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.

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