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More_Badass · Oct 17, 2013

Developed by CubeHeart
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Scale gives players a tool for uncovering the secrets and hidden beauty of everyday objects. Experience the impossible joy of growing and shrinking with a simple handheld device. Everything can be scaled: world, objects, creatures, and inhabitants. Discover secrets within secrets within secrets.

So that means you can do things like this:

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Screenshots from 2015/2016, including the redesigned scale gun and art style

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You play as young physics savant Penny Prince, inventor of a device which can suck the size out of one thing and shoot it into another. SCALE begins as Penny awakes in prison, convicted of 9,322,591 counts of Depraved Heart Murder for accidentally destroying the east coast. Someone has confiscated her cat. Against the express advice of the rehabilitative therapy coordinator now living inside her brain, she hastily reconstructs her device using materials from a nearby cellphone recycling bin and embarks upon escape in an attempt to regain her freedom and her cat.

You wield a device that can make any item any size. A tree, a wall, an enemy, a passing cloud, even the levels themselves are all "SCALEable". Space is relative in the game so progress is as much conceptual as it is physical. The unique mechanic of SCALEing is inspired by games like Portal and The Swapper. Progression through the game is freeform and open like Mario 64 or early Zelda overworlds. Its all about exploring and discovering secrets!

Some stretch goals:
100K - Oculus Rift support
Due to how were making the game, it should be pretty easy for us to add support for the Oculus Rift, which is why Oculus support is our first and lowest Stretch Goal.

125K - Unlock Dales SCALE custom companion comic
Dales writing the game by using up the last jot of love and passion in an otherwise cold and robotic heart. But with some extra money we could activate his for-profit subroutine and tap into a rich dark vein of wild SCALE-themed comics undreamt of in this modern age. Dale experts tell us its dark magic would create a special companion comic for the game that would go with you wherever you went.

150K - Hire Additional 3D Artist
An additional 3D artist means well not only be able to have more art in the game, but well be able to have better art, as there will be more time refine for the artists to refine their work.

175K - Level Editor
With a level editor, youll be able to build the worlds youve always dreamed of, and then make them really, really big or really, really tiny and watch your friends play them. However, youll need to supply your own Zoolander style what is this, a _____ for ANTS?!?! jokes.
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And yes, you can climb into a grown frog and out its asshole:

Sir Griffith · Oct 17, 2013

Last two gifs will induce nightmares, for sure.

gofreak · Oct 17, 2013

Cool concept. Trying to remember anything similar, almost surprised if no one's done it before (?)

Rift support could be pretty trippy with the scaling.

roke2810 · Oct 17, 2013

The last scene in their kickstarter video... that sold me. I backed.

JDSN · Oct 17, 2013

All games should allow the player to crawl out of a frog's asshole.

syko de4d · Oct 17, 2013

ha was a great idea. This could be the new Portal Gun, from a creative standpoint.

I hope it will reach the Rift support lvl, could be funny in VR

More_Badass · Oct 17, 2013

Here's REV3/Adam Sessler's interview with the dev and his impressions of Scale from the PAX Indie Megabooth:
Shrink and Grow Anything in SCALE - Indie Megabooth's Unique First-Person Puzzle Adventure

Messofanego · Oct 17, 2013

The writer is Dale Beran, who did A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible which is a great absurd surealist webcomic drawn by the Braid artist, David Hellman.

Cameron122 · Oct 17, 2013

The Frog Asshole revolution is upon us

GuitarAtomik · Oct 17, 2013

Huh. That's pretty cool. Looks like a lot of fun.

More_Badass · Oct 17, 2013

Messofanego said:
The writer is Dale Beran, who did A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible which is a great absurd surealist webcomic drawn by the Braid artist, David Hellman.

Oh good, you're here. We need some awesome GIFs! (Not sure if you can make them out of the KS video). That last part with the canyon is so cool

Messofanego · Oct 17, 2013

Now arachnophobes can turn their NOPE of spiders into the most minuscule of problems!

Not So Grand Canyon

More_Badass · Oct 17, 2013

Nice! That level shrinking is just so cool. So much potential here for cool puzzles.

