I’ve been playing this game called Tranquility on and off for the past 2 years or so. Lately, it’s turned into a different way to relax, hence the title! Here’s the short story: you’re essentially floating in a 3D space, and you maneuver around different strings and patterns made up of individual shapes flying around, and you have to find this “spinner”. You can bounce on the shapes, or float up through them, to get you where you think you wanna go. When you find, and therefore collide with, this spinner, things change in the environment, and you have to look for another spinner. You have to find seven spinners in order to complete a room, three rooms to complete a level, and seven levels to complete a realm, of which there are at least 20 or so. Oh yeah, and relaxing ambient computer-generated music is piped in to the player’s computer to help in relaxation (it puts my wife to sleep… awwwwww!). Here’s a screenshot:
(Click on the picture for full size. Warning: the image is BIG!)
(The game actually looks much better than this picture; Capturing was slower than the game!)
Go to TQworld.com to learn more about it. It IS available for both Windows (XP) and Macintosh (OS 9, and all versions of X). Trying out the software is free and they offer a free limited-capability membership, but a full membership costs $24. I actually paid a while back, and I haven’t regretted it yet. Hey, my GameCube games cost more than that and, while being fun, aren’t as original or challenging as this! It looks simple on the surface, but once you go deeper in the game… let’s just say it really makes you work on your observation skills!
