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Portabliss: Tengami
This is Portabliss, a column about downloadable games that can be played on the go. Days after having soaked in the culture of Tokyo's suburban streets, I played Tengami for the first time, and it was the perfect set up to blow me away. Nyamyam's point-and-click (or point-and-tap) adventure draws inspiration from Japanese fairy tales, and when you see it in action for the first time it certainly feels magical. Its papercraft world, glossed in subtle, flowing shades of red, green, and blue, folds in and out frame-by-frame through some meticulous 3D wizardry. Sliding to turn and fold the paper of its pop-up landscape is an elegant pleasure, and walking in its world and visiting its lovingly detailed shrines makes me wish I'd really taken the time to explore Tokyo's rich history, rather than spending all my hours and yen in Akihabara arcades – that was great too, but still. Tengami is the creation of a three-man team, which explains why it took more than three years to create. As Nyamyam's Jennifer Schneidereit told me in September, a good year or so was spent on the 3D digital editor that makes the game's pop-ups mirror the physics of paper. The technical aspects run even deeper, like how the book's look and feel is based on a natural Japanese paper that has watercolor-like gradients, or how its puzzling temples have their roots in the schematics of real Japanese shrines.
Open the book on pop-up papercraft adventure Tengami this week
Nyamnam's three-man team of former Rare devs is releasing its debut game, Tengami, on iOS this week. Styled as a pop-up adventure book deriving from Japanese arts and crafts, Tengami takes players through a fairytale story as they tug, slide, and fold its colorful world to unravel the puzzles within. Tengami is priced $5/£3/4.49 euros, and it's coming to iPhone and iPad on February 20. If you're interested but Apple-less, the good news is it's also due on Wii U, Windows PC, and Mac sometime this summer. [Image: Nyamyam]
Tengami trailer pops up, is gorgeous
Tengami has stayed beneath the covers for a while, but it's clearly benefited from all that beauty sleep. The brainchild of three-man indie team Nyamyam, Tengami takes a story drawn from Japanese fairy tales and transforms it into a pop-up puzzle rich in color. That said, you'll have to find your own forest and babbling brook to play it by. Tengami comes to iOS in early 2014, before turning the page onto Wii U, Windows PC and Mac later in the year.
Ex-Rare team pops up with paper-style adventure game Tengami
UK indie Nyamyam sent us this trailer for its upcoming iPad, PC and Mac game Tengami, and we endeavored to share it with you because look at it. Tengami is an "explorative adventure game" that takes place inside a pop-up-book, with a world made out of Japanese-style art.Nyamyam's team is made up of former Rare staff. "Before going indie we worked on games such as Starfox Adventures, Kameo, and [Perfect Dark Zero]," co-founder Jennifer Schneidereit told us. Now it has an IndieCade-nominated game that's due next summer.
