Build Your Own Keyboard is an inception-style metroidvania where a platforming hero jumps around on keyboard keys to input commands for a game-within-the-game. Unlockable abilities include additional keyboard keys that get added to the screen to allow more actions for the hero on the small screen. Fitting with the reversed roles theme, the mini-game hero shares an uncanny resemblance with the programmer.

In the developer's opinion, this game is conceptually pretty interesting and definitely his best gamejam effort to date, but it's also his first project in Unity so it is a bit rough around the edges. But he learned a lot and had a lot of fun making this zany game :)

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Build Your Own Keyboard - GMTK 2023.zip 25 MB

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Slight bug: the iframe isn't properly sized in Chrome on Mac OS, and there's no way to run the game in full-screen mode.

Also not working on Firefox on Windows.

good concept and game but I dont see how you are meant to do a jump to the left.
since when you press the space key, by the time you reach the left key, the character is already back to the ground :-/

nevermind, i thought since the "collect all retro things if possible" came up that those doors were the retro things.
jsut realized that you can go thorugh them.


currently failing hard at the sprint jumps, jumping on the space key takes way to long, so the guy has already run of the cliff by then