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# Astro beauty puzzler Nova-111 gets a financial kick
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/astro-beauty-puzzle-nova-111-gets-financial-kick/
- Published: 2014-07-14T12:12:50.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-26T10:36:03.000Z
- Description: The inscrutably named Funktronic Labs has something brewing.
- Author: Jamin Warren
- Tags: News, Antichamber, Dear Esther, Funktronic Labs, indie fund, Monaco, Nova-111, q games, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

At this point, receiving backing from the folks at the Indie Fund is a bit of a Midas Touch as their track record reads quite well: *[Monaco](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/kill-screen-review-monaco-will-steal-your-time-and-your-heart/?ref=killscreen.com)*, [*Anti-Chamber*](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/alexander-bruce-how-developing-antichamber-made-him-more-humble-positive-person/?ref=killscreen.com), [*Dear Esther*](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/dear-esther-where-do-you-fit/?ref=killscreen.com), and now [one more recently-announced](http://indie-fund.com/2014/07/indie-fund-now-backing-nova-111/?ref=killscreen.com): *[Nova-111](http://nova111.com/?ref=killscreen.com).*

The creators of *Nova-111,* Funktronic Labs, are not a George Clinton side project, but the brainchild of kalin and Eddie Lee who met in Tokyo. Both worked on the famed *Pixeljunk* franchise and the style is clearly on display with what they’re calling a “real-time/turn-based time-vortex.” Not sure what that means exactly but if it has anything to do with Neil deGrasse Tyson’s *Cosmos* idea that [everything that is happening has already happened](http://killscreendaily.com/%20http:/www.thewire.com/culture/2014/03/neil-degrasse-tyson-says-time-travel-is-all-around-us-on-this-weeks-cosmos/359881/?ref=killscreen.com)…then count us in.

![](https://killscreen.com/previously/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nova111-05.png)

![](https://killscreen.com/previously/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nova111-scientists.png)

![](https://killscreen.com/previously/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nova111-03.png)