🌟 Floppa Odyssey
A 3D platformer in its own world and one of Floppaland's five game modes. Princess Sogga's palace has gone dark: Bingus hid every Golden Shrimp inside the palace's magic paintings. Jump into the paintings, win the shrimp back and open the palace again, one door at a time.
The story
Princess Sogga invited everyone to the Golden Shrimp Festival at her palace. But Bingus got there first: he scooped up every Golden Shrimp that lit the palace, hid them inside the magic paintings and locked the doors behind them. Each shrimp you bring back opens more of the palace, until the way up the keep to Bingus is open.
Floppa Palace
The palace stands in the middle of the Floppa Kingdom: a walled island with a harbour, a royal road, guards and townsfolk. Inside, the palace opens up bit by bit. Every door shows how many shrimp it needs, so you always know your next goal. Later, the warp pipe in the basement will lead to whole new hub worlds.
The palace grounds
Open from the start
- The Floppa Kingdom: a town wall with a big gatehouse, the royal road, guards and townsfolk
- Floppa Harbour with boats and a lighthouse to climb
- The moat and the front door
- The garden with a cannon that wakes up later
- A climb up the east wall to a rooftop secret
- A secret at the bottom of the lake
Lobby and painting rooms
Doors for 0, 1, 3 and 8 shrimp
- Bramble Hill Fort, Sunshell Bay and Croaker Swamp behind their paintings
- The east hall with a secret slide behind a curtain
- The boss door for 12 shrimp: Sir Bonkus's Sky Arena
Basement
Opens with Sir Bonkus's key
- A vaulted cellar with a fountain pool to practise the splash pack
- Flood Caverns and Ember Forge, each in its own lit alcove
- The Inner Vault for 20 shrimp: Hollow Manor and Cog Works
- The pipe room for 70 shrimp, where the warp pipe will lead to new hub worlds
Upper floor and keep
Doors for 30 and 50 shrimp
- Four paintings on the upper floor: Frosty Peaks, Giant's Garden, Puffcap Skyway and Dune Ruins
- The keep on the palace roof: Sky Spire and Rainbow Rush in its hall, balconies, a roof walk and a belfry to climb
Paintings
Jump into a painting and the whole world is open: every shrimp in it is out at once, so you collect them in any order. The info card shows what you have found. Most worlds also hide eight red coins, worth one more shrimp, and some have 50 world coins to spend on cosmetics.
The worlds
Every painting leads to a world of its own. 18 worlds in all, 17 of them already playable in the test builds. The wiki has an entry for each one.
🏰 Bramble Hill Fort
A sunny meadow with a terraced hill, a stone fort, a ledge climb and a lift up the cliff with two challenges, a waterfall with a cave behind it, a farm with a windmill carousel and a barn, Spring Lake and the Standing Stones up on the cliff, and the Great Oak. Big Bonker waits on the hilltop.
🏖️ Sunshell Bay
A beach around a deep blue bay with the splash pack: wash Bingus's goo away, climb the lighthouse, dive to a sunken ship, hover to the sea stack, catch the shrimp-snatcher crab and explore Smuggler's Grotto.
🐸 Croaker Swamp
Misty green water, boardwalks and a giant mangrove tree. Throw your cap at a frog to become one and leap to the treetop hut, take on King Croakus, hop the lily pads and find the sunken shrine.
🛡️ Sir Bonkus's Sky Arena
A stormy sky course to a round arena. Dodge Sir Bonkus so he slams into the wall, then hit his glowing back three times. He drops a shrimp and the basement key.
🛷 Secret Palace Slide
A long icy chute behind a curtain: gaps to jump, a hidden shortcut, a slalom, speed pads and a glowing tunnel. Race Skidsy the penguin and beat the clock.
🧸 Tumble Blocks
A giant toy playground in the sky: a block castle, a toy train, a domino race, a marble run, flip blocks and the spinning Top King.
🪁 Breezy Bridges
Grassy mesas over a deep canyon, tied together by rope bridges in the wind. Ride the windmill, glide with kites, catch updrafts and blow away the Gale Gull.
🍄 Bouncy Bluffs
Soft bluffs at sunset full of things that bounce: mushroom caps, drums and jelly. Play Bingo's drum solo, ring the cliff bells and beat the Thunder Drum.
💧 Flood Caverns
A crystal cavern with the Big Pool in the middle. Turn the pump valves to raise and lower the water, ride the water chute and face Mama Eel.
🔥 Ember Forge
A forge inside a volcano: conveyor belts over lava, hammers on a beat, stones you cool with the splash pack, a lava river to surf and the Furnace King.
🏚️ Hollow Manor
A spooky manor on a floating island at night, with a graveyard, a bell tower, a library and a crypt. Become a puffbat to glide to the moonlit isle.
⚙️ Cog Works
Inside a giant clock: gears to ride, pendulums, the minute hand, a music box, a cuckoo and the Wind-Up Knight, all moving on the clock's tick-tock.
❄️ Frosty Peaks
A snowy valley with a terraced mountain, a freezing lake, an ice vault you smash as a rumblerock, a snow lodge and an icy crevasse for wall kicks. Race the snow hare.
🌻 Giant's Garden
You are tiny in a giant's vegetable garden: climb tomato plants and a flowerpot tower, ride the snail, sail the toy boat and beat the Queen Bee.
☁️ Puffcap Skyway
Coloured blocks in a misty sky, joined by cap clouds: hit one with your cap and it turns solid for a few seconds.
🏜️ Dune Ruins
An old desert city half buried in the sand: a palm oasis, quicksand, a boulder ramp, the Sun Temple with a mirror puzzle, sandstorms and the Stone Sphinx.
🗼 Sky Spire
A stone spire above a sea of clouds with floating islands around it. Climb the spiral steps, ride the windmill gondolas and face the Storm Roc at the crown.
🌈 Rainbow Rush
The last world from the plan. Still a test layout: it is being built next.
How it moves
Classic 3D platformer moves are always there. The special tools only appear in the levels built around them.
Always with you
Triple jump, long jump, ground pound, dive, wall kicks, ledge grabs with shimmying and climbing, and swimming.
Cap throw
Throw your cap to hit things, bounce off it in mid-air, or take over a creature: a frog for a huge charged jump, a puffbat to glide across wide gaps, or a heavy rumblerock that smashes cracked ice and walks along the bottom of lakes.
Splash pack
A water backpack for the water levels: hover for a moment and spray away Bingus's goo.
The cast
Floppa
Your own character from the character designer, here as a nimble platforming hero.
Princess Sogga
She invited everyone to the Golden Shrimp Festival at her palace, and leaves hints for you in the halls.
Bingus
Snatched every Golden Shrimp that lit the palace, hid them in the paintings and locked the doors.
Sir Bonkus
Bingus's big bruiser. He guards the basement key in his arena in the sky.
King Croakus
The grumpy frog king of Croaker Swamp, guarding a shrimp Bingus gave him.
Hazel the Hint Keeper
Waits in the palace lobby and always knows your next door, how many shrimp you still need and where to find one.
Friendly, never cruel
Saves as you go
Every shrimp, coin record and opened door is saved to a file in the game folder.
No game over
Falling off costs 10 coins and puts you back on safe ground, and fainting just sends you back to the start of the level.
Secrets
A hidden slide, a rooftop climb, a dive to the bottom of the lake and stepping stones round the keep all hide shrimp in the palace grounds.
💬 Would you play this?
It is still being built. Tell me what you think, what you would add and what you would change.