By Dan Moren
December 11, 2015 11:42 AM PT
Grayout, the prequel to puzzle game Blackbar, is coming soon
Note: This story has not been updated for several years.
One of my favorite puzzle games of recent years was the clever Blackbar. I guess you might call it an “epistolary censorship thriller”1: set in a dystopian future, the all-text game involved reading letters with blacked-out words and trying to figure out what was supposed to go in the blanks. I’m not sure I’ve played anything else quite like it.
Well, designer Neven Mrgan2 has teamed up once again with programmer James Moore to release a sequel of sorts to Blackbar, called Grayout. Neven posted a tweet with a brief animated teaser about the game.
Ok folks, new game shipping VERY SOON. It's called Grayout. Take care. pic.twitter.com/rRF5PNue5r
— Neven Mrgan (@mrgan) December 11, 2015
Neven’s other games include reverse-platformer The Incident and adventure game Space Age, both created with Matt Comi.
[Dan Moren is the East Coast Bureau Chief of Six Colors. You can find him on Twitter at @dmoren or reach him by email at dan@sixcolors.com. The latest novel in his Galactic Cold War series of sci-fi space adventures, The Nova Incident, is available now.]
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