Paraplegic Character Stars in Game: Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

[jesse_the_k]

Yes, the developer's name is in the game, because he chats with you as you play.

http://www.foddy.net/2017/09/getting-over-it/

Why I'm posting it here: This game's character has the capabilities of a very strong paraplegic. It's a man sitting in an round-bottom iron cooking pot, climbing a treacherous landscape using only his upper body and the levering power of a very long sledgehammer. The game provides infinite opportunities to get it wrong, and you can't save your progress.

I'm not a gamer, so I may have been looking in the wrong place, but as far as I can tell nobody is talking about this disability angle.

Windows or macOS on STEAM $7.50, iOS $5

Comments

[sasha_feather]

That looks neat!!

[pebblerocker]

I do remember thinking, while watching a Youtuber attempting to play it, that there are probably real people with that much upper body strength. The character's control while balancing on the head of the hammer, or using it to push off things, is incredible - though the player's likely isn't!

I don't believe the game ever does offer an explanation of why the guy's in a cauldron. Here you are, here's the game, you've got no legs and that's just how it is.