While at indiecade this weekend, I spotted this charming-looking game that saw two people trying to navigate in a peculiar way. It turns out, it was ibb and obb, which the PlayStation blog just formally unveiled. Check out the trailer:
The post explains that it's a cooperative puzzle platformer that uses gravity, and is slated to drop sometime next spring. Though the characters may not always be walking on the same plane, they still need each other and can affect each other. Notably, aside from the puzzle sections, if one character dies, they both die. The developers note that the game was originally called brothers, because
My fondest memories of games are those that I played together with my brother or close friends. It has always surprised me how few games are really designed around two-player interaction.
With ibb and obb we’ve tried to do just that. The gameplay revolves around a world with two directions of gravity, but even more so it’s about the interaction between the players. All elements in the game are designed for two, ranging from the way you solve puzzles to handling enemies. For example, when one player takes out an enemy the other tries to be ready on the other side of the split to fetch the reward.
The blog post goes into more detail about the game, check it out here. PSN really is the place to be for indies, huh?
