Paperbound

Entrant 2015


CREATOR
Daniel Holbert

Description

Run with scissors! Duke it out with your friends in arenas from old storybooks where you control gravity and wield weapons including pencils, ink bombs, and scissors. Payers outmaneuver each other by reorienting and flipping their own, personal gravity directions at will. Battle in 2D, single-screen arenas in this competitive, local-multiplayer brawler where fiction comes to life.

Notable mechanics:
*Each player has his own gravity direction that is manipulable. Gravity can be any direction (360 degrees). Gravity adjusts to running surfaces and can be flipped 180 degrees.
*Three weapons all interact in interesting ways--reflecting, exploding, bouncing
*After accomplishing the primary objective, players must escape through a tear in the page to win, changing the pace of the game and creating tension.


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