And I love the scene in the video when the player grows the chest and climbs inside. I don't think I've ever seen anything like that in a game before

i hate bees · Oct 17, 2013

Count down until Valve hire them...

keit4 · Oct 18, 2013

WAT

This guy from Deadliest Warrior is working in this game (he also worked on Unfinished Swan).

More_Badass · Oct 18, 2013

keit4 said:
WAT

This guy from Deadliest Warrior is working in this game (he also worked on Unfinished Swan).

Didn't even notice that

Also, now that I checked, the music is being done by the guys who worked on soundtracks for FTL, Super Meat Boy, Binding of Issac, and Drifter

mclem · Oct 18, 2013

Looks interesting, but I'm going to need some proof-of-concept puzzle designs before I'll have faith in the potential of this; I fear there's a good risk of most puzzles boiling down to "make object X the right size to bridge a gap", and that would get tired quickly.

More_Badass · Oct 18, 2013

SCALE video update with new gameplay and developer commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSqkOHUdl8o

And from the video, it seems like you can use objects to gain momentum and boost your jumps, so I'm guessing those maneuvers will factor into the puzzles

DrZeus · Oct 18, 2013

i hate bees said:
Count down until Valve hire them...

Ha! Game looks very interesting and am looking forward to following its development.

McBradders · Oct 19, 2013

This looks freaking incredible. Backed.

Wolves Evolve · Oct 19, 2013

Crazy how nobody has mentioned this is Steve Swink's game.

Steve Goddamned Swink.

Motion Picture Soundtrack · Oct 19, 2013

Interesting concept but god that plot sounds cringe inducingly unfunny. If they want to go the Portal-esque comedy route hopefully they hire some better writers.

More_Badass · Oct 19, 2013

Motion Picture Soundtrack said:
Interesting concept but god that plot sounds cringe inducingly unfunny. If they want to go the Portal-esque comedy route hopefully they hire some better writers.

The story is supposed to be absurd and unrealistic. The author is know for his surreal over-the-top webcomic

LiquidMetal14 · Oct 19, 2013

Any word on a Steam version? 10 dollars is not asking a lot but he's only at 31k~ of his total goal. Looks really compelling and fun.

To be fair to this KS, it just started.

More_Badass · Oct 19, 2013

LiquidMetal14 said:
Any word on a Steam version? 10 dollars is not asking a lot but he's only at 31k~ of his total goal. Looks really compelling and fun.

To be fair to this KS, it just started.

According to the KS page, you get a DRM-free version and Steam key for the $10 tier

This is the main deal! If you pledge right now, youll get a DRM free copy of SCALE and a Steam key

Jon of the Wired · Oct 19, 2013

Hm, interesting. This is conceptually similar to (and shares a name with) a game some of my friends made at a game jam many years ago http://www.tojam.ca/games_2009/scale.asp .

It seems unlikely they would have ever seen my friend's game, though, so I guess this is just a funny example of convergent evolution.

LiquidMetal14 · Oct 19, 2013

More_Badass said:
According to the KS page, you get a DRM-free version and Steam key for the $10 tier

I'm in.

Officially backed. Looks fun and for 10 and Steam I can't deny.

More_Badass · Oct 21, 2013

Second update video, showing off the desert level mechanic

Also this:

Were exceptionally pleased to announce that weve added bonus games in the form of GAME PACKS at two (2) new reward tiers! Now you can select a $15 dollar tier (SCALE + Inputting Edition) which includes SCALE and a copy of Steves game, Inputting, which was previously only available in the LA GAME SPACE Game Pack. At the new $20 tier (SCALE + Friends of Scale Pack), youll get SCALE, Inputting, and STEAM KEYS for four additional, incredible, award-winning games by friends and members of CubeHeart: Noitu Love 2, Electronic Super Joy, Incredipede, and Osmos.

ekim · Oct 21, 2013

Really nice and sympathetic video. I'm sooooo close to backing it.

More_Badass · Oct 22, 2013

So according to the dev on KS, each world will have its own twist on the scaling mechanic. So for example, in the desert level, your gun has become so powerful that it can scale the entire world at once, but not individual objects.

More_Badass · Oct 23, 2013

Heads up, the devs will be doing an AMA on Reddit at 1PST/4PM EST.

