Dear Motes, We're running a video contest, along with Andrew Vanden Heuvel (an online physics & astronomy teacher with the Michigan Virtual School), calling for students and gamers alike to create videos demonstrating physics principles via Osmos. First prize is a $500 Amazon gift certificate, and there will be a few runner-up prizes as well. We're pretty excited about helping to encourage education via gaming, and hope you'll participate! Contest details here: http://physicsofosmos.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/the-physics-of-osmos-contest/ More info on "the story" behind the contest here: http://www.hemispheregames.com/2011/11/18/physics-of-osmos-video-contest/ Cheers and good luck to all! :) - Eddy and the Hemisphere Team @HemisphereGames

Dear Motes, We're running a video contest, along with Andrew Vanden Heuvel (an online physics & astronomy teacher with the Michigan Virtual School), calling for students and gamers alike to create videos demonstrating physics principles via Osmos. First prize is a $500 Amazon gift certificate, and there will be a few runner-up prizes as well. We're pretty excited about helping to encourage education via gaming, and hope you'll participate! Contest details here: http://physicsofosmos.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/the-physics-of-osmos-contest/ More info on "the story" behind the contest here: http://www.hemispheregames.com/2011/11/18/physics-of-osmos-video-contest/ Cheers and good luck to all! :) - Eddy and the Hemisphere Team @HemisphereGames

Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack.

Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax - good things come to those who wait.

Key features:

• Independent Games Festival finalist in three categories: Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Excellence in Design and Technical Excellence
• Progress from serenely ambient levels into varied and more challenging worlds. (47 levels, plus bonus content)
• Confront attractors, repulsors and intelligent motes with similar abilities and goals as you
• Selected as one of the 2009 PAX 10
• Procedural content: play random versions of any level
• Sublime electronic soundtrack by Loscil, Gas/High Skies, Julien Neto, Biosphere, and more
• Dynamic time-warping: slow down the flow of time to outmaneuver agile opponents; speed it up to raise the challenge

• OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. fully updated
• Processor: 1 GHz or fasterMemory: 512 Mb or more
• Memory: 512 Mb or more
• Graphics: Hardware accelerated OpenGL support. Minimum resolution 800x600Hard Drive: 40 Mb free space