Braid

Indie Hit Braid Now Available On Impulse
Stardock announced today that the smash hit Braid has arrived for PC on Stardock’s digital download platform, Impulse, for $14.95

Braid Developer Changes Price on Braid Downloads
Impulse to Honor all Preorders at $14.95

Braid Hits Impulse – Preorders Now Available
Stardock Corporation announced today that preorders for the highly anticipated PC version of Number None Inc.’s smash hit Braid are now available on Impulse for $19.95

Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where the player manipulates the flow of time in strange and unusual ways. From a house in the city, journey to a series of worlds and solve puzzles to rescue an abducted princess. In each world, you have a different power to affect the way time behaves, and it is time's strangeness that creates the puzzles. The time behaviors include: the ability to rewind, objects that are immune to being rewound, time that is tied to space, parallel realities, time dilation, and perhaps more. Braid treats your time and attention as precious; there is no filler in this game. Every puzzle shows you something new and interesting about the game world.

• Forgiving yet challenging gameplay: Braid is a 2-D platform game where you can never die and never lose. Despite this, Braid is challenging—but the challenge is about solving puzzles, rather than forcing you to replay tricky jumps.
• Rich puzzle environment: Travel through a series of worlds searching for puzzle pieces, then solving puzzles by manipulating time: rewinding, creating parallel universes, setting up pockets of dilated time. The gameplay feels fresh and new; the puzzles are meant to inspire new ways of thinking.
• Aesthetic design: A painterly art style and lush, organic soundtrack complement the unique gameplay.
• Nonlinear story: A nonlinear fiction links the various worlds and provides real-world metaphors for your time manipulations; in turn, your time manipulations are projections of the real-world themes into playful "what-if" universes where consequences can be explored.
• Nonlinear gameplay: The game doesn't force you to solve puzzles in order to proceed. If you can't figure something out, just play onward and return to that puzzle later.

Minimum:

• Microsoft Windows XP

Impulse Requirements:

• Windows XP/Vista
• Internet Explorer 7.0
• Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0
• Athlon/Pentium III (1GHz or higher)
• 12MB RAM
• 1GB HD space recommended

* Impulse must be installed in order to download and update software.

Coming to Stardock's Impulse platform. Braid is due for launch via Steam on March 31, 2009

Digital Download will be available on GamersGate end of March, 2009.

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