Hot on the heels of our website’s redesign we’re back to release a brand new game!

Up and Atom is a collaboration between me (Dan) and three other students from my class.  At the beginning, we were given the topic of “Physics.”  Now, our first idea wasn’t quite what our game became.  Originally it was going to be an action platformer with physics elements, like: a gun that would shoot black holes, or switches that could change the direction of gravity, but we quickly realized that what we had in mind was pretty much just a standard platformer. 

We didn’t want to just make another platformer (I should probably say “platformer” one more time), we wanted to try something different.  Most of the ideas we tried coming up with failed, until someone suggested to us that we look into molecular physics, and that’s when it all started coming together.

Up and Atom is a molecular puzzle game.  At its core the game is about bonding atoms together to form molecules.  Molecules have to be made in an alternating fashion, meaning the color of the first atom must match every odd numbered atom, the even numbered atoms in between can be whatever color you want though (including the color of the starting atom).  To help mix things up, there are also “special” atoms peppered throughout the board.  These specials include radioactive atoms that will blow up the finished chain, or the solid atom (yeah it doesn’t make much sense…  but whatever) which can’t be used in a combo and must be destroyed by the other special atoms.

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