Created by Etter Studio using Unity 3D, Drei is a game about logic, skill and collaboration for the iPad. The mission is simple but things tend get in the way… explosives, thunderstorms, gravity and as always sometimes incompetent colleagues. Although available as a demo in the browser, the game was engineered and optimised for Apple’s tablet, taking advantage of the touch controls, the pretty display, and the possibility to use the screen vertically.
The concept for Drei was born in London back in 2006 while working on an idea how to make a North American telecom giant become cool. These things never really work out and their advertising agency disliked their idea of a multiplayer stacking game. Nonetheless the team kept this idea and four years later, in 2010, there was the sense that this idea now could be turned into reality without a huge pile of money, given the advancement of technology. The team hired the talented Swiss game designer Mario von Rickenbach and produced Drei collaboratively over the following three years.
The game includes 48 levels, comes in 18 different languages, beautifully animated characters, real-time physics and 3D rendering and live instruments as you play. Each character has its very own instrument. And as the characters work together they form Drei’s unique universal orchestra, creating their very own musical landscape, inspired by archaic instruments and ancient melodies.
To play the full version on your iPad you will need an iPad 2 or later. To play the free trial version on a Mac you will need OS X 10.2.8 or newer. On PC it requires Windows 2000/XP/Vista, or newer. You can play it with a newer version of Chrome, Firefox or Safari, with an installed Unity3D plugin.
Project Page | AppStore ($2.99) | Etter Studio
Early prototype of Drei from 2011
Prototype from 2013
Shader Experiment for Drei
