Description:Stacking is a adventure/puzzle video game developed by Double Fine Productions and published by THQ; like Double Fine's previous Costume Quest, it is a smaller title created during the development period of Brutal Legend, and is aimed for release on the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store in the second quarter of 2011. The gamStacking is a adventure/puzzle video game developed by Double Fine Productions and published by THQ; like Double Fine's previous Costume Quest, it is a smaller title created during the development period of Brutal Legend, and is aimed for release on the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store in the second quarter of 2011. The game's development is being led by Double Fine's art director, Lee Petty.
The game is based on the Russian stacking matryoshka dolls; the game's setting is based on a world populated by these animated dolls in the 1930s. The player controls the smallest doll, Charlie Blackmore, who is attempting to reunite his family that is being forced to work for an evil industrialist. Charlie is able to jump inside larger dolls and control them, as long as the larger doll is facing away from Charlie. If the player already controls a stack of dolls, that stack can jump into a larger doll as well. The player can also unstack the dolls at any time. Each doll, outside of Charlie, has special abilities—such as the ability to unlock doors, float to higher locations, or lure other dolls around—that are only active if they are the outermost doll. Thus, the player must stack and unstack the set of dolls possessed by Charlie to solve puzzles throughout the game. Some puzzles are open-ended, giving the player several options to complete each puzzle.... (more)(less)
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