Year Walk and Device 6 dev reveals cancelled 3DS game Rollovski

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Simogo - developer of Year Walk, Device 6, The Sailor's Dream, and Beat Sneak Bandit - has revealed a cancelled game prototype from its archive.
Originally in development for 3DS, Rollovski was an abstract arcade game about a limbless, spherical sleuth searching for clues in an abandoned "Round Room Hotel" by toggling between planes in a series of interconnected circular rooms. Think of it like several slices of swiss cheese piled atop on another with your character rolling around the negative space before leaping between layers.
"We imagined a game where circle pad being directly connected to a flat surface displayed on the 3D screen, so that they would 'physically' move around, 1:1 to your thumb movements," said Simogo's Simon Flesser on the developer's blog. "We came up with the idea of having several surfaces layered in 3D, and having a ball rolling between them. The ball eventually became a round little detective and so Rollovski was born!"
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