Serving more as a proof of concept at this time than anything else, Glitchspace proves to be a uniquely intriguing combination of elements. Puzzle games are far from rare in this day and age, fewer still which feature the protagonist carrying a gun-like item in a stark white environment thanks to Portal, but then you start to see just what makes it stand out so much. Combining together first person platforming with mathematical equations and logic tasks, it sounds on the surface like a fairly generic release. Then you get into exactly how it handles these elements. Rather than a single game, the entirety of Glitchspace plays out as if it were two separate titles, one hidden inside the other, and occasionally intersecting at specific points.
Whistler writes, "It was a rather surprisingly pleasant experience when I began to warm up to software development and even more so when I could understand the lines of seemingly gibberish java. Of course there are always those times when you’ll just sit there dumbfounded as to what single piece of code is stopping everything from working but fixing them would always be invigorating. Glitchspace developed by Dundee-based studio Space Budgie delivers a similar experience filtered through the medium of gaming (minus the issue of mistyping an If statement for the fifth billionth time)."
Glitchspace is an incredibly unique puzzle-platformer akin to games like Portal with a style straight out of Tron.
MonsterVine: "Glitchspace is an ambitious game that is ready to set your lateral thinking skills to the test, but what exactly does it mean to reprogram the world and more importantly, is it any fun?"
