I’m surprised how much attention our game has gotten around the world. We’ve had some reviews in Japan, appearance on the charts in Holland and the Netherlands, I think, and now a glowing review from Sweden.

Below is a Google translation of the review from Gamezine.se:

Mondrian game to the iPhone could easily be dismissed as a gimmick at first glance. Just listen to the presentation: The long-deceased painter Piet Mondrian haunt the world as a ghost, doomed to be in limbo until it restores his unfinished work which he could travel on to “the great art gallery in the sky”.

Idiotic? Sure, but also quite fun. And if you scratch a bit on the surface you find the humor also a rewarding, deeply and really, really difficult puzzle game.

The challenges, therefore, based on Mondrian’s paintings characteristic of white and colored rectangles, and the idea is that you should move the rectangles to their intended locations on the canvas. Moving geometric shapes into a given position through a limited number of steps may sound more like a IQ test. But the difference between the game and tests is that instead of being circumspect about their IQ are offended by the Dutch artist’s ghost. Every time you fail, Mondrian namely to explain to you that you are not good for, preferably with some Dutch profaniteter involved in fact sarcastic. And fail, you will surely do, over and over again.

My own IQ is sufficient only halfway into the third collection challenges, that is to say 15 tracks. Then it takes an end. If it means I have an appalling low IQ, or that the game is extremely challenging, I leave unsaid.

A little consolation, I find, at least in the quite brilliant trailer below, where the game creators themselves hinta on the game’s absurd difficulty:

So, after many long hours of playing time with Mondrian, I am not even close to being finished. I think it’s time to give up now. The sarcastic ghost wins. But I’ve had fucking fun on the way to my defeat.

You might do better? SEK 22 it cost to find out about it.

Footnote: When I research (read: slösurfade) on Mondrian to see if his insufferable personality in the game is based on the real artist, I found this great quote from one of his old friends:

“He [Mondrian] was just and honest and Dutch and stern, friendly to those who were people of progress, harsh to those who were not, surrealist, fascists, reactionaries, people who tolerated green, purple, orange or any impure.”

I love that line: Idiotic? Sure, but also quite fun.
I think that’s what they voted me in my high school yearbook.