story definitely seems like an after-thought; especially so when compared to the genius of Erik Wolpaw, Chet Faliszek, and Jay Pinkerton.

Fluffy dimension!

People pretending interest here, I wonder if you gave The Ball a shot at all. Probably not, GB didn't tell you to give a shit about The Ball.

Sold.  :)

@Chadster: resistance wouldn't be based on weight, it would be based on material properties. Honestly, it probably wouldn't work at all when all the wires got turned to... fabric? Fluff...?

Looks really cool. I really like the look of the game, and the gameplay seems like it could evolve to have some pretty significant depth.

People pretending interest here, I wonder if you gave The Ball a shot at all. Probably not, GB didn't tell you to give a shit about The Ball.

The real question is, would there even BE a fluffy dimension if the lead designer was a male?

man this was a real disappointment.  I was hoping for some real exploration of mathematical spatial dimensions.  maybe that was hoping for too much.  But Portal 1.5 with bad art and textures... mistaking momentum and velocity .. bummer.  Swapping out shader code while making some real-time changes to basic parameters of an off-the-shelf physics engine isn't all that interesting.

Looks bloody awesome though really contrived like occasional moments in Portal.

@Klei said:

I... don't really care. I'm one of those wierdos who thought that Portal was just average.

That's okay, there's nothing wrong with being wrong.

I like the concept of it and your abilities.
 
Btw, please fix that video, I actually had to go to Gamespot to watch it

Looks pretty interesting. I definitely want to see more!

@ryanwho said:

People pretending interest here, I wonder if you gave The Ball a shot at all. Probably not, GB didn't tell you to give a shit about The Ball.

What a weirdly aggressive way to tell people to check out The Ball.

@tourgen said:

man this was a real disappointment. I was hoping for some real exploration of mathematical spatial dimensions. maybe that was hoping for too much. But Portal 1.5 with bad art and textures... mistaking momentum and velocity .. bummer. Swapping out shader code while making some real-time changes to basic parameters of an off-the-shelf physics engine isn't all that interesting.

I couldn't find where she confuses momentum and velocity. But momentum isn't conserved if you change the mass and the velocity stays the same, which appears to be what is happening here.

But the real bit where I disagree is the whole "changing basic parameters of the physics engine" bit. Tetris is a game that can be coded in a calculator that runs a couple of basic checks and has a grand total of one advanced mechanic. 
I don't know how early or late this is in the game, although it seemed to be tutorializing quite a bit at this point, but a lot of the design elements there are pretty good. 
Just seeing how she breaks down the demo is interesting if you're into game design. She goes through every iteration of things to try, follows the puzzle logic and the learning process and the elements of the puzzle are displayed clearly and in the right places. 

@NoelVeiga said:

But the real bit where I disagree is the whole "changing basic parameters of the physics engine" bit. Tetris is a game that can be coded in a calculator that runs a couple of basic checks and has a grand total of one advanced mechanic. 
I don't know how early or late this is in the game, although it seemed to be tutorializing quite a bit at this point, but a lot of the design elements there are pretty good. 
Just seeing how she breaks down the demo is interesting if you're into game design. She goes through every iteration of things to try, follows the puzzle logic and the learning process and the elements of the puzzle are displayed clearly and in the right places. 

 Changing basic parameters a la garrys mod.  Every puzzle game is basically a tutorial, every game is essentially a tutorial.  Portal 1 and 2 are especially good examples of long tutorials.  I'm into game design and watching her break down the demo looked like the controlling : thinking ratio was leaning towards more game controlling actions than puzzle thinking. (comparing to portal where it is even more minimalist. for example I don't think if that idea was in portal they would force you to plug in the battery instead of having a narrator tell you about the battery's purpose)  

@tourgen said:

man this was a real disappointment. I was hoping for some real exploration of mathematical spatial dimensions. maybe that was hoping for too much. But Portal 1.5 with bad art and textures... mistaking momentum and velocity .. bummer. Swapping out shader code while making some real-time changes to basic parameters of an off-the-shelf physics engine isn't all that interesting.

Nailed it. Seems Kim has run out of ideas.