Mr Makeshifter Windows, Mac, Linux game

Mr Makeshifter
An abstract roguelite platformer with ultra-bootstrap crafting elements.
(e.g. rig together a pogo-stick or a spear on the fly, or retain the components for more complex results, dismantle and recombine them into something else to overcome the platforming chaos).

Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux

Purchase the current build: Desura
Note: Early access release date, 20th June 2015
( Unfortunately Desura went bankrupt, but you can still purchase this game in a bundle over at the new 'Groupees' site in an initiate they and the Desura community lady set up ( which is ultra awesome of them! ) here:
Groupees.com

Please also vote for this game on steam greenlight here:
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because... <3

About the game
'Mr Makeshifter' is first and foremost an action platformer. Your goal is your own. Avoid or murder enemies. Obtain some sort of an ending if you like. Otherwise just enjoy the raw platforming experience. Not only do you find, pick up and use tools, but you can also combine tools in different ways to create entirely new tools, (e.g. [spring]+[pole]+[spike]= [pogo-drill-of-stabbing] ~ upon which you can bounce around and destroy terrain with).

Player-driven Endings
This game also has puzzle elements designed to encourage exploration and backtracking. These are ultimately harnessed in the form of player-driven-endings. Players may choose not to 'win the game' by reaching a number of exits, but may instead choose to trigger their own narrative loose ends to tie up into their own ending.
For example, in the full version the player can encounter a wandering creature which they may choose to kill. If instead they choose to befriend the creature, it may lay an egg. this egg may ultimately hatch somehow, and the hatchling may follow the player. a few events down the narrative line and this creature may influence a unique ending that will be satisfying to the player, as they forced it into happening through their own decisions.

These decisions will remain largely organic and action-driven, rather than dialogue choice driven.
For example, where the player might have just chosen from a list of dialogue options, they will instead actually perform an action, (punching, following, ignoring, acknowledging... etc).
Where the player might have just chosen a reward for doing well, they are instead led towards choices that are favourable, and tools that are more useful for combining with, to maintain the momentum of play.

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Design Goals

1. Ultimate Replayability.
2. A brute-force approach to the amount of possible equipment combinations you can use.
3. To utilise the core mechanics of picking up, combining, storing, using, consuming, and dropping tools in the game world, for as many aspects of play as possible.
4. Through mastery of the game's mechanics and equipment combinations, player's moment-to-moment gameplay decisions and goals can be radically shifted from wanderlusty meanderinginto deliberate decisions.
5. Players should have multiple methods for approaching any of multiple potential goals. Players should define these goals themselves as they seek out fun, not just to 'get to the exit'. For example, a player may decide that following a giant mutant insect is a good idea, and in doing so have decided that their short-term goal is to learn about the insect, and their methods involve a range of actions such as attacking it, ignoring it, interacting with it, using items on it, and more.

:: Features ::

• Randomly generated levels
• Pick up and combine equipment with varying use-effects and movement styles
• Dynamic real-time 2D hard shadows to make the experience much more terrifying (more important than it sounds)
• Extensive tutorial
• Playable with an X-Box gamepad (Recommended actually)