Tuesday, August 5, 2014

The summer's most stylish game is made of infographics


Video game levels are dangerous: Mario has to deal with lava-spewing pits, while Solid Snake slips through heavily guarded enemy buildings in Metal Gear Solid. Metrico for the PS Vita, on the other hand, puts you in a world made of something much more mundane: infographics. The game asks you to navigate puzzles made of bar graphs and pie charts. It's not the most obvious inspiration for a game, but it works. "It is all about communication in composition," Geert Nellen, one-third of Dutch game studio Digital Dreams, says of infographic design, "which makes it perfect for games." And despite its seemingly strange concept, Metrico is an impossibly stylish and uniquely challenging experience.


Metrico looks and controls like a traditional...


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