Let’s encourage Montreal indie game developer Polytron!

Fez music available for free download http://bit.ly/6WxuTW or

special limited-edition 8cm CDR at the Polyshop http://bit.ly/6gHJB4 Wooo!

Update: New teaser video:

6955 – Fez Demos EP from Polytron Corporation on Vimeo.

Independent developer Polytron (from Montreal) recently released details of their first iPhone game that’s in the works. Polytron is best known for their work on the innovative, and as yet unreleased game, Fez, a 2d/3d platformer (video). Well, no, Fez is not coming to the iPhone (as far as we know), but Polytron is working on an iPhone-specific multi-touch game called Power Pill.

At Pecha Kucha, Phil Fish presented the idea behind Power Pill which places you in control of a super medicine that is working its way through a human body. The medicine is so powerful that it can’t touch the sides of the body without causing damage. Your job is to squeeze, pull and morph the pill into different sizes and shapes in order to properly navigate the levels.

 

He was toiling away in a Montreal game studio Artificial Mind and Movement, one of many working on some movie-based game. The game he’d been working on it in his own time was up for two awards at the Independent Games Festival at GDC. That game was Fez.

The game stars 2D fez-hat-wearing Gomez on an adventure on a 3D platform world. The pixelated title looks like something you could have played as a kid, but didn’t — you poor bastard. Blame the M.C. Escher-esque level design and a 2D-3D platform perspective shift.

“I’m pretty sure Fez could have been made on a SNES without the 3D graphics,” says Fish. “The world rotation thing could have totally been faked by having 4 parallel 2D levels that you ‘rotate’. The gameplay here really doesn’t depend on the modern tech.” What it does depend on is some fancy programming from lead programmer Renaud Bédard.

Update: Here is a teaser video of the game Fez: