Cloud: Fly through the air

2.jpgDon’t you just love those dreams where you end up flying through a foreign landscape? Wouldn’t it make a cool video game? That’s what Thatgamecompany–the same people who brought us the lovely, abstract protozoic flOw game–thought. Cloud is their action flight game that allows you to realize your lifelong dreams of imaginative flight, at the same time you can manipulate clouds to create weather. “A childhood dream simulator” is how many of its fans describe it. It is a unique game; a relaxing, non-stressful, meditative experience that is familiar to players of flOw

The game is completed as a USC game innovation lab research project. It contains four major tutorial levels, representing four different dreams from the child’s point of view, which help players understand how to play the game. There are also ten extra mini-levels for players to enjoy the game features introduced in the training levels.