Indie Fund Backs Musical Exploration Game ‘FRACT OSC’

The fine folks behind the Indie Fund have announced they’ve thrown their collective weight behind Phosfield Systems and its upcoming award-winning title, FRACT OSC.

The fine folks behind the Indie Fund have announced they’ve thrown their collective weight behind Phosfield Systems and its upcoming award-winning title, FRACT OSC. The game’s history dates back to 2011, when an early PC build took home the IGF award for Best Student Game. It also picked up an IGF Honourable Mention for Excellence in Audio this year.

Dubbed a musical exploration gameinfluenced by Myst, Tron and synth music, FRACT has you wandering through an open world driven entirely by sound. You have real-time control over sounds and as you complete puzzles, you also rebuild mysterious machines that create their own melodies to impact the abstract setting.

FRACT OSC is due out on Steam later this year. Phosfield stated on the game’s official websitethat the Indie Fund partnership is a huge boon in the studio’s effort to get through the final stages of development and launch the title prior to the end of 2013.

Indie Fund itself has built a nice track record in its first three years, successfully funding indie gems such as Monaco, Antichamber, QUBE and Dear Esther. Most recently, The Swapper recouped its Indie Fund investment in less than two days.