Fake Illusions

I'm the developers brother. I placed this review on my own intention. He did not ask me to. Illusions are a fascinating phenomenon. I've played multiple Escher-like games, but never really a game quite like this one. The game's design is simple, which I think really fits the illusions. The gray-scale makes the game playable even if you're colourblind, which is awesome. By playing you not only learn about certain illusions, but you learn to feel how the illusion is trying to bedazzle your brain. By cleverly finding an anchor point you can overcome the levels and be champion over all the illusions! Overall a great game. Original and well executed. Such a game ain't easy to make. (If this review seems a bit glorified, this is my honest opinion. I'm proud of the game(s) my brother put together. )

Авторы взяли два десятка оптических иллюзий и сделали на их основании забавную игру: нужно найти какая из иллюзий - не иллюзия а на самом деле другая. Срабатывает по-разному: какие-то иллюзии на мне почему-то не срабатывали вообще, а вот косую шахматку и флаги я решал исключительно наугад. Забавно видеть, как собственный глазомер тебя же и обманывает. Рекомендую.

Hey, I personally know the developer. Despite that I will give my honest opinion in this review. Let's start with some things that could be improved upon. Playtime: For each level you beat you earn an achievement, and I earned all achievements in 1 hour 22 minutes. There's also an infinite mode for each level, though, so if you really want to challenge yourself you can test yourself there and possibly rack up a lot more hours. Difficulty: I can envision some people might argue this game is too easy. The developer explicitly told me it was a conscious decision to not make Fake Illusions very difficult. Which I understand, as it makes the game more accessible. Which brings me to the second part of the review, namely the things Fake Illusions gets right. Accessibility: As mentioned above, the relatively low difficulty makes the game very accessible, but that's not all. The game is designed in such a way that it's always clear what you should be looking for in a given "puzzle", for lack of a better word. Creativity and ingenuity: This seems pretty self-explanatory. Using optical illusions in a game like this is very unique, and the way Auroriax pulled it off is very clever. Things also get mixed up from time to time to make things a little more challenging. Education: Aside from being a fun way to tease your mind for a bit, Fake Illusions makes you intuitively develop an understanding of a wide variety of optical illusions, along with a means to see through them. All in all a well-designed game based on a creative concept that I can definitely recommend trying out if you're interested in optical illusions.

What an unexpected little game! This brief game has the player spot what's different in a series of different types of optical illusions. Each stage starts off basic, then the optical challenge increases. A game based on optical illusions is not something I would have thought of! The game is quite short, but I'm happy to kick down the equivalent of a pint of beer for the interesting experience and novel idea for a quickie game. Some stages are easy, and make you want a time challenge. Others will make you a bit cross eyed as you figure out a mental method to quickly identify differences in a level. One point of criticism: the desire to have minimal text in the front end and options menu, while well intentioned, leads to a bit of uncertainty on what some things do without having to experiment and guess. An idea: On the challenge stage, an interesting twist could be to have the occasional screen where there are no differences (and a button to click if the user decides that's the case). Perhaps, combined with a timed mode challenge, this could be appropriate on the easy/medium difficulty illusions.

Seeing an illusion once in a while is pretty fun, but this game just takes it to the next level. You are essentially fighting your senses, trying to spot the outlier (which is not actually an illusion). But that's not always so easy. It's incredible how well some of these illusions can trick you. Especially in later levels. At first you might think you have a grasp on it, and can figure out the fakes pretty quickly. But soon enough you'll really be stumped. And I think that's where the premise of the game really pays off. You'll then have to take some time and figure out ways to not let your brain fool you. Everyone is different though and better or worse at certain illusions. So it's nice that the game offers some sliders to adjust the difficulty. There's not a whole lot surprises though once you get further, but that's not so bad. The game knows what it wants to be and does it really well. And for the price that's a pretty good deal.

Svojim spôsobom fascinujúca hra. Originálne a dobre prevedená, predvádza známe i menej známe okoklamy. Optické Ilúzie sú fascinujúci fenomén a šedá škála hry sa pre ne mimoriadne hodí. Snáď len - opatrne! Keď začnete mať divné pocity v očiach alebo v hlave, je lepšie prestať...

7/10. Spot the real fake among illusory fakes. [b]What is it:[/b] A perception game testing how hard/easy is it to trick your brain into seeing things that aren't there. Based on famous trick images, each level hides a real difference among a collection of "fake" things, e.g. an actually moving object hidden among still objects that just seem to be moving when you're not staring straight at them, an actual gray dot in a grid with "phantom" dots that only show up in the corner of your eye, a longer or shorter line among lines that just seem to have different sizes, etc. Each illusion has increasingly difficult levels, with a bonus infinite random gauntlet with extra hurdles in the way (moving spotlight, extra moving circles or lines obstructing the screen). The difficulty is adjustable, from quite obvious to barely noticeable, so even though the game isn't too long (about an hour playtime on the easiest difficulty), you can keep on cranking up the difficulty until you become a master of perception. [b]How hard is it:[/b] Adjustable, from obvious to nearly impossible. [b]How long is it:[/b] 18 levels + 2 summary levels, each with 5 sub-levels, plus infinite mode. A quick playthrough on the easiest difficulty shouldn't take more than an hour, but finishing on the hardest difficulty can take many hours, and as a perception training tool you can keep on playing forever. [b]Level design:[/b] Good, the author managed to make the classic illusions progressively more engaging. [b]Quality:[/b] Good option of controls, clean UI, I didn't encounter any bugs. The text-free settings are a bit confusing: I thought the happy/sad slider was a "rating" tool, so I thought the game was too easy after I rated it as "happy". [b]Worth the price:[/b] Yes. [b]Most positive aspect for me:[/b] Great perception training tool. [b]Most negative aspect for me:[/b] The obstacles in the last level are occluding too much of the puzzle, turning the game from "spot the difference" to "wait until the difference is not completely covered by thick bars to even have a chance to spot it".

The concept of this game is rather straightforward - work your way through various optical illusions to spot the odd one out. In my opinion, this is a really good and fun idea for a game and I'm somewhat surprised I haven't seen it before now. And, fortunately, the idea is fantastically executed in this title. Some of the illusions are shockingly hard and make for a really good challenge. It took me ~2 hours to complete all levels and I enjoyed it the entire time.

Quick and fun, would like a color blind option as some boarders in sections are red and green.

画面内に並んだ有名な錯視図形を見て、その中に一つ混ざった偽物を探すゲーム。表19ステージ+裏9ステージ。 「左右に＞＜マークが付いていると線が短く見える」とか「二重の円の外側が大きいと内側の円が小さく見える」とかの有名な図形の中に、ひとつだけ実際に「長さの違う線」や「サイズの違う円」など、錯視で見えるはずの物がそのまま描かれている図が混ざっているのでそれを見つけていきます。 ステージを進めると線が動いたり邪魔な図形が出てきたりと色々ギミックが発生するんですが、そういう邪魔な動きがあった方がわかりやすい問題と、しっかり紛れてわかりづらくなる問題とどちらもありました。 見え方の不思議に触れられて面白かったです。 難しさとかやり応えとかを楽しむものでなく、錯視の面白さを知るゲームだったと思います。 ずっと錯視を見ることになるので、視覚情報で疲れやすい人は控えた方がいいかもしれません。目がちかちかします。