#And yet it moves full
#And yet it moves series

#And yet it moves series

There are also rocks aplenty rolling around ready to squash you should you rotate the world the wrong way, as well as a black abyss or two to fall into and, as the levels progress, a whole host of other interactive elements pop up that, depending on your skill, can either help or hinder your progress.Įarly on, for instance, you’ll discover a series of lizards seemingly encased in rock blocking your path. Fall too far, for instance, and you’ll smash yourself to smithereens on contact.

Though And Yet It Moves doesn’t have enemies to take down, you can still land yourself in trouble if you’re not careful. There are things to watch out for, however. Able to turn in either direction, success in each stage comes down a swiftness of touch – given that every surface is now a floor-in-waiting, you’ll find yourself doing a multitude of things at once, such as jumping skywards before turning the world in mid-air to land on what was, a few seconds earlier, the ceiling.

#And yet it moves full

As well as the ability to run and jump – holding your finger down on the screen in the direction you wish to travel handling the former, double tapping the latter – the weapon you’ll use most often is the capacity to revolve the level a full 360 degrees.ĭoing so initially takes some getting used to, with And Yet It Moves recognising a desire to spin your surroundings with a twist of your fingers, almost as if you were unlocking a safe. Rather, it’s the controls at your disposal that really set it apart from the competition and form the base of play. It might surprise you to know, however, that the cut-and-paste visuals are not actually And Yet It Moves’ unique selling point.

Yet, the actual goal of play – simply making your way to the next save point – is ridiculously simple. In practice, And Yet It Moves is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, constructing some of the most brain teasing platforming levels you’ll ever come across that have been carefully crafted to fox you from the outset. The apparent random nature of its make up (levels appearing, superficially at least, as if they’ve been stuck down without sense or logic) is, actually, something of a trick.

And Yet It Moves appears to stem from the Blue Peter world of games development, looking as if it’s been patched together out of torn up envelopes and bits of scrap paper, yet it draws you in from the word go. Developed in close collaboration Rasmus Koch Studio and are certain games that, thanks to the world that surrounds them, you want to spend more and more time in. Originally conceived for the Hyundai Commission 2017 in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. As the beliefs of the bishops and priests were set in stone, so too seems our current belief in a fixed system of commodified life. Designed with a colour scheme inspired by a selection of national banknotes, the carpet appears as a flickering bed of currency where the participants can indulge in a state of apathy. And Yet It Moves consists of a gigantic swinging steel pendulum that the audience is invited to lie under on an expansive, soft carpet. We are unable to even fathom alternatives to the current system, as if we were hypnotised into believing only in a market-driven ideology. Today the major global power – and perhaps religion – is capitalism. Threatened with torture and death by the major spiritual, political and economical force of that time, the Catholic church, Galilei was forced to retract his conclusion, but afterwards supposedly uttered the words: “And yet it moves.” Using a simple telescope as well as observing the movement of a pendulum, Galileo Galilei concluded that the Earth is rotating around the sun. During the 16th century, the long-held view that Earth was the stationery centre of the universe was challenged by Renaissance scientists.