Shapesetter: press kit

Factsheet

Developer	TBD (based in the Netherlands)
Release date	TBD
Platforms	Windows (Steam)
Price	TBD
Website	https://shapesetter.com/
Steam	https://store.steampowered.com/app/3840770/
Discord	https://discord.gg/rtfAKg9mY8
Press contact	TBD

Description

Shapesetter is a puzzle game about programming a machine. Each level hands you raw shapes at an input and asks for finished products at an output: a red quarter-circle, a striped square, a welded Mondriaan. You place arms on the board, give each one a single tool, and write it a tape of instructions. Press run and the machine loops, shape after shape, until the quota is filled.

Nothing happens out of sight. Every stroke of paint, every cut and every weld is a move you can watch an arm make, on a page of cream paper and flat printer's ink. Shapes are exact geometry, arcs, sectors and straight edges, sharp at any zoom.

A working machine is only the start. Every solution is measured in cycles and area, and the best ones are small, quick and strange.

Features

Five tools, one per arm: grab, paint, cut, weld and extrude.
Every move is visible. No black boxes, no shapes that change out of sight.
Exact geometry: arcs, sectors and straight edges, crisp at any size.
Optimize each solution for cycles and area.
Levels after Mondriaan, Kandinsky and the traditional quilt.
Play with keyboard and mouse or a controller.

Videos

Announcement trailer, 60 seconds: https://youtu.be/fB5mOyFdRWY. The 4K file (3840x2160, 60 fps, H.264) is in Trailer/ of the press kit download.

Images

Everything is in the press kit download, made from the game itself:

Screenshots: five, 3840x2160, the game as it is played.
Key art: 3840x2160, with the logo and without it, for you to crop and title.
Logos: the logo for light and for dark backgrounds (PNG and SVG), the mark alone (SVG), and a square icon (PNG, 1024x1024).
GIFs: four machines at work, 1280x720, four seconds each.

History

TBD: how the game came to be, in a paragraph or two.

Credits

TBD: the people.

Music: the trailer's score is original, played with the GeneralUser GS SoundFont by S. Christian Collins.
Type: TeX Gyre Heros, under the GUST Font License.
The works: the trailer's, the key art's and the levels' compositions are after Piet Mondriaan's compositions in red, yellow and blue, the traditional Drunkard's Path quilt block, Wassily Kandinsky's Several Circles and Theo van Doesburg's Counter-Composition V (1924).

Contact

TBD: press email, business email, socials.