MonkeyedUp

Short cooperative 2-player local multiplayer game. Solve physics-based puzzles in a 2.5D environment in order to help two monkeys escape the circus. Find and use items to proceed in the game. Hide from guards to not be put into cages again (or use them to you advantage 🤔)
The game consists of a tutorial level and two full levels with increasing difficulty. The UI is currently mainly designed for gamepad input, but keyboard input works fine as well.

Background story:

The Circus is one of the most fun experiences a human can attend. Animals and their tamers put on a show that leaves everyone in a euphoric state. When the curtains fall though, a different tone of scream falls into dead ears: Agony of animals break the silence, while they are berated for the small hiccups that happened during the show, or just to fulfill the sadistic nature of certain humans – the reasons became fuzzy after a while.
Two monkeys, part of the circus, have had enough and on one night decide to leave their abusive home for good. They cannot escape the place alone though, they have to work together to succeed. If that would not be enough, the monkeys also have to pay attention to the guards – and sometimes they even have to be smarter than them.
The game starts with the monkeys practicing in the circus tent. Nothing of the hostility between humans and animals should be visible to the audience. The players learn how to control their monkeys and how to interact with objects. But then the monkeys are put back into the cages behind the circus tent, where the audience can't see them. There is one main goal: escape the circus. The only way out is through the main entrance – the other paths are guarded or barricaded with fences. So the monkeys have to get into the circus tent and find a way through the circus tent in order to escape.

Developers:

Börge Scheel, Linus Wigger, Rudolf Varga, Anıl Yarış