🎮 Techmaniac

Roy Webb is a professional couch potato whose joy lives in a pile of obsolete treasure: old boards, odd gadgets, the kind of tat that only makes sense to the person who kept the box. One day a wind with no manners walks through the room and throws the whole hoard into a place Roy knows only as “the outdoors.”

The plot is retrieval. Someone will list that junk before he does. eBay is not a shop in the game so much as a deadline with a smile. You send Roy into grass and platforms and little cruel gaps to pick up what the weather stole, piece by piece, before the listing goes live in your imagination.

It plays like a handmade Saturday platformer. Jumps are the whole vocabulary. The outdoor tiles are brighter than the couch deserved, and the joke stays kind: the hero is not saving a kingdom. He is saving a relationship with objects that already lost the argument with fashion.

JohnGabrielUK built Techmaniac alone for Godot Wild Jam #35, with Bradinator64 suffering through playtests. The code is GPL, the pictures ask for a name check, and the weekend still shows in the best way. Rooms are short. The wind already did the difficult writing. Your job is to walk into the sun, jump the mean gap, and bring the pile home before it becomes someone else's listing.