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Edge (probably the best overall videogame magazine still in print) recently ran a feature on Kokoromi‘s GAMMA 3D challenge. The focus of the event was stereoscopic imaging in videogames; in layman’s terms, the red and blue glasses that make things “3D.” Jason Rohrer‘s Passage made waves after last year’s GAMMA 256 challenge, so I was curious to see what Kokoromi’s latest event would showcase.

Well, Fireflies definitely looked interesting, as did all the other entries, really, but most of them haven’t yet been made public. The demo of Infinite Ammo‘s Paper Moon is available right now, though, so I decided to check it out.

The intro to the surreal Paper Moon.

Bullets:

• Obviously, a stereoscopic graphic presentation.
• All art consists of jagged paper cutouts.  The art was initially hand-drawn on paper with a Sharpie, then scanned in and touched up in Photoshop.
• Jumping is only accompanied by “shifting,” a mechanic that — in real-time — swaps the layer property of certain on-screen objects. This effectively pushes things into the background pulls them into the foreground, with the character usually finding himself somewhere in between.
• Death is not really penalized on account of frequent checkpoints and unlimited continues, and it’s actually required to solve some of the puzzles.
• Paper Moon contains a hard, 5 minute time-limit, but that’s simply a result of Kokoromi’s submission guidelines.