AURUM
Eleven forms, from moonstone to gold.Five of them fall. Six are made.
Real glass. Real weight.
Matter falls where your finger asks, and lands like it means it. When two of a kind meet, they glide into one another and become a single form, rarer than both.
Three guests, three gifts.
Quicksilver lifts what it touches, up to the seventh form. On the eighth the bead simply rolls off. Sulphur is less patient. It throws whatever it lands on two forms higher, in one blaze. Salt runs the other way, and what it reaches goes back to essence.
Ride the heat, or bank the night.
In Endless and Daily, work warms the vessel, and the closer to the brim you dare, the faster the heat climbs. Pour off and keep what the night has made, or push on and stake it. The choice never gets easier to carry, and carrying it is the game.
The music keeps a chair empty for you.
Every union is a note that waits for the beat, so nothing you do can ever sound wrong. Six original pieces run through the game. Your hands sit in for the lead. The same six are out as an album, on Apple Music and Spotify.
Every stage you finish lights a star. Forever.
The campaign is a sky. Sixteen stars in four constellations. Under a shut door a dawn waits beneath the horizon, deepening one stage at a time.
The night has six faces.
A rite dresses everything at once: the colour of the matter, the glass it falls into, the air around it, the voice it strikes. Six of them, and each is a world of its own: The Forge, Celestial Rite, Verdant Bloom, Obsidian Rite, Nocturne and Cherry Court. A rite passes through four degrees, and every night played makes it richer. Each of the six can be worn free for one full night, once.
Eleven forms. The last one gives the game its name.
Only the first five ever fall. Every form above them is made by hand, each worth more than the one below.
The five that fall
- Moonstone1
- Pearl3
- Champagne6
- Honey10
- Amber15
The six that are made
- Marigold21
- Copper28
- Carnelian36
- Garnet45
- Radiant Gold66
- Aurum120
AURUM by Studio Kirilov is a physics puzzle for iPhone and Android, free to play. At first launch the game makes an anonymous account for the device, and the work is kept with it, not on the phone alone. It asks for no name and no password. The privacy policy says what is kept and how to end the account.