Flow

TGS 06: Flow Hands-On

TOKYO--One of the previously-unannounced games showing here at Tokyo Game Show 2006 is a brief demo called Flow, from Sony's Santa Monica studio. Less of a game and more of a tech demo at this point, Flow puts you in control of a swimming, snake-like creature that's made up of balls and lines. The visual style is somewhat similar to Nintendo's DS music-maker, Electroplankton. Considering that Flow is one of the few PS3 games at the show that was being shown off with headphones, it seems reasonable that sound will play a role in how the game works.

In the demo being shown, you can swim around a mostly-blue screen and eat tiny creatures, which fill in the circles on your creature. There are also other spots that warp you between different, but mostly-identical areas to eat more creatures. All the while, soothing ambient audio is played. A little hard to wrap our minds around at the moment, but it's interesting nonetheless. Look for more on Flow as soon as we can put our heads together and figure out what the heck is going on.