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Amazing, right? This could be the title of an Onion article. When Portal designer, Kim Swift, left Valve a couple of years ago to join Airtight Games (developers of Dark Void), I thought... well, I thought she might be insane. But I knew that whatever project she was working would certainly be one to keep an eye on. Well, that game was at PAX. And I didn't see it. I blame Sweet Tooth. In truth, I just forgot about it completely. I saw people walking around the show floor in these giant silly pink hats, and the first thought in my head was: what shitty free-to-play MMO is handing those out? Apparently the Quantum Conundrum booth was handing them out. And apparently, they were also showing a brilliant game from Portal designer, Kim Swift. Fuck my life.

So Quantum Conundrum is a puzzle game. This is where I would start talking about how fun it was to play, but you see, I didn't play it. So how about we just watch Kim Swift play the demo? YAY!

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    Cramoss
    13 years, 10 months ago

    Looks interesting.. I like this kind of games specially when you consider that this is from the Portal designer.

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    Muddy_Donuts
    13 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks for this, I have not heard much about the game so this is a pleasant surprise.

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    SomethingSnappy
    13 years, 10 months ago

    dude this game looks sweet!

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    ShilohDeGreat
    13 years, 10 months ago

    Very cool. At first I thought, "Shifting dimensions? So it's like Portal?" But then after watching it, it's something totally new and entirely awesome. Shame you didn't get to play it.

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    Rhineville
    13 years, 10 months ago

    :0 Need it.

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    J52
    13 years, 10 months ago

    I also thought Pink-Hat-Game was probably something dumb. Whyyyy.

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    NicTheBatman
    13 years, 10 months ago

    Oooh shit this has potential.

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    HatMan
    13 years, 10 months ago

    I never heard of this until now so this was a pleasant surprise. It seems to have a lot of humor to it, I'll have to check this out.

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    JTC545
    13 years, 10 months ago

    This is looking REALLY good....sorry about you missing dat demo and stuff, that sweet tooth is very convincing with his murdering ways and all.

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    erumaro87
    13 years, 10 months ago

    This looks like a cool game. Keeping my eyes on this.
    And I like that this is for PC to so I can play it. :)

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    Bloodgatts
    13 years, 10 months ago

    Looks pretty cool.

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    Comradebearjew
    13 years, 10 months ago

    Looks amazing

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    Boomstick_Chameleon
    13 years, 10 months ago

    Looks like another great quality game. It also looks a little deceiving. All of the puzzles in this demo looked fairly simple and straight-forward, but I have a feeling it's gonna pull an "N+" and make all the puzzles after 10-25% through fucking impossible.

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    Zladko
    13 years, 10 months ago

    Oh man I can't wait, it looks great.

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    Pokop
    13 years, 10 months ago

    That is fucking cool, dude.

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    Brightbitsofshrapnel
    13 years, 10 months ago

    As a huge fan of puzzle games and Portal, I am elated. Looking forward to thinking in IDS rather than portals :3

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    fallouttalove3
    13 years, 10 months ago

    reminds me of the physics puzzles in limbo, and i kinda like the idea of switching rapidly between dimensions to get a job done.

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    CrossOutlaw
    13 years, 10 months ago

    puzzles look coo, but im sad to see it resemble portal too much to my liking. I mean now people might compare it to portal in a lot of ways. Safe (cube) on button to open chamber to next area? How about a robot named "dolly" that "watches" u in each chamber? I know the puzzles will be great, but for the story and characters..I'm not too sure. I hope this does well though

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    Ben Alford
    13 years, 10 months ago

    If only someone told you to go see it... ;)

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    Soulglove
    13 years, 10 months ago

    The ability to turn heavy into light!
    Make fast go slow!
    Make down go up!
    Fascinating!
    ...

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    RedAmarillo131
    13 years, 10 months ago

    Certainly reminds me of Portal with its humor and puzzles, but I can still see this as a unique game. I think there is going to be some fun to have with just dynamicly riding on safes while not being able to figure out a puzzle.

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    CocoPanda
    13 years, 10 months ago

    This looks rad!

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    kickliquid
    13 years, 10 months ago

    It's like Valve's Portal meets Double Fine

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    OlMuttonchops
    13 years, 10 months ago

    I'm not a huge fan of puzzle games, but this looks pretty sweet.

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    Legitcheater
    13 years, 10 months ago

    That painting looks TF2-ish.

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    lemith
    13 years, 10 months ago

    i want it!

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    Faxwell23
    13 years, 10 months ago

    I'm going to have to seriously consider buying this.

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    Rawkmaster
    13 years, 10 months ago

    From the looks of that painting the reverse gravity will make things that float drop down which could make for some interesting puzzles.

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    pjunk
    13 years, 10 months ago

    I heard "interdimensional riffs" and feared some sort of Portal rip-off shenanigans. That went away as soon as I saw the gameplay. These are some really awesome looking puzzles and I love the physics. The "sine wave" movement idea really impressed me, and I love how it all came together.

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    GioThermal
    13 years, 10 months ago

    Very interesting and it seems to have some subtle comedy around the game like portal 1, which I personally liked better. I guess that's too be expected from a portal designer.
    Thanks for the article Brad

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    AkumaBear
    13 years, 9 months ago

    The "slow time" dimension looks really cool. I hope there's more than 4 dimensions in the final game.

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    Anon
    13 years, 9 months ago

    Portal 2.5

    Whatever, moving along.

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    Glenn
    13 years, 9 months ago

    I love portal.

    This looks awsome to. And since its just a XBLA title its only gonna be 1200 msp so imma buy it.

    Allthough i might see them changing it to a retail game later on.

    Anyhow i will follow it seeign if it gets any co-op and how much the full length of the game is.