Gateways
Gateways is a 2D platform game set in the lab of an inventor called Ed following an outbreak of a number of his more "creative" experiments. Can you help him escape the lab? Alongside the traditional platform…
Gateways is an indie developed by Smudged Cat Games, released 13 September 2012 on Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Gateways is
Gateways is an indie game developed by Smudged Cat Games and released in 2012. It is available on Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on FNA.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Gateways is a 2D platform game set in the lab of an inventor called Ed following an outbreak of a number of his more "creative" experiments. Can you help him escape the lab? Alongside the traditional platform elements such as jumping on enemies heads, spikes and moving platforms are the gateway guns. The gateway guns allow you to place two gateways on the walls, floors and ceilings of the lab so that when you pass through one you emerge out of the other. As progress is made through the game different types of gateway gun are introduced with different effects. After the basic gun, you acquire a gun that creates two gateways of different sizes, passing through one way shrinks Ed to half his…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 18 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Gateways holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 5,099 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual Core 2.0 GHz, 256 MB RAM and 128MB video RAM and at least Shader Model 3.0. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Gateways launched on 13 September 2012, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Borderlands 2 and FTL: Faster Than Light. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Borderlands 2, FTL: Faster Than Light.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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