made for the very serious juniper dev game jam (https://itch.io/jam/theveryseriousjuniperdevgamejam)

sidney has had enough of her unserious circus job as a juggling ball. luckily, she found a serious job in a spinning ruby mine. help sidney spin her way to seriousness in this very serious puzzle game.

controls

• arrow keys/wasd/zqsd: spin the world
• space: flip the gravity
• backspace: pop and respawn at the last checkpoint

if you're playing on a steam deck in game mode, make sure you select the keyboard (wasd) and mouse preset in the controller settings for the game.

credits

all assets (minus the fonts, comic sans and topaz) were made by me from scratch for the game. here's the serious hardware and software i used:

• engine: game maker 8 (proof of concept), game maker lts 2026
• graphics: game maker sprite editor, krita (for the story art), flatbed scanner (for the crumpled paper background)
• sounds: stones and dirt in my garden, door lock + house keys, drinking glass + teaspoon, amiga 2000 + real floppy disk, nokia 808 pureview for recording, audacity for cutting/post-processing
• music: reaper + built-in plugins, dexed, mt-powerdrumkit, dsk synthdrums, synth1

thanks to sheepboy for reporting a very serious bug!