I Wanna Maker
2023
- shooter
- platform
- indie
- arcade
- action
- single player
The story
I Wanna Maker is a precision platformer with a robust level editor and online level sharing, based on I Wanna Be The Guy fangames. Create complex levels using a variety of objects, a powerful events system, and customizable visuals. Browse levels online, make playlists, and take on challenge modes!
What it’s like
Chunky pixel art on a bright, flat palette, with cartoonish sprites that bounce and squash against tiled backdrops, and a chiptune-leaning soundtrack that loops cheerfully until a death resets the room with a sharp, comic sting. The look is deliberately retro and homemade, closer to a hobbyist's sketchbook than a polished arcade cabinet, and the visual language shifts with each stage because you are constantly looking at someone else's taste. Movement is tight and unforgiving: precise jumps, wall jumps, and one-hit deaths that send you back to a save point, so the rhythm is stop-start, a run of brief attempts broken by pauses to plan the next leap. The vibe is mischievous and stubborn, a mix of fond parody and genuine frustration, best suited to an evening of trying one room again or to tinkering with a level in the editor while the day winds down. Deaths are frequent and the sprites are often gruesomely cartoonish, though the blood is small and comic rather than realistic, and there is no gore beyond that. This is for players who enjoy hard, repetitive precision and who like building or browsing levels made by strangers, rather than anyone wanting something gentle or relaxed.
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