The MastermindCrime Tycoon | Submitted by costik on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 17:04. |
In The Mastermind, you play a mobster building an empire of thieves, drug sales, and legitimate business for laundering your ill-gotten gains, while staving off (or crushing) competing crime bosses.
An excellent concept, and it's perhaps surprising it hasn't been done before.
This past Game Developers Conference, Synaesthete took home the Independent Games Festival's award for Best Student Game.
Synaesthesia, for which the game is most likely named, is a rare condition in which different sensations run together. Basically, a person with synaesthesia may be able see a word in colors or be able to taste a sound. Mind blowing, isn't it? True to its name, Synaesthete's visuals achieve an almost blurring interpretation of the synaesthetic process in its unique combination of both audio and visual stimulus. The game's abstract quality perhaps surpasses that of Rez, the acclaimed trance rail shooter that Synaesthete so fondly reminds me of.
