VVVVVV creator's new game is a Roblox 'obby' about climbing a giant man

VVVVVV creator's new game is a Roblox 'obby' about climbing a giant world

(Visualise credit: Terry Cavanagh | Roblox Corp)

Terry Cavanagh, the creator of indie classics the like VVVVVV and Super Hexagon, just discharged a new game—merely you'll need to sign-leading for Roblox to play it. Climb the Giant Man is an 'obby' (au fon a platformer obstacle course that's prosperous for newcomers to make inside Roblox) created in threesome months by the Irish developer, who has tweeted about his forward motion since early March.

As the epithet implies, the object of Climb the Giant Man is to climb the hulk man, who really is real goliath. On the way thither's a prepared of platforming gauntlets in a format that will personify alone familiar to anyone WHO spends a great deal of time with Roblox. That said, players can as wel take a break from mounting to hang out in bath tubs and coif a spot of disco dancing. There's even driving. Originality isn't very the aim, As the game is sportsmanlike the solution of Cavanagh experimenting with the Roblox toolset.

"I didn't expect how much I was going to love working in Roblox Studio apartment," Cavanagh writes of what was initially meant to be a week-long side project. "I've been working on this on-and-off for about threesome months, which makes IT one of my biggest freeware projects ever." He likewise adds that it probably won't follow his last Roblox game.

While it's not as ubiquitous and attention-grabbing as Fortnite, Roblox is enormously popular, mostly with kids. When Roblox Corporation went public in March information technology was toe-to-toe with EA. Lil Nas X hosted a concert in Roblox that was viewed to a higher degree 30 million times. Oh, and have you played Adopt Me!, a game playable in Roblox? It can sometimes attract to a greater extent than 600,000 synchronal players.

If you desire to render out Climb the Humankind for yourself inside Roblox, head o'er present.

Shaun is PC Gamer's Australian editor and news author. He mostly plays platformers and RPGs, and keeps a close eye on anything of particular interest to antipodean audiences. He (rather compulsively) tracks the movements of the Doom modding community, too.