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FACTSHEET

• Game: Zanshin, a zen reflex arcade.
• Developer: Nervous Penguin Studios, an independent app studio.
• Platforms: iPhone and Android, releasing together. Friends can challenge each other across the two.
• Release: Coming soon. This page will carry the date when it is set.
• Price: Free. One optional purchase removes ads and unlocks the soundtrack album. No lives, no energy, no currency.
• Contact: contact@nervouspenguinstudios.com
• Instagram: @nervouspenguinstudios

DESCRIPTION

Zanshin is a reflex arcade game built around a single move: rotation.

Colored walls close in from every side of the screen. Spin the shape at the center so the matching color meets each wall as it arrives. Get it right and the wall passes through. Get it wrong and the run ends.

The rules stay that simple while the game gets deeper. Your shape changes form mid-run, walls switch colors in flight, and some walls are not what they seem. Zanshin rewards a calm head over fast fingers. The name is a Japanese martial arts term for relaxed, steady awareness, and that is the feeling the game is built around.

FEATURES

• A campaign of forty-two handcrafted levels that introduce one idea at a time. The shape folds from triangle to square to pentagon mid-run.
• An authored 250-wall Endless mode with checkpoints. It doesn't actually stop at 250. Deep runs can be suspended and picked up later: a run is one life, not one sitting.
• A daily challenge: thirty walls, the same run for everyone in the world, every day. Your total of completed days is the score.
• Three difficulties, Shoshin, Mushin, and Zanshin. They change the speed, never the content.
• A colorblind mode built with colorblind players and verified against color-vision simulation. It covers the whole game.
• A synthesized soundtrack, with each block of the campaign unlocking its own track.
• Game Center leaderboards, reduce-motion support, and haptics.

ASSETS

App icon · Studio logo · Screenshots (7, PNG, ZIP) · Gameplay video (20s, MP4)

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ABOUT NERVOUS PENGUIN STUDIOS

Nervous Penguin Studios is an independent app studio. It makes games and apps for iPhone and Android: Zanshin is joined by PT Sessions, Jiu-Jitsu Journey, and KeyMatica.