Hop Swap

Hop Swap is a one-player-inter-dimensional-pseudo-negative-space game that follows a boy's decent to a parallel world where loses his arms. Unlike Yin Yang, Ditto, (or even that non-Nitrome game that people always bring up when you mention negative space: Shift) the player is allowed to shift between both worlds... which you can also do in Shift, but that's beside the point.

Point is, you can do a Portal momentum speedy thing goes in, speedy thing goes out in this one, which Shift definitely does not have as far as I'm concerned. It's more similar to games like Ibb & Obb or the flash game Verge, both of which have momentum puzzles utilizing upside-down worlds. I&B being a chill two player co-op game, and Verge being an existential crisis about mortality.

Hop Swap is more vague with its story despite being relatively less abstract than all the above-mentioned games (especially Shift which takes place entirely on a shape and that's it) there are little things sprinkled in the background that hints at the larger world(s). Especially that billboard saying "HATS! AMAZING!" that one's really insightful about the game's society.

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 * Hop Swap is the future of Yin Yang; or
 * Hop Swap is all a dream of a Nitrome fan who hangs up pictures of their favorite games on the walls. (Silly Sausage, Yin Yang, Rust Bucket, and Leap Day)

TBD…