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Braid

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Game Information

Original Release Date: August 06, 2008

Platforms: Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Involved Companies: Number None Inc., Hothead Games, icculus.org, Number None Inc., Microsoft Game Studios

Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Strategy, Adventure, Indie

Summary: Braid is a puzzle-platformer, drawn in a painterly style, where you can manipulate 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.

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This work is part of CSCI E-114, Web Application Development with Jamstack, Harvard Extension School. All video game data was obtained from The Internet Game Database (IGDB).