How a comic book author is making a platformer that looks like his art

Spinch

Transcend the material realm and assume your true form as Spinch, a hyper-agile organism consumed by the quest to rescue a litter of its missing offspring, in this side-scrolling, psychedelic platformer from the mind of award-winning Canadian cartoonist, Jesse Jacobs.

Jesse Jacobs is famous, but you’ve may have never heard of him. That’s because he’s not a game developer, but an award-winner comics author known for his intricate, colourful art style. Go read his comics, if you want to dazzle your eyes. Read Safari Honeymoon, about two newlyweds exploring a dense jungle full of weird creatures. Or read Crawl Space, about a troubled teenager who discovers a portal to a new dimension hidden inside a washing machine. Jacobs’ pages are absolutely bursting with stuff, like a defanged, cuter version of the impossible geometric spaces described by Lovecraft in his works.

Now, though, Jesse Jacobs is working on a game: a psychedelic, hard-as-nails platformer called Spinch.

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