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Stretch reality to solve platforming puzzles in this fun little free gameMade in 72 hours, Stretchmancer won the latest Ludum Dare game jam
Made in 72 hours, Stretchmancer won the latest Ludum Dare game jam
Image credit:Ollie Powell, Tom Carrell, Adam Butcher, Ezgi Hazal Aygan
Image credit:Ollie Powell, Tom Carrell, Adam Butcher, Ezgi Hazal Aygan
Stretch and compress rooms to make your escape in Stretchmancer, a nice little puzzle-platformer you can play for free. Your heroic gecko is a Stretchmancer, see, able to bend the dimensions of spaces to push walls far away and draw distant objects near. This is handy when trying to defeat an evil space empire. Stretchmancer is in a similar vein to Portal: a first-person puzzle-platformer which uses one neat trick to change how you see the world, and builds on that while a baddie taunts you. It’s short, it’s free, it’s fun, and you might enjoy it slightly breaking your eyes.
STRETCHMANCER - Starfox 64 meets Portal (LDJam Winner)Watch on YouTube
STRETCHMANCER - Starfox 64 meets Portal (LDJam Winner)
I could see this being developed into something longer, or the idea giving birth to another game, much like the student project game Narbacular Drop spawned Portal. Or maybe it’s fine as is. It’s fine for games to be short. It’s fine for a fun weekend project to not become a commercial venture which leads you to staking your house as loan collateral which leads you to increasingly sleepless nights of panic which lead you to ruin which leads you to frankly a far more sensible job in a whole other industry as you try to gather the fragments of your life.
You can download Stretchmancer for free for Windowsfrom Itch.io. A version you can play in your brower is also on Itch, though the embedded game box didn’t play right for me.
If you’re curious about how this wonking works, check outthe dev blog postwhich explains the tech with such exciting phrases ass.c^2.w.h.d = w.h.d. As I understand it, that’s maths for “make it do the thing.”
You can see Ludum Dare 54’s full results and all its gamesover here.
