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Garden of Coloured Lights

Garden of Coloured Lights is an old school 2D vertical shoot-em-up with some innovative elements. Innovative graphics, soundtrack and game concept. The game itself is very challenging and as you progress, you…

13 October 2007

Garden of Coloured Lights is an arcade developed by Linley Henzell, released 13 October 2007 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Garden of Coloured Lights is

Garden of Coloured Lights is an arcade game developed by Linley Henzell and released in 2007. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Allegro.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Garden of Coloured Lights is an old school 2D vertical shoot-em-up with some innovative elements. Innovative graphics, soundtrack and game concept. The game itself is very challenging and as you progress, you will understand that you are dealing with a true piece of art... It is free, open source software. It is released under GNU GPL license v3 which means that it is not only free of charge, but you may also download the source code and play with it.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Garden of Coloured Lights launched on 13 October 2007, within three weeks of Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Halo 3 and The Witcher.

Released around the same time: Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Halo 3, The Witcher.

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When did Garden of Coloured Lights come out?
Garden of Coloured Lights was released on 13 October 2007 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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