Interactive / Clive ‘N’ Wrench

On the eve of Clive ‘N’ Wrench’s launch, we catch up with solo dev Rob Wass to reflect on his decade-long passion project

Right up there with roguelikes and Metroidvanias, another old-school genre that continues to boom is the throwback 3D platformer. Yes, games in which you must carefully guide a character (often alongside a cutesy companion) as they jump, hop, or bounce from one scenario to another are firmly back in fashion, as indicated by Spyro and Crash’s recent-ish remasters and the several indie homages that followed. One person to have foreseen the style’s potential for glorious return is Rob Wass, who first decided to do something about its absence some twelve years ago. “Around 2010 or 2011 I’d been noticing how few 3D platformers there were on the market; it seemed the genre was all but dead,” Wass remembers. “I even went as far as creating a YouTube video outlining my…

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