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Thin blobs of colour wash across the screen as the tale is set up: you're a boy turned invisible, taking to dark, damp streets in pursuit of a mysterious girl being chased by a strange, wispy beast.ДЄs you begin to explore Rain's city, which is always cast under nightfall and where the rain never ceases, that somber gracefulness is underlined by the cut-glass melancholy of Debussy's Claire de Lune, with gentle percussion provided by the pitter-patter of the drizzle. The delicacy and poise you'd expect from a florist's touch shines through in Rain from its watercolour intro onwards. He pitched to us, and gave us ideas - I found that fascinating.' When I found that out one of the game designers was a florist I was quite surprised. 'We have many talented people in PlayStation C.A.M.P., and they're not necessarily from a game background. 'All the ideas come from the PlayStation C.A.M.P.,' quietly explains producer Noriko Umamura.

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Perhaps that's down to the make-up of the minds behind the PSN game Acquire, the developer best known for the soft-spoken stealth series Tenchu, is handling the main duties, but one of the creators was originally a florist. Rain, the latest product, is a little more delicate than last year's rightly adored shagging and scrapping simulator. It has brought us Trash Panic (something of an unsung wonder itself), sparked off the project that became Echochrome, and recently had its highest profile hit with Tokyo Jungle. is an open-armed initiative that lets anyone with an idea pitch a game to Sony, and if they're successful, to see it through to completion with the assistance of established development talent. The premise is simple, if a little hard to believe. that's Creator Audition Mash-up Project, by the way - is a little department within Japan Studio that's responsible for some of Sony's oddest games.

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Of all Sony's philanthropic ideals - the all-inclusive approach to indie developers, the generosity of PlayStation Plus and the free packet of French fancies that's likely to be bundled with every PS4 console - there's one that remains unsung.