iPad

Gua-Le-Ni, or: The Horrendous Parade

Description

Gua-Le-Ni; or, The Horrendous Parade, is an action-puzzle casual videogame for the Apple iPad.

One of its most distinguishing traits is that the game solely takes place on the wooden desk of an old, befuddled British taxonomist. On his desk, lies a fantastic book: a bestiary populated by impossible, finely drawn animals. Not unlike all the monsters of myths and folklores, Gua-Le-Ni’s impossible beasts are combinations of parts of real animals. To understand what I mean, it might help to think of fantastic creatures like the sphinx, the Minotaur, different chimeras or even South Park’s Manbearpig.

Such animal parts can vary from two to four animal parts. Each animal part, either a head or a body part, is reproduced on a taxonomic cube that can be rotated, flipped and moved until it matches the corresponding part of the passing animal. The goal of the game is precisely that of reconstructing the animals before they reach the end of the page-screen and disappear. When a match between the paper beast and the beast represented on the upper faces of the taxonomic cubes is accomplished, points are scored.

Different game modes are present in the game's fantastic bestiary, some of which are purely focusing on mnemonic tasks, on action mechanics such as feeding and optimized manipulation of the taxonomic cubes.

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The Press Says

iPad Game Reviews	Aug 22, 2012		100
Joystick Division	Dec 07, 2011	5 out of 5	100
Eurogamer.it	Jan 18, 2012	9 out of 10	90
148apps	Dec 12, 2011		90
NG-Gamer	Jan 19, 2012	87 out of 100	87
Indie Game Magazine	Sep 03, 2012	83 out of 100	83
The Indie Mine	Sep 11, 2012		80
Touch Arcade	Nov 29, 2011		80
Slide to Play	Jan 17, 2012	3 out of 4	75
Calm Down Tom	Dec 07, 2011	7 out of 10	70

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