VVVVVV
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VVVVVV is a 2010 puzzle-platform game created by Terry Cavanagh. In the game, the player controls Captain Viridian, who must rescue their spacecrew after a teleporter malfunction caused them to be separated in Dimension VVVVVV. The gameplay is characterized by the inability of the player to jump, instead opting on controlling the direction of gravity, causing the player to fall upwards or downwards. The game consists of more than 400 individual rooms, and also supports the creation of user-created levels.
Game data
Metacritic 81- Released
- 2010-01-09
- User rating
- 3.77 / 5
- Genres
- Adventure, Action, Puzzle, Casual, Arcade, Indie, Platformer
- Platforms
- PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Nintendo 3DS, macOS, Linux, PS Vita
- ESRB
- Everyone
via RAWG
Game details · IGDB
There's something terribly wrong in an alternate dimension! Help Captain Viridian flip to find five crew members, 20 hard-to-reach Trinkets and save a dimension on the brink of destruction. It's a space opera in the most unique scale with a style that only VVVVVV can bring to you. Instead of jumping, control the direction of gravity by inverting your gravity and allowing Captain Viridian to flip between the floors and ceilings of the environment. For adventurers who save the dimension, there's still hours and hours of new gameplay with all-new Player Levels. Test your mettle and see if you…
- Released
- 2010
- Genres
- Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4, Ouya, Linux, Nintendo 3DS, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Engine
- C++
- Developer
- Distractionware, Terry Cavanagh
- Publisher
- Nicalis, Inc., Distractionware, Terry Cavanagh
Key facts
- Album.name
- PPPPPP
- Album.type
- Soundtrack
- Video game.state
- expanded
- Video game.title
- VVVVVV
- Video game.image
- VVVVVV logo.svg
- Video game.developer
- Terry Cavanagh
- Video game.platforms
- Windows, Nintendo Switch, OS X, Linux, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4, iOS, Android, Ouya
- Video game.genre
- Puzzle-platform
- Video game.modes
- Single-player
- Video game.composer
- Magnus Pålsson
- Video game.engine
- Adobe Flash (original)C++ (2011 port)
- Album.artist
- SoulEye
- Album.released
- January 10, 2010
- Album.genre
- video game musicdanceelectronic
- Album.next_title
- Adventure
- Album.next_year
- 2012
- Album.chronology
- SoulEye
- Album.year
- 2010
via Wikipedia infobox
Source code
This is the source code to VVVVVV, the 2010 indie game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Magnus Pålsson. You can read the announcement of the source code release on Terry's blog! VVVVVV is still commercially available at thelettervsixtim.es if you'd like to support it, but you are completely free to compile the game for your own personal use. If you're interested in distributing a compiled version of the game, see LICENSE.md for more information. Discussion about VVVVVV updates mainly happens on the "unofficial" VVVVVV discord, in the vvvvvv-code channel. Credits Created by Terry Cavanagh Room Names by Bennett Foddy Music by Magnus Pålsson Metal Soundtrack by FamilyJules 2.0 Update (C++ Port) by Simon Roth 2.2 Update (SDL2/PhysicsFS/Steamworks port) by Ethan Lee Additional coding by Misa Kai Beta Testing by Sam Kaplan and Pauli Kohberger Ending Picture by Pauli Kohberger Localisations by our localisation teams With additional contributions by many others here on github <3
Excerpt from the source-code README · 1,646 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- thelettervsixtim.es
- Image
- VVVVVV - The Tomb of Mad Carew.png
Show 11 more facts
- Commons category
- VVVVVV
- publication date
- 2011-07-26
- source code repository URL
- github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV
- minimum number of players
- 1
- maximum number of players
- 2
- software version identifier
- 2.4.3
- review score
- 75%
- itch.io URL
- terrycavanagh.itch.io/vvvvvv
- price
- 4.99
- official blog URL
- distractionware.com/blog/category/vvvvvv
- data size
- 87
Sources (15)
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Article
9 sectionsContents
- Gameplay
- Plot
- Development
- Release
- Soundtrack
- Reception
- Notes
- References
- External links
VVVVVV is a 2010 puzzle-platform game created by Terry Cavanagh. In the game, the player controls Captain Viridian, who must rescue their spacecrew after a teleporter malfunction caused them to be separated in Dimension VVVVVV. The gameplay is characterized by the inability of the player to jump, instead opting on controlling the direction of gravity, causing the player to fall upwards or downwards. The game consists of more than 400 individual rooms, and also supports the creation of user-created levels.
The game was built in Adobe Flash and released on January 11, 2010, for Microsoft Windows and OS X. The game was ported to C++ by Simon Roth in 2011, and released as part of the Humble Indie Bundle #3. The port to C++ allowed the porting of the game to other platforms such as Linux, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo Switch. Unofficial ports of the game have been made for the Pandora and Commodore 64.