The developers describe The Silent Age as a minimalist game, involving time travel to solve puzzles. The adventure takes you back and forth between present day 1971 and an unsettling future in 2012. Helpful items can be transported across time, and puzzle solving  involves using items from one point in time in the other.

The developers are aiming for a Q1 2012 release and have priced the game at $0.99. While they say The Silent Age is best viewed and played on a tablet, modern Android and iOS devices should be able to play the game. A non-gameplay trailer has been released, showing off the evolution of the art style since the team began work on The Silent Age in the beginning of 2011.

Linda Randazzo, Uni Dahl and Thomas Ryder of House on Fire are designing something pretty to look at for sure. Fingers crossed it will play as well as it looks. This is a little of track, but I poked around the team’s website and found one title pending approval on iOS and Android devices: a puzzle game called Neon Zone. I really like this team’s style!