Big Games of 2012: Airtight Games Kim Swift Serves Up a Quantum Conundrum

One of the creators of Portal introduces a first-person platform puzzle game through Square Enix

Square Enix will publish Airtight Games Quantum Conundrum, a first-person platform puzzle game that’s sure to be one of the big downloadable games of 2012. The game comes from the mind of Kim Swift, the co-creator of Valve’s Portal. Gamers will be able to download this title via Steam (PC), PlayStation Network (PS3) and Xbox LIVE Arcade (Xbox 360). Swift talks about the new game in this exclusive video interview.

 

 

In Quantum Conundrum, players take on the role of a young kid dropped off on his uncle's doorstep for the weekend; his uncle just so happens to be the brilliant, eccentric inventor, Professor Fitz Quadwrangle. Upon entering the Professor's vast manor home retrofitted with crazy technology to test his latest hypotheses, players quickly realize their uncle has gone missing. Fortunately, players soon gain access to Professor Quadwrangle's latest invention, the Inter-Dimensional Shift Device, which, at the press of a button, will shift the world around them to an entirely new dimension. In order to find him, players must use the newly found IDS Device to dynamically change the world to and from a variety of different dimensions to progress through the complicated Quadwrangle Manor.