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Blumenmacht Takes Flower Power To Psychedeliatown

- Got a note from author Urs Regli (yeah, I believe that's his real name - he's Swiss!) about his very neat-looking PC indie title Blumenmacht, "...a unique mixture of shoot'em up and memory game play. The nonviolent game comes with a colourful flower power theme and is controlled only with the mouse."

Ah, and here's a YouTube video of Blumenmacht. So what's it about? Uhm, well: "In Blumenmacht Ballerinas are joining a flowerpower pogo dance. You are in control of the Ballerina who takes the leading part. She is the Prima Ballerina. To win a dance your Prima Ballerina has to throw flowers at the other Ballerinas until they are all happy. They try to do the same with your Prima Ballerina. But if they succeed and your Prima Ballerina is happy, you lost the dance."

Urs continues of the project, which has a GameDev.net blog: "To become a successful Blumenmacht player you need your imagination. Two examples illustrate this challenge: 1) As you can take control of each Ballerina, there are no real enemies in Blumenmacht. Fleeing from a more talented Ballerina is actually a bad idea. Just turn the tables! Left click her and take control of her. Now the advantage is on your side. 2) After you stopped time with a right mouse click, catch a Ballerina (hold left mouse key) and move her through flowers to make her happy. This would be as if Neo would move his opponents through bullets while time is slowed down in the matrix. In Blumenmacht this is called "blossom time"." Unique stuff!

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