Quadrilateral Cowboy

 

 

 

 

 

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Quadrilateral Cowboy

Video game

9/10Steam 8.5/10IGN.com 85%Metacritic 

Quadrilateral Cowboy is a puzzle video game by independent developer Blendo Games. The game was released in July 2016 for Microsoft Windows, with OS X and Linux versions to come in September 2016.

Initial release date: July 25, 2016

Developer: Blendo Games

Publisher: Blendo Games

Genre: Puzzle video game

Mode: Single-player video game

Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS

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Game-play

Played from the first-person perspective, the player in Quadrilateral Cowboy uses a "deck" to hack into computer systems, and will be required to type in the code to do so.

In Quadrilateral Cowboy, the player takes the role of a computer hacker in the 1980s, armed with a "top-of-the-line hacking deck outfitted with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM". According to Brendon Chung, the sole developer behind Blendo Games, Quadrilateral Cowboy takes place in the same universe as his previous games,Gravity Bone and Thirty Flights of Loving, and shares the same "blocky" aesthetics.

Players will be required to perform heists from buildings, overcoming their various security systems.

The game is played from the first-person perspective. The player acts as the hacker overseeing one or more adept agents that have missions to infiltrate buildings and steal documents. Each agent has a different set of abilities; in addition to the player's hacker with their Deck, another character will have a saw to break through doors, while another will be able to climb and move quickly through levels.The player will experience what the agents would see throughvirtual reality goggles that relay what they see to the hacker character. When the agents encounter locked doors, cameras, and other security features, the player, as the hacker, will have to create a program – typing this as code on their physical keyboards – that manipulates the security features without setting off additional alarms to allow the agents to sneak by. An example shown in an early preview is using the code cam8.off(3) to disable "Camera 8" for 3 seconds; disabling the camera any longer would raise a security alert.As such, the player must create the program with appropriate timing to allow them to make it through the various obstacles without triggering additional alarms. Through the game, the player will gain access to other gadgets, like a rover to scout and collect objects; these too can be programmed by the player to aid in the heist.

The heists are planned out in a virtual reality simulator within the game, the Heist Planner. This allows the player, as the hacker, to adjust the control and timing of the agents and intrusions within the system. This area will also provide a primitive in-game tutorial system for the player to learn the hacking mechanics, with instructions shown as sticky notes attached to various objects or on signs held up by characters.

Developer(s)	Blendo Games
Publisher(s)	Blendo Games
Designer(s)	Brendon Chung Tynan Wales
Engine	id Tech 4
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows,OS X, Linux[1]
Release date(s)	Windows WW: July 25, 2016 OS X, Linux WW: September 2016
Genre(s)	Puzzle
Mode(s)	Single-player