Proteus (video game)
Proteus is a 2013 exploration and walking simulator video game designed and created by Ed Key and David Kanaga for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. In the game, the player traverses a procedurally generated environment without prescribed goals. The world’s flora and fauna emit unique musical signatures, combinations of which cause dynamic shifts in audio.
About Proteus (video game) in brief
Proteus is a 2013 exploration and walking simulator video game designed and created by Ed Key and David Kanaga for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. In the game, the player traverses a procedurally generated environment without prescribed goals. The world’s flora and fauna emit unique musical signatures, combinations of which cause dynamic shifts in audio based on the player’s surroundings. Proteus won the prize for Best Audio at the 2011 IndieCade awards, and was a finalist for the 2012 Independent Games Festival’s Nuovo Award. The game was involved in numerous discussions of video games as art, with some debating whether it could be considered a video game at all. The focus of the game is on exploration rather than interaction, as there is no narrative and the player is given no instructions on how to proceed. The player can capture a screenshot via a \”save a postcard\” feature, through which they can save and load their progress. In addition to the base gameplay elements, the PlayStation Vita version allows the player to directly affect the environment with the console’s rear touch panel and to generate islands based upon the current date and location in the real world.
When pre-orders opened in 2012, an Artifact Edition was also available containing a boxed version of the video game. Some mods have been created by the player-created community since the game’s release, allowing the player in turn to create their own mods for the game. It was released on January 30, 2013 for Windows and OS X and on April 8 of the same year for Linux. It is available for PC, Mac, iOS, Android, and PlayStation 3, as well as the PC and Mac versions of the PlayStation 3 game for the Vita handheld console and the PC version for the PS4 and Xbox One. It has been released on Xbox 360, PS3, Xbox One, and PS3 for PC and PS4 for Xbox 360 and PC, and the PS3 version for Xbox One for Mac and PC for Xbox 3 and Xbox 360 for PC. The soundtrack varies depending on thePlayer’s movements and location; it may fall silent when thePlayer is at the top of a hill and become sonically dense as they travel down it.
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