New update (v1.15)
A new update for Gateways has just gone live which updates the majority of the graphics in the game.
A new update for Gateways has just gone live which updates the majority of the graphics in the game.
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Gateways
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- Sep 13, 2012
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New update (v1.15)
A new update for Gateways has just gone live which updates the majority of the graphics in the game.
A new update for Gateways has just gone live which updates the majority of the graphics in the game.Original post - Developer post
Groupees Holiday Helpings bundle
Gateways is part of the Groupees Holiday Helpings bundle! 25% of sales go to the World Food Program. Get great games for a fantastic price and help feed the world!
Gateways is part of the Groupees Holiday Helpings bundle! 25% of sales go to the World Food Program. Get great games for a fantastic price and help feed the world! http://groupees.com/hhOriginal post - Developer post
Groupees Holiday Helpings bundle
Gateways is part of the Groupees Holiday Helpings bundle! 25% of sales go to the World Food Program. Get great games for a fantastic price and help feed the world!
Gateways is part of the Groupees Holiday Helpings bundle! 25% of sales go to the World Food Program. Get great games for a fantastic price and help feed the world! http://groupees.com/hhOriginal post - Developer post
Gateways merchandise now available
Gateways merchandise is now available to buy including t-shirts, hats, bags and cups.
Gateways merchandise is now available to buy including t-shirts, hats, bags and cups. http://www.cafepress.com/smudgedcatOriginal post - Developer post
Gateways merchandise now available
Gateways merchandise is now available to buy including t-shirts, hats, bags and cups.
Gateways merchandise is now available to buy including t-shirts, hats, bags and cups. http://www.cafepress.com/smudgedcatOriginal post - Developer post
Steam Workshop support now available
The Gateways Editor is now available on Steam, with support for Steam Workshop. Create new levels and share them with the world! We've even added a couple of new achievements for the game related to the workshop. Any levels you subscribe to through the Steam Workshop will automat
The Gateways Editor is now available on Steam, with support for Steam Workshop. Create new levels and share them with the world! We've even added a couple of new achievements for the game related to the workshop. Any levels you subscribe to through the Steam Workshop will automatically appear in the game in the 'Load Level' menu. As a special treat we've released a new level ourselves called 'Back To The Lab' If you own Gateways then you should find the Gateways Editor in the 'Tools' section of your Steam library. Publish your level within the editor to release it on the Steam Workshop and let everyone play your creation.Original post - Developer post
Steam Workshop support now available
The Gateways Editor is now available on Steam, with support for Steam Workshop. Create new levels and share them with the world! We've even added a couple of new achievements for the game related to the workshop. Any levels you subscribe to through the Steam Workshop will automat
The Gateways Editor is now available on Steam, with support for Steam Workshop. Create new levels and share them with the world! We've even added a couple of new achievements for the game related to the workshop. Any levels you subscribe to through the Steam Workshop will automatically appear in the game in the 'Load Level' menu. As a special treat we've released a new level ourselves called 'Back To The Lab' If you own Gateways then you should find the Gateways Editor in the 'Tools' section of your Steam library. Publish your level within the editor to release it on the Steam Workshop and let everyone play your creation.Original post - Product Release
Daily Deal - Gateways, 66% Off
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Now Available - Gateways, 20% off!
Gateways is now available on Steam and is 20% off until September 20th at 10AM Pacific Time! From the creative mind behind The Adventures of Shuggy comes an exciting new retro-styled 2D platformer and a winner of Dream Build Play 2012. Grab the gateway guns and explore a huge lab
Gateways is now available on Steam and is 20% off until September 20th at 10AM Pacific Time!
From the creative mind behind The Adventures of Shuggy comes an exciting new retro-styled 2D platformer and a winner of Dream Build Play 2012.
Grab the gateway guns and explore a huge lab filled with mysterious puzzles in this classic platforming adventure. Use gateway technology to leap from one place to another, change size to explore small passages or defeat large enemies, walk on walls and ceilings to reach new areas and even travel in time to work together with past echoes of yourself.
Move seamlessly between different areas of the vast labyrinthian map with no waiting for loading screens as you explore and discover new power ups. Use each of your new abilities to progress further, unlock shortcuts and find even more power ups. Can you escape?
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Gateways review
They might not be lookers, but at least you can’t accuse Dave Johnston’s catalogue of 2D platformers of style over substance. That’d be good news for Johnston’s sales figures, if only the substance in question wasn’t likely to leave massmarket focus groups frothing on the floor w
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They might not be lookers, but at least you can’t accuse Dave Johnston’s catalogue of 2D platformers of style over substance. That’d be good news for Johnston’s sales figures, if only the substance in question wasn’t likely to leave massmarket focus groups frothing on the floor with their eyes rolling back into their rapidly melting brainpans.
Ruthlessly clever and pedantically demanding in its platforming trials, Gateways takes Portal’s central conceit of player-placed interspatial pathways and twists it into a series of challenges more elaborate (and often cruel) than anything Valve’s games have touched. Despite the limitations of 2D, it is perhaps more structurally ambitious too, rejecting the steady linear progression of test chambers for exploration of a sprawling complex, its distant reaches made accessible only through the slow accrual of extra powers.
Oddly, these extensions to your quantum tunnelling device feel a more cohesive fit with Portal’s world than the propulsion gels ever did: later toys let you enter one space-hole and emerge from its smaller sibling suitably resized, or with the environment’s gravity realigned. But most fiendish of all are the portals that allow you to play with time.
Fire your first portal and you create a timeline, which you can then invade as a duplicate self, leaping through your exit portal to enter once more with the clock reset. Touching a clone creates a paradox that resets the puzzle, and so the skill is not just in duplicating yourself five times, but in plotting a route that allows your several selves to weave around each other unharmed.
This is often an absolute bastard to do and, frankly, beyond my meagre intellect. Luckily, Gateways is full of collectible orbs that can be spent to cheat your way past frustrating problems. A small sum of orbs will clue you into whether a puzzle is even possible with your current equipment, and a further payment plays through a prerecorded solution to the puzzle, leaving you safely on its other side. This is both expensive, sometimes humiliating and, I found, depressingly necessary.
Even if you are an imperturbable polymath with a penchant for precise platforming, you may find some of the to-ing and fro-ing rather a chore. Although solving puzzles mostly streamlines your route back through them, it doesn’t make the journey any more interesting, and the environments are entirely charmless. Some annoying bottlenecks force you to solve the same fiddly problem with every pass, and not every challenge is uniquely interesting.
The platforming itself, meanwhile, doesn’t feel deftly defined. However, forgive all this and you’ll find a game of formidable ideas made doubly so in their twitchsome execution. Fugly and frustrating? Guilty as charged. But Gateways is a game of rare and rarely compromised ingenuity, and that alone makes its challenge worth accepting