Contre Jour 2011

As you progress through the game’s worlds – 60 levels in all – your weenie blob character, Petit, changes from greyscale to luminescent, but the monochromatic world never perks up. To get Petit moving, you can nudge the ground he sits on, lifting it and lowering it to move him into place. Rarely will this be enough to get him to his destination, however. In most levels, you’ll employ tentacles, both elastic and not, that can be attached to him and detached at will.

Ratings and Reviews

At E3 2011, Chillingo announced there would 60 levels across three worlds in the full version of mokusgames.com the game when it is released in July 2011. If there is room in your heart for another three-star, one-screen platformer, Contre Jour is more than worthy of your purchase. Nothing actively opposes Petit, but gravity, spikes and hungry plants do an admirable job of standing in his way. Should you find the challenge too much, any level can be skipped freely — but you need to collect a certain number of lights (there are, of course, three in each level) to unlock the second and third worlds. Some levels have movable tentacles, which you’ll need to maneuver carefully to keep from impaling Petit on a lurking spike. And, in a pleasantly familiar touch, you can toss Petit through a portal and trust that he’ll fly through the other side, inertia intact.

Gameplay

Each level includes use of various gameplay mechanics which are introduced to the player as the game progresses. These levels are accompanied by a haunting, accordion-heavy soundtrack to enhance the experience. At E3 2011, the stage demo demonstrated a level which required the player to shift the ground in order to create slopes; and another level which required moving Petit through the air by dragging hanging tendrils onto him.

Apps for Angry Birds Lovers

Based on the French story Le Petit Prince, Contre Jour (meaning ‘against daylight’) features a contrasting black and white art style resembling Limbo and features gameplay similar to World of Goo. Named for an artistic photographic technique and inspired by the book The Little Prince, this physics-based puzzler is anything but gaming as usual. Tap and drag on the dreamlike terrain of a twilight fantasyland to roll, swing, and teleport an expressive one-eyed creature to safety. Fight gravity, overcome barriers, and evade traps on a journey full of gentle exploration and brain-teasing challenges. Accompanied by an elegant soundtrack and full of otherworldly charm, it’s an offbeat, deeply immersive experience that anyone can pick up and get lost in.

There are also elastic tentacles that can be moved around the screen by the player, for instance to have Petit travel through a narrow passage of spikes, and hot air exhausts that boost him into the air. From its lush, yet stark, black and white art style to its soothing musical soundtrack, it’s a game you will never get tired of looking at. Fortunately, it’s also an app whose gameplay will keep you hooked.

Contre Jour is a physics-based puzzle game based on guiding the blob-like character Petit through different levels. Instead of controlling the character directly, the player can only manipulate the environment to move the character and bring it to the destination. The most common way is to nudge the ground, by lifting and lowering it Petit can be taken to the right direction.

• Each of these includes 20 levels, for a grand total of 60–not nearly enough, in my humble opinion.
• There’s a noticeable whiff of Cut the Rope, a dash of Angry Birds, and just a little sprinkle of World of Goo.
• Tap and drag on the dreamlike terrain of a twilight fantasyland to roll, swing, and teleport an expressive one-eyed creature to safety.
• The one drawback of Contre Jour is that on smaller devices some of the later levels require a bit too much coordination.
• To get Petit moving, you can nudge the ground he sits on, lifting it and lowering it to move him into place.
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