Bounce your way through a cursed forest in this challenging 3D puzzle platformer.

In Bouncing Back you play as a Jack-in-the-Box who's a long way from home.

After sneaking out of the fancy keep all the Jack-in-the-boxes live in (also called The Box), you are immediately kidnapped by a giant bird, and after a fight find yourself dropped in a cursed forest that the bird controls.

Work with your new friend - the ghost of a weasel - to collect the gems needed to traverse the forest and start making your way home.

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As a Jack-in-the-box, you are not confined to your box, but after your recent experiences, you're not too keen to leave its indestructible safety. Luckily for you, you can teleport back to the box at any time. This is useful for solving puzzles, but watch that confidence meter, which ticks down faster the further you are from the box. When it hits zero, you're going back whether you want to or not.

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The save system should be fully-functional, but there's no autosave, so remember to pick it from the pause menu. I've tested it in the web build, and it does seem to work.

Controls

Keyboard + Mouse

The game should be fully playable with just the keyboard, the camera will try and do sane things, but I can't promise that. Use the mouse if you want full camera control, and to spread the buttons out a bit.

• W/A/S/D - Move
• SPACE - Jump - When in the box, hold to charge your jump, and then release to move
• SHIFT - Crouch or Hide in the box
• F - Interact / Read / Talk / Pick Up / Drop / Etc
• ~ (the button to the left of 1) - Recenter camera
• MOUSE - Move the camera
• ESC - Pause
• R or Left Mouse - Attack/Throw
• TAB or Right Mouse - "POP": Get in our out of the box, open or close the box if your not in it, tap it to look towards the box if your far away, and hold to immediately teleport to the box. If you're in the box and not moving, this will pick it up, otherwise you'll jump off.

Controller

I'm going to write these out as if you have an X-box style controller with Y on top and B on the bottom. You'll have to mentally switch them if you've got a Nintendo-style controller.

• L-Stick - Move
• R-Stick - Camera
• B - Jump - When in the box, hold to charge your jump, and then release to move
• Left Trigger - Crouch or Hide in the box
• A - Interact / Read / Talk / Pick Up / Drop / Etc
• Right Bumper - Recenter camera
• Start - Pause
• X  - Attack/Throw
• Y - "POP": Get in our out of the box, open or close the box if your not in it, tap it to look towards the box if your far away, and hold to immediately teleport to the box. If you're in the box and not moving, this will pick it up, otherwise you'll jump off.

The Pitch Video