{"id":110300,"date":"2016-11-09T15:25:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T13:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=110300"},"modified":"2016-11-09T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T13:25:59","slug":"south-african-puzzle-game-echoplex-gets-greenlit-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/110300-south-african-puzzle-game-echoplex-gets-greenlit-on-steam","title":{"rendered":"South African puzzle game Echoplex gets Greenlit on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African psychological puzzle game Echoplex has been Greenlit on Steam, only 20 days after being launched on the community-curated Greenlight platform.<\/p>\n<p>Echoplex is a unique puzzle game which features simple, striking graphics and unique gameplay mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>The game is developed by three local game designers and was created by filmmaker and creative director<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tyron.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Tyron Janse van Vuuren<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The developer&#8217;s description of the game outlines a frantic race against your own shadow:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the Echoplex, you\u2019re followed by an echo of yourself who repeats everything you do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Activate a switch to unlock a door, and your Echo will activate the same switch a few seconds later, locking the door again. Your Echo is always getting closer \u2013 and if it catches up to you, the game is over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PC gamers can download a demo of the game from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/echoplexgame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">official website<\/a><\/strong> and head to the Echoplex Greenlight<a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=783971385\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> Steam page<\/strong><\/a> to learn more about the game.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4TYmRODYM6c\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to 5 overlooked games to watch out for this month\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/110284-5-overlooked-games-to-watch-out-for-this-month.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 overlooked games to watch out for this month<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mind-bending psychological puzzle game Echoplex has been Greenlit on Steam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":110302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,1826,15397,6210],"class_list":["post-110300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-game","tag-pc","tag-south-african"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}