Square Enix and Airtight Games have revealed Quantum Conundrum, a new first-person puzzler and the next game from Kim Swift, the co-creator of Portal, who left Valve to join Airtight last year.
The game puts players in the shoes of a kid searching for his uncle, Professor Fitz Quadrangle, a mad scientist, who’s gone missing after an explosion in his mansion-turned-laboratory. Players will use an interdimensional shift glove that allows them to change dimensions.
One dimension shown to GameSpot, who have the exclusive reveal, is the fluffy dimension. This makes everything in the room the weight of a stuffed animal. If the player needs to pick an object that would normally be too heavy in the normal dimension, they can switch to fluffy, move the object to where they need it to be, and then switch back, where it will then have all of its normal dimension properties once again.
It’s out in early 2012 for PlayStation Network, Xbox LIVE Arcade, and Steam. A panel for Quantum Conundrum will be held on Saturday at PAX this weekend. More details on that here. Watch a gameplay demo and trailer below.