Homunculus

❕WARNING : this game contains some nudity and body violence. 

Cut your way through a 18th century anatomical chart and give birth to a homunculus. As you dissect flesh, move around bones and untie bundle of nerves, use a chain of human bodies to achieve your macabre alchemist’s design.

💀  A 5-10mn point-and-click puzzle 

💀 A simple goal : create a homunculus

💀 Play with your mouse only and interact with human bodies

💀 Handmade black & white art with multiple animations, baroque music by J.S. Bach

Homunculus is inspired by the work of Jacques Fabien