Olli Harjola, Otto Hantula, Tom Jubert, Carlo Castellano · Facepalm Games
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Have you played The Swapper? If not, you should swap whatever you're doing right now for playing The Swapper. Originally released back in 2013, it's a sci-fi puzzler that hinges on your ability to create clones of yourself, which then mimic your every movement. From this simple c
<<< BEGIN INCOMING TRANSMISSION >>> Survey expedition reporting again. The maintenance update is now available for all players. The original purpose of this release was addressing bit rot that had accumulated over the years, but we couldn't resist including some
<<< BEGIN INCOMING TRANSMISSION >>> Survey expedition reporting again. Engineering continues deploying corrective patches. Please note that these changes appear only in the beta2025 branch. This update focuses on removing some rough edges (pun intended) in rende
<<< BEGIN INCOMING TRANSMISSION >>> Survey expedition reporting again. Engineering continues deploying corrective patches. Please note that these changes appear only in the beta2025 branch. *** CHANGELOG *** - Audio - more natural sound panning - Audio - made te
<<< BEGIN INCOMING TRANSMISSION >>> Survey expedition reporting. Analysis of cumulative bit degradation over elapsed cycles has yielded actionable intel. Engineering has begun deploying corrective patches addressing critical system instabilities. *** CHANGELOG *
Some of you have been wondering if there's ever going to be another game from the developers of The Swapper. A new game, Noita , by bunch of friends and me (Olli), is launching in Early Access in less than a month: Noita has been a a ton of fun to work on. The game's pixel based
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. When you play the game of clones, you win or you die. Or both. The Swapper is a 2D platformer that asks metaphysical questions about the intersection between consciousness, s
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As befits a game about cloning yourself, The Swapper is multiplying onto PlayStation 4, PS3, and Vita. Facepalm Games' sci-fi puzzle-platformer is fizzing away in Sony test tubes at Curve Studios, the folks behind PlayStation ports of PC games from Proteus to Thomas Was Alone .
Another Humble Indie Bundle? What a strange turn of events. I thought for sure that Humble was going to suddenly and inexplicably shut down their massively successful enterprise this time around. I mean, they’re on Humble Indie Bundle 11 now. What a gross number. Ten – nay, X – w
We've just released an update that we decided to call v1.16. It adds and contains, amongst other boring techy things: Linux support! OSX support! SDL2 as platform abstraction library instead of OpenTK, fixes multiple compatibility issues GPU-scaled fullscreen mode, the game never
We've just released an update that we decided to call v1.16. It adds and contains, amongst other boring techy things: Linux support! OSX support! SDL2 as platform abstraction library instead of OpenTK, fixes multiple compatibility issues GPU-scaled fullscreen mode, the game never
Humble Bundle is stepping into the ring with a new batch of indie games. The Humble Indie Bundle 11 includes up to six games, depending on how much you choose to play, including Drinkbox Games' lucha libre Metrovania beat-'em-up, Guacamelee! Gold Edition , the Escher-esque first-
Now you can explore the dark mysteries of Theseus from the comfort of your sofa! As the title says this update adds native gamepad support to The Swapper. We've put a big effort into making playing with gamepad feel natural by adding snapping support to the map and reworking all
Now you can explore the dark mysteries of Theseus from the comfort of your sofa! As the title says this update adds native gamepad support to The Swapper. We've put a big effort into making playing with gamepad feel natural by adding snapping support to the map and reworking all
Do you hear that? Something’s coming. Something big. It’s… it’s… SEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL. (more…)
Humble Bundle is best-known for its pay-what-you-want bundles, but has now launched something a little less fleeting: the Humble Store. The permanent storefront will sell games for Android as well as PC, Mac, and Linux. It all kicks off with a sale on nine games, including Don't
What would you do if you had a small army of identical, perfectly obedient clones? It’s a question I think we’ve all asked ourselves at least once (usually at around age six) but never really contemplated the ramifications of. Facepalm Games’ The Swapper dives deep into that part
The Swapper is Now Available on Steam and is 25% off Holder of numerous awards and accolades, the Swapper is an atmospheric puzzle platformer set in the furthest reaches of space. Players wield an experimental device able to clone the user and swap control between them. Dropped i