TLR Games announces that IDEA, their physics-based exploration platforming game and IndieCade Award Winner for Best Visual Design, has received a major update. To celebrate it, the game will have a 50% discount on PC during the Steam Summer Sale and will be available for $5.99/€5,99. The Android version of the game is now available as well for $3.99 / €3,99. You can watch IDEA’s release trailer below.
ABOUT IDEA’S MAJOR UPDATE
IDEA‘s first major update includes the following features:
- You can reset your progress to start again from scratch
- Ideas can now be up to 100-characters long
- Improved the network settings (and now you will get a notification it there’s an issue with your connection)
- Improved UI
- A network window has been added
- Better management of Ideas
- It’s now easier to find other players Ideas
- Endings show more Ideas
- You can filter Ideas by language
- You can filter Ideas by priority
- You can ban some Ideas or fav their authors (their ideas will always appear on top of the Idea list)
- You can ban some Ideas or fav them (the ones from these users will always appear on top of the Idea list)
- Fixed some language issues
- Achievements are now visible so players can complete them
- Tutorial will now start automatically for new players
- Ideas are now cross-platform
ABOUT THE GAME
Inspired by the award-winning short film of the same name by Olli Huttunen, IDEA is a physics-based exploration game with platforming elements that invites players to discover a beautiful, savage world as they help their ideas find their place in the world.
The game sets you on a journey of awe-inspiring beauty, exploring gorgeous landscapes from a bird’s eye view recorded in 4K resolution, with no loading times between screens. Spark an idea, represented by a white lightbulb, and send it forth to find its place in the world. Watch your idea from the sky, bouncing and falling, and help it when it gets stuck before the music ends.
If you find your destination, your idea will bloom into a piece of visual art, a short clip of beauty and marvel. But sometimes, it won’t be able to advance, and its journey will end there – but it won’t be for anything: it can help other people’s ideas in the future, or even yourself. Write a thought, a piece of a song, or a verse, and share it. Now is out there, forever, for all the world to see. And when you begin a new journey, you’ll see other people’s ideas. Save your favourite ones, and see how many people have saved yours.
IDEA has won several awards since it was announced in early 2022, and became finalist of the prestigious Sense of Wonder Night at the Tokyo Games Show, last September. The game follows similar principles as The Longest Road on Earth (of which TLR Games are co-creators): a soothing, poetic experience, focused on the feelings and meanings that the intersection between art, music, and gameplay can create.
