Full Pipe is a computer game

Computer and video games

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 developed by Russia

Russia

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n PIPE studio. It features script and animation by celebrated Russian cartoonist, Ivan Maximov

Ivan Maximov

-Biography:Ivan Maximov was born on 19 November 1958 in Moscow. He studied photography at the Biophysical Institute in Moscow till 1976. From 1976 - 1982 Maximov studied at the Physical-Technical Institute in Moscow. He worked as an illustrator for various magazines and from 1982 to 1986 he was an...

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Release history

Full Pipe (Total Flush) was released in November of 2003 for Russia, CIS

Commonwealth of Independent States

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, and Baltic states as part of the 1С: Game collection , and it received its first solo release the following month in Lithuania under the title Pilnas Vamzdis. After being discovered by Tom Hall

Tom Hall

Tom A. Hall is a game designer born in Wisconsin. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he received a B.S. in Computer Science. In 1987, he worked at Softdisk Inc., where he was both a programmer and the editor of Softdisk, a software bundle delivered monthly...

 and John Romero

John Romero

Alfonso John Romero is a game designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry. He is best known as a co-founder of id Software and was a designer for many of their games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Dangerous Dave, Doom and Quake...

 at the Russian Game Developer's Conference

Russian Game Developer's Conference

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 (KRI-2004), distribution rights were discussed, and a localized version of the game was released (via download only) over Steam in 2006. According to staff from the 1C display at KRI-2004, the game created such a favorable impression upon Mr. Hall and Mr. Romero that the pair had to be removed from the demonstration by force. The game was released in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland by distributor, Daedalic Entertainment, in July 2010.

Gameplay

The game revolves around navigating a main character named Dude from the third-person perspective about a secret landscape under his bed in search of a lost slipper. The game is in 2D and consists of a number of puzzles centered on using items collected and interacting with the 45 other NPCs. There is no dialogue in the game and the difficulty often derives from trying to determine why a character behaves in the way it does. Solutions to the puzzles are often illogical, in keeping with the atmosphere of the game which has been described as psychedelic.

External links

• Official website
• Full Pipe on Steam
• Full Pipe Demo on Steam