iGame Radio

ETA: Just got minimum system requirements. See below for details.

Hemisphere Games announced the release of Osmos for the Mac. The award-winning Indie game in which you play a mote (look it up, dudes) that grows by absorbing others around you. The physics-based gameplay requires that you eject bits of yourself to move, thus shrinking, so you have to balance your desire to grow with your need to move.

Come to think of it, that’s actually pretty parasitic and gruesome. Let me rewrite that appropriately:

In Osmos, you play a mote, a parasitic being that consumes those around you to grow to monstrous size, but to attack, you must eject your insides for the world to see! Bwahahaha!!!

Ahem.

Anyway, the game includes some wonderful soundtracks by Loscil, Gas/High Skies, Julien Neto, Biosphere, and more. Which, of course, means I have to get samples to play on the show.

System Requirements for the game:

• Mac OS X 10.4 or newer, Intel and PowerPC
• Processor: 1.0 GHz
• Memory: 512 MB RAM

You can download a demo for the Mac directly from the Osmos homepage, or purchase the game for a mere $10. And considering that the game includes 47 levels, randomly generated content (for potentially unlimited play), bonus content to unlock, and buying the game gets you both the PC and Mac versions, as well as the Linux version when it comes out (so you can play it on any computer), that’s a load of awesome for just $10.