Laney, this won't make you happier
Explore a monochrome world as The Dilettante: a shapeshifter who can appear as anything, but struggles to be much of anything.
This is a “jumping and spikes” game with no explicit goal or ending. Your progress is autosaved locally.
Controls
| Action | Keyboard | Gamepad |
| Left / Right | Left / Right | D-Pad Left / Right |
| Jump | Z | Bottom Face Button |
| Orb | X | Left Face Button |
| Rebind controls (keyboard and gamepad) | 1 | - |
| Erase all progress | Backspace | - |
Racing / Timers
Toggle a timer display by pressing [T] on the keyboard. The timer has two modes.
Because the game has no ending, nothing will cause the timer to stop, but you can use it to race your friends towards a chosen goal.
Credits
Inspired by the games of Droqen and Sylvie.
Additional level design by Daniel Linssen.
The layout of this page is inspired by Control the Body by gate.
Thank you to Daniel, Josh, Lindsay, Kai and Torcado for playtesting.
Well, Laney, how do you feel?
Comments
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incredible collective problem solving!
This game is amazing! I absolutely love the movement
this game is crazy cool. did you get sharing 1 tile with neighboring screens from pre-release stuff i said about derelict star or did we independently discover that?
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Sorry! That’s a debug feature I forgot to remove, thank you for letting me know, it is removed now. Holding “X” while screen transitioning is how I created new levels while working on the game.
The neighbouring tiles in this game are actually just duplicated (i.e. all screen transitions are 2 tiles wide/tall). The way you did it in Derelict Star is genius, I wish I’d thought of your solution!
Thanks for playing, I really love Derelict Star & all your other games 🙂
This game is huge!
This game is really neat but the scarcity of checkpoints makes it really frustrating.