The Spectrum Retreat Comes to PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch This Year

<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"wrmzDe72eeI" title&equals;"The Spectrum Retreat - Gameplay with Developer Commentary"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;wrmzDe72eeI"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;wrmzDe72eeI&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"The Spectrum Retreat - Gameplay with Developer Commentary"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dan Smith&comma; the BAFTA Young Game Designer winner&comma; has partnered with Ripstone Games&period; The publisher&comma; in collaboration with Dan Smith&comma; shared <em>The Spectrum Retreat<&sol;em>&&num;8216&semi;s first gameplay footage&period; The first-person puzzle game is set in the near future&period; The gameplay video above provides eleven minutes of gameplay with commentary&period; It showcases the opening sequence of the game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>The Spectrum Retreat<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Players awaken in Penrose Hotel&period; With an art-deco style&comma; it is very classical and colorful&period; But it also has a hyper-modern and clinical feel in some areas&period; You&&num;8217&semi;re not sure why you&&num;8217&semi;re there or how you got there&period; But you have a unique cellphone-like device&period;  A voice lets you know that it&&num;8217&semi;s more than a phone and that you should keep it hidden&period; It can manipulate colors in the environment&period; This offers access through color-coded barriers and obstacles&period; At the end of every puzzle&comma; you reach a pod that takes you to the next one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Spectrum Retreat&&num;8217&semi;s narrative arc plays a large role&comma; as stated by Dan Smith&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;<em>Something else I wanted to explore with this game was having quite a unique gameplay and narrative structure&period; The way the narrative is structured in comparison to the gameplay with respect to the gameplay is quite unique&period; We have more than just chain puzzles&&num;8230&semi;What we do have is somewhat of a hub world&&num;8230&semi;but it&&num;8217&semi;s more than a hub world&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s also a gameplay space&period; More so a very involved space as far as the narrative is concerned<&sol;em>&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Penrose hotel is a peaceful refuge from the outside world&period; Set in the near future&comma; players control a &&num;8220&semi;valued guest&&num;8221&semi; as he explores the mysterious&comma; art-deco hotel&period; Mind-bending physics challenges and color-coded first-person puzzles hide the hotel&&num;8217&semi;s true intentions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4>About Dan Smith Studios<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><em>Dan Smith Studios is an independent game development studio&comma; represented by Dan Smith&period; It was founded in 2016&period; Its focus has been on the development of first-person puzzle game &OpenCurlyQuote;The Spectrum Retreat&period; This is due for a 2018 release for PC and consoles&period; Dan Smith is a BAFTA YGD Game Making Award winner and Computer Science student at the University of Leeds&period; He is based mainly in Newcastle and Leeds&comma; England&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4>About Ripstone Games<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><em>Ripstone is an independent games label that fully funds the development&comma; distribution&comma; marketing and sales of games made by indie teams worldwide&period; Founded in 2011 by publishing and film industry veterans&comma; to date they have financed and published 15 games across 14 platforms and have worldwide sales in excess of 10 million units&period; Their focus is on supporting indie developers to make games for PC and home consoles&comma; making sure gamers know about them&comma; and rewarding the talent for it&period; <&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Ripstone&&num;8217&semi;s back catalog includes Ironcast&comma; Stick It To The Man&comma; Pure Pool&comma; and Extreme Exorcism&period; <&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;