iGame Radio

Uncanny Games has released their platform puzzler OIO for Mac and Windows. OIO follows the travails of a little wooden character who can grow wooden beams to travel through his world.

OIO wakes up one day to find all of his friends petrified, and he alone must discover what happened. He finds that he can travel through his world and get through the puzzles that confound him by throwing fertile seeds on the ground to grow wooden beams. Combining up to three wooden beams allows him to climb cliffs, jump higher, solve puzzles and control the fire propagation.

There are 12 scrolling levels within four different environments, including roots and natural wood, mines, and a realm of metallic machinery. The graphics are quite lovely and from the trailer the shadowing is handled quite well. Uncanny Games created the art of OIO in a hand-made “art brut” organic style, using wood alongside other natural forms and materials to build detailed environments with depth and scale.

You can download the demo of the game, or purchase it for $9.99.