Big Hops

NEW FREE PHOTOGRAPHY UPDATE: CAPPLER'S CONSPIRACY

Cappler’s Conspiracy is a new 2+ hour photography game hidden inside BIG HOPS. You’ll meet a conspiracy theorist Owl named Cappler who needs your help exploring some weird ideas. He’ll send you on jobs to prove (or disprove) the existence of Aliens, Ghosts, Mole People, and more. For your efforts you’ll be rewarded with dozens of new camera filters, lenses, and a special Sky Shifter gadget. To find Cappler and get to work, keep an eye out for Cappler’s special symbol hidden throughout the many worlds in BIG HOPS.

BIG HOPS

is a

3D platformer, action-adventure

with deep movement, fresh frog-tongue gameplay, where you can grow veggies to build paths forward!

You'll play as Hop, a young frog who's been kidnapped from home by a trickster spirit called Diss. He has a mysterious, important mission and needs your help, but you just want to get back to your family... After a bit of searching, a wiry old Raccoon offers to build you a way home if you can find a few Airship Parts. To build your Airship, you'll need to:

Infiltrate the

Gulley Gang's Hideout

at the edge of a vast

Red Desert.

Become a

Bucko

and save

DrillCO's Rigs Workers

out on the

Open Ocean.

Sneak past

Haven

cultists by spelunking under a

Shattered Mountain

.

Each World offers a self contained story.

You'll meet a huge cast of characters, learn the conflicts of each world, and hopefully find some way to help. Will that help be altruistic or is it all selfish to get those sweet, sweet Airship Parts? Why did Diss really kidnap you? What's the purpose behind the Dark Drips he keeps asking you to collect? And if you collect them all, will Diss really let you go home?

You'll need to play for yourself to answer all these questions, so consider backing to help us finish BIG HOPS strong!

Next let's talk about gameplay.

Character designs by Steven Sugar (background designer for Steven Universe & Owl House)

Movement is king in BIG HOPS and our kit goes deep.

You can roll, dive, crouch jump, wall run, free climb, swim, belly slide, walk tightropes, pole swing, grind rails, ride minecarts and more. Everyone knows a great platformer starts with a great player controller and Hops' stacks up against the best-of-the-best.

You'll feel inspiration from

Mario

,

Sonic Adventure

,

Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Hat in Time,

and more. And that's all just Hop's basic moveset- from there we've added a ton of froggy flavor and ways to build your own paths forward.

The core-mechanic in BIG HOPS is Hop's versatile frog tongue!

It's cute, goofy, and adds a surprising amount of freshness to this action-puzzle-platformer

Your tongue is how you interact

. Use your tongue to pull items to your hands, hookshot up walls, and tongue-swing your way to ridiculous speeds.

Doors, switches, corks, plungers, flowers, flingers, levers, and lick-picking are all quick work thanks to Hop's tongue.

You'll keep finding novel, goofy tongue interactions even 10+ hours into your playthrough.

Deep movement and tongue-gameplay give BIG HOPS legs and a fresh flavor, but

the real magic is using powerful Veggies to build your own paths through levels

You'll find new types of Veggies as you explore and each has a unique effect when you throw it down in the world

. Let's look at some examples:

Mushrooms

become bounce pads to help clear hard jumps.

Acorns

can grow vines around walls and ceilings to help you climb farther.

Balloons

make temporary platforms and can stack to get serious height.

Oil Balls

create hookshot points you can bounce off without losing speed.

Apples

let you place your own tongue swinging points anywhere.

Cacti

launch tightropes you can use to cross big gaps.

Since you can only hold one item at a time, Hop has a handy Backpack!

As you play, you'll discover new

Veggies

and unlock more

Backpack Slots

to store them. You can open the

Backpack

any time, and using it in a stressful moment will slow down time so you can plan your next moves.

Collectibles

are a genre staple and there are lots in BIG HOPS! We've worked hard to give them all gameplay uses, so you never feel like you're just checking off boxes

Earn

Dark Drips

to help with Diss' mysterious mission and unlock secrets.

Collect

Dark Bits

to earn gameplay modifying

Trinkets

for your backpack.

Buy

Veggies

+ upgrade your

Backpack

,

Wallet

, and more at

Drilson's Depot

.

Buy

Outfits

,

Hats

, &

Dyes

to customize Hop's look at

Odette's Outfitters

.

Find and Identify real

Bugs

to fill your collection in

Bugsy's Conservatory.

Uncover

Blueprints

to build

totally normal

and not-at-all busted

Gadgets

.

Find

Mixtapes

to play on in-game on your

Boombox

or

Hop-man

.

Equipping Trinkets means decorating your Backpack!

That's a weird bug...

Something we're proud of is how many different areas there are in BIG HOPS.

As you explore the 4 main Worlds (Forest, Desert, Ocean, and Mountain), expect a lot of surprising offshoots like the Boneyard, Bucko Cove, Hydro Plant, and Gulley Gang HQ. All these different places to explore really make it feel like you're on a grand adventure!

Hi, Chris here!

I started BIG HOPS in 2019 (6 years ago!!!) with a single goal of modernizing the 3D platformer genre.

The design trend at the time of giving players real freedom and creativity in games like

Zelda: Breath of the Wild

,

Spelunky

, and

Rimworld

was so inspiring. Selfishly and jealously, I wanted to see

emergent gameplay

in my favorite genre.

Since then, BIG HOPS has become a maximalist game and taken on many more ideas and inspirations. Its mechanics, story, vibes, and humor draw on so many games and TV shows stretching back 40 years.

Mario

(64, Odyssey, Sunshine, and Galaxy) and

Zelda

(BOTW, Wind Waker, and Ocarina of Time) have both been huge influences.

We also spend a lot of time talking about

Sonic Adventure

,

Spelunky

,

Kingdom Hearts

,

Psychonauts

,

Avatar: The Last Airbender

,

Spongebob

, and

Steven Universe

.

I founded

Luckshot Games

in 2015 to make innovative, high quality games filled to the brim with character and charm. We funded our first game

Sausage Sports Club

on Kickstarter way back then and released it on Switch and Steam in 2018. We've aimed higher with BIG HOPS and the team is bigger than just

Luckshot Games,

so I want to give everyone a quick shout: