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Floating Point

Floating Point is a free, peaceful game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. In the air, you're fighting gravity. When you splash down beneath the water…

6 June 2014

Floating Point is an indie developed by Suspicious Developments, released 6 June 2014 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Floating Point is

Floating Point is an indie game developed by Suspicious Developments and released in 2014. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Floating Point is a free, peaceful game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. In the air, you're fighting gravity. When you splash down beneath the water, you're fighting your own buoyancy to swing yourself further into the depths. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything. As you pick up momentum, you start to glow, the bars you're collecting rise up, the music kicks in, and your trajectory burns a bright red line in the air, drawing huge, beautiful mathematical curves of your arcing flight. Also the name is a pun, so…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Floating Point launched on 6 June 2014, within three weeks of Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order and Shovel Knight.

Released around the same time: Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Shovel Knight.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Floating Point come out?
Floating Point was released on 6 June 2014 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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