Chezzymann · Oct 23, 2013

Saw this in an extremely early state at some indie game convention a few years ago. It was really awesome. I'm totally gonna back this.

TheJollyCorner · Oct 23, 2013

I just.... I..... huh?

wildfire · Oct 23, 2013

I'm tempted to back this project. I've been avoiding backing projects after this summer to reduce my exposure to risk of failures. But this project is just way too cool and has so much potential. I will need to know more about the developer.

daveo42 · Oct 23, 2013

Seems like a pretty neat idea and hope that they do a lot of awesome things with. Currently considering kickstarting it.

I completely agree game. Not wanting to go through that frog ass either.

More_Badass · Oct 23, 2013

Reddit link:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1p2moe/we_are_the_team_of_indie_game_developers_making/

wildfire · Oct 23, 2013

Alright I'm impressed. Developers have completed projects in the past. World enlarging portion demo is just stage 2. DRM free copy. Designers who I have confidence in making a fun game. Backed it.

efyu_lemonardo · Oct 23, 2013

will definitely be backing this, right after my next payday.

More_Badass · Oct 23, 2013

Some cool things from the AMA:

well, mass scales with size of course. We'd also like to experiment with the non-linear nature of physical laws, like how surface area is proportional to size-squared while mass is proportional to mass-cubed. So aerodynamics change w size, eg. big butterflies can't fly. At small sizes, surface tension dominates, eg. big things sink while small things float on water. etc.

Might be a joke but...

If you're inside an object - a House or a moose, for example - and you shrink it down...you'll be crushed and explode in a hilarious shower of gibs.

In response to "What are you going to do differently than all the other gaming Kickstarter campaigns that failed or are failing?"

For starters, we don't just have a concept, we have a working prototype and have proven out our core mechanic-- a good chunk of the game was playable at PAX, which is what has Adam Sessler so pumped in this interview. He know's scaling is a hard problem in games, and he's seen tons of games, so trust his excitement when he thinks we've cracked it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLF4kNr_Bk0
Second, we've run the numbers and are asking for the money that will give us the time we think we need to make the game good. We're not going to pull a Dark Matter, and even if we were, we wouldn't save it as a nasty surprise for people who bought the game. We want to keep our backers informed and bring them along for the ride with us.

Mobius and pet octopus · Oct 23, 2013

Looks cool but I am not funding anymore kickstarters with stretch goals.

braves01 · Oct 23, 2013

Dicks will be scaled.

ThoseDeafMutes · Oct 24, 2013

gofreak said:
Cool concept. Trying to remember anything similar, almost surprised if no one's done it before (?)

Rift support could be pretty trippy with the scaling.

Student project at my university did it last year. Not as polished or graphically complex though.

More_Badass · Oct 24, 2013

A bunch of GIFs from Imgur showing off new areas and gameplay
http://imgur.com/a/RJfUw#0

More_Badass · Oct 26, 2013

New update, new level

More_Badass · Oct 28, 2013

From the new update:

Were officially working with Valve and SCALE will be released on STEAM! Your pledge will entitle you to both a STEAM key or DRM-free version of the game on Windows, Mac, or Linux, and because were supporting Linux, were aiming to support the SteamOS/Steam Machines as well. SCALE will support gamepads/controllers natively, too!

gofreak · Nov 6, 2013

Stretch goal for a PS4 version announced:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1188957169/scale/posts

It seems like the moon scaling video we did yesterday is catching on. HOT DIGGITY. The big news for today is that we can officially announce that we are partnering with Sony to potentially bring SCALE to PS4!

I say potentially only because porting games is expensive! It takes a lot of our time to make the game work well and feel good on additional platforms. The unfortunate reality is that development time equals money. If we can reach our stretch goal of 200k, we can make SCALE on PS4 a reality. I figured we should announce that now while theres still plenty of time left to hit that goal.

9 days left.

EvB · Nov 6, 2013

trying to back it but the amazon payments won't work

Heart of Black · Nov 6, 2013

I.. am floored this hasn't hit it's goal.

Dwayne · Nov 9, 2013

80% of the way!! Hope it makes it.

Dwayne · Nov 13, 2013

We made it!
Though it looks unlikely, there's potential to hit the PS4 stretch goal

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