Fabric

It all started with a guy by the name of Boris Michael Soylu who entered a concept he was working on into one of those 7DFPS contests. His idea consisted of taking the space time bending mechanic that was present in the 2D plat-former called 'Faultline' by Nitrome https://youtu.be/bG_dgL1cPQU and enlarging that principle to a 3D world. The idea was a huge success and well received and from there on the project was immediately hand-balled to three level designers, Atil Kockar (Now with Chimera Entertainment), Anton Semchenko (Now with Kabuk Games) and Enes Ugur Sekerci (Now with King). As you can probably tell these three developers who made up Torreng Labs have all gone their separate ways and Torreng Labs no longer exists as a commercial entity. This is why you won't find 'Fabric' on the Steam store anymore. It’s a pity really and having now wandered the potential landscape of this premise well after the aftermath has already taken place, I can't help but feel that this product deserved a LOT more love than it actually received. Personally, I had a ball of a time strategically learning the principles of bending space time and gravity flipping with my gun. The 65 puzzles are set out generously in a manner which progressively teaches you the principles and potential that your law altering gun offers. On the negative side, there are 7 achievements I could not get to unlock at all. 5 which I prove are broken in a 41 minute 30 second walk-through I did. Accomplishing the whole game without any deaths and it was the above that made the game fascinating for me. Every play-through I did, I kept finding more and more hidden short cuts, some of them cleverly hidden I assume by the developers, others I’m curious if they even had any notion how much you could get around their placed obstacles by thinking outside the square. In fact, the potential quickness of being able to speed through levels nearly places this on a similar plateau to other parkour games like ‘Deadcore’ or ‘Qbeh-1’. Another downer for me was the implemented story. It just was not very engaging and any moral or hypothetical they were trying to get across became severely lost and upstaged by just the game mechanics alone being more endearing and fun. Personally, I thought they should have instead opted for more the comical side like ‘Portal 2’ and kept it light and entertaining. Those quibbles placed aside; I recommend installing it from your game library if you already have it. If you don’t, I’m not actually sure how you could still obtain it since Torreng Labs is no longer commercial. I guess it’s plausible, with enough interest shown, it could be made free if the developers wish. Or it could be sold and passed on to another developer or publishing company that would be keen to drive this space time bend concept further. However, Atil Kockar himself seems to have severely lost his commitment to this franchise and fabric has so far folded up on itself. This means that at this present point in time the only thing available to us is a early alpha prototype of Fabric 2 found here …. https://pingfromheaven.itch.io/fabric-2-prototype A mobile version from the same developer for google play which also contains a level editor found here…. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.torreng.prefabric And a hope that this franchise after doing a commercial gravity flip will do another one and come back. Below a sample by me… https://youtu.be/nvj5FLiZcz4 If you enjoyed reading this review, feel free to subscribe to my curator page. Thanks... http://store.steampowered.com/curator/6843548/