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Letting Things Slide Into Place With Coign Of Vantage
Posted by Kotaku US Edition at 1:00 PM on August 15, 2008
New game mechanic detected! At least, I think it's a game. You get a score at the end, so I guess it counts as a game even if it feels more like a sort of zen exercise you might do to calm the mind after post-traumatic stress.
Coign of Vantage (sounds like Engrish, but actually means 'an advantageous position') is a flash game from casual games people Bobblebrook.
You have to use your mouse to rotate an image that has been exploded into voxels (3D pixels) until it matches the un-exploded image in the corner of the screen. When you do that, you get points and more time to play the next image. Thats it.
Its weirdly addictive in that lunchtime minesweeper-grinding kind of way. Some of the high scores imply people glued to their mice for weeks, so tread carefully if you tend to get sucked into things like this.
Coign of Vantage [via Wonderland]
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Gavbot
Posted 1:36 PM 15/8/08
Managed to get to the 28th image
Gavbot
MrBionic
Posted 1:35 PM 15/8/08
Of course, then you get to the point where you're trying to assemble one of the images *UPSIDE DOWN* and you don't clue in for a bit, and you're starting to scream at the screen that *IT BLOODY WELL WON'T FINISH, HOW DAMN ACCURATE DO I HAVE TO...* oh. Bloody hell. It's upside down.
Fail.
MrBionic
マンゼクスSythe
Posted 1:32 PM 15/8/08
@Atheist Jew: Yeah, I figured that out when I only had about 10 seconds left. >_>
I was wondering how people got so high scores at first.
マンゼクスSythe
Posted 1:31 PM 15/8/08
Coign of vantage does not sound like engrish. It sounds like engrish to you.
Ryakudatsu
Posted 1:23 PM 15/8/08
Pretty cool idea but the execution is like an intro to carpal tunnel for me. the slow locking in of the image is causing some pain...
Ryakudatsu
waterhand
Posted 1:20 PM 15/8/08
I could have done better, but I was lost in the eye candy. Amazing!
waterhand
Moonshadow101
Posted 1:19 PM 15/8/08
Aye, pretty repetitive. Way I saw it, the pixels always scattered into the same sort of cone shape, and you just need to orient the pointy part to face you.
Still pretty interesting.
Moonshadow101
kylenalepa
Posted 1:16 PM 15/8/08
It's a really cool idea, but like Atheist Jew said, really simple once you figure out the trick. Still fun, though.
kylenalepa
Atheist Jew
Posted 1:13 PM 15/8/08
Once you figure out the trick to it, there's no challenge at all.
Of course, that doesn't stop it from being very cool.
*HINT*
The trick is to find the group of pixels that are farthest away from the camera when each new "stage" starts and rotate them around so that the camera is looking right at them. Do this and each puzzle should take you between 3 and 5 seconds or so to finish!
Atheist Jew
Posted 1:12 PM 15/8/08
@マンゼクスSythe: I couldn't help but be reminded of picross. Both in it's pixel block image design and awkward addictiveness.
マンゼクスSythe
Posted 1:07 PM 15/8/08
Cool, it reminds me somewhat of Picross, somewhat.
マンゼクスSythe
charliew77
Posted 1:51 PM 15/8/08
Coolness. I likey.
charliew77
Yalecsa
Posted 2:15 PM 15/8/08
Oh! So THAT'S what a voxel is! XD It all makes sense finally!
Yalecsa
RoboSheep
Posted 2:42 PM 15/8/08
Wow, that Stop sign one needs to be reworked a bit.
RoboSheep
Posted 2:31 PM 15/8/08
Pretty cool. I got 27 on my first try and 43 on my second. It's really annoying when you're like one pixel away from the image and keep rotating around it for a few seconds...
Neverkilled: The complete series
Posted 2:30 PM 15/8/08
ah, nothing like a pointless artsy game to draw me in and take my life.
the wonders of the internet.
Neverkilled: The complete series
Posted 3:29 PM 15/8/08
Anyone else get the feeling fine mouse control was more important than spacial perception? I never even looked at the image on the side.
EmeraldCockroach
Posted 4:29 PM 15/8/08
74th image, 2nd attempt and i'm spent, tea anyone?
EmeraldCockroach
boopadoo
Posted 5:18 PM 15/8/08
That was impressive! Like the others have said, once you figure out the pattern, then the image you have to match doesn't really matter anymore, and the music is a little annoying, but the variety of images and the overall polish of the game is a huge accomplishment. Port it to DS, and you'll be set, Bobblebrook.
boopadoo
Timooo
Posted 9:20 PM 15/8/08
I LOVE THIS GAME!
Timooo
Mobus
Posted 9:49 PM 15/8/08
Awesome. 8)
Mobus
Recusor
Posted 10:21 PM 15/8/08
first time i got 21 images score of 160 k, second time i got 650 k. 70 something pictures. trick is fun, motor control is hard :P
Recusor
Jorw
Posted 2:11 AM 16/8/08
Pretty fun, but way too easy. All you have to do is move the camera to where the smallest pixels are.
Jorw
Fonzy
Posted 4:04 AM 16/8/08
pretty damn easy, but great concept
Fonzy
.em.
Posted 6:24 AM 16/8/08
@Atheist Jew:
Yeah, i figured that out myself!
I got 17 finished for about 91500 points.
.em.