The Last Tinker: City of Colors
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| Developer(s) | Mimimi Productions |
| Publisher(s) | Unity Games (PC) Loot Entertainment (PS4) Soedesco (Retail version) Daedalic Entertainment (PC)[1] |
| Director(s) | Dominik Abé |
| Producer(s) | Johannes Roth |
| Designer(s) | Martin Hamberger Mortiz Wagner |
| Programmer(s) | Dominik Abé Johannes Roth Maximilian Auer |
| Artist(s) | Bianca Dörr Cem Erdalan Lucas Reiner Florian Smolka |
| Writer(s) | Dominik Abé Martin Hamberger Dennis Huszak Johannes Roth Mortiz Wagner |
| Composer(s) | Filippo Beck Peccoz |
| Engine | Unity |
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
The Last Tinker: City of Colors is a 2014 German action-adventure-platform video game developed by Mimimi Productions. It was published by for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux on 12 May 2014.[2][3][1] A PlayStation 4 version was handled by Loot Interactive, and released digitally on the PlayStation Store on August 19, 2014, in North America and August 20, 2014, in Europe and Australia.[4] A retail version published by Dutch publisher Soedesco was released in May 2015 in Europe and in March 2016 in North America.
The player controls a young anthropomorphic monkey named Koru as he rises, using color and emotion, from his home in the slums of Colortown to stand against the "Bleakness", a force trying to wipe out all joy and life from the world.[1] An Xbox One port of the game was planned, but was cancelled due to poor sales on the PlayStation 4 version.[4]
Gameplay
[edit]The Last Tinker: City of Colors is inspired by classic platform game series like Jak and Daxter or Banjo-Kazooie while breaking the format by not having a jump button.[1] The game is described as "a vivid journey through Colortown, a world built upon creativity, emotion and collaboration".[1]
Reception
[edit]The Last Tinker: City of Colors received mixed reviews and the Deutscher Computerspielpreis 2015 for best game design. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the Windows version 75.63% based on 27 reviews and 72/100 based on 41 reviews[5][6] and the PlayStation 4 version 67.25% based on 20 reviews and 66/100 based on 19 reviews.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "The Last Tinker™: City of Colors on Steam". store.steampowered.com. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
- ^ Podolsky, Andrew (6 March 2014). "The Last Tinker: City of Colors is an artistic platformer with a handmade feel (preview)". VentureBeat. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
- ^ Sarkar, Samit (11 March 2014). "The Last Tinker: City of Colors coming to consoles and PC this summer". Polygon. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
- ^ a b Sirani, Jordan (2 October 2014). "The Last Tinker Cancelled for Xbox One". IGN. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- ^ "The Last Tinker: City of Colors for PC". GameRankings. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ "The Last Tinker: City of Colors for PC Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ "The Last Tinker: City of Colors for PlayStation 4". GameRankings. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ "The Last Tinker: City of Colors for PlayStation 4 Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
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