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Finally, a game for those of us who love painting the town red (or green, or blue) but don't want to have to worry about scampering away from pesky law enforcement officials.
Tag: The Power of Paint is a first person platformer, with puzzles centered around spraying your surroundings with paint to navigate around obstacles. Players are armed with a paint gun, and a total of three colors – red, blue, and green.
Spray a surface or object with green paint, and you'll bounce right off of it, while anything sprayed with red paint will become incredibly slick, granting you a speed boost as you run across. Splatter surfaces with blue paint and they'll become sticky, allowing you to defy gravity and walk across otherwise unreachable surfaces.
Tag provides quite a few devious puzzles, including the occasional wall jump onto moving platforms, and features a rather generous checkpoint system which will let you restart if you've missed a particularly tricky jump.
While the game is rather short, I haven't managed to finish it yet – I got nauseous during last level, embarrassingly enough, so if you're especially susceptible to vertigo I'd recommend just checking out the – video walkthrough to see what you're missing out on.
Tag was developed by Tag Team, a group of students from the DigiPen Institute of Technology, and was among the Student Showcase finalists in this year's Independent Games Festival. It's Windows only, and requires installation after a free 55MB download. Once you've beaten the game, check out the Tag FAQ for instructions on accessing the unofficial level editor.
Tag: The Power of Paint [Tag Team]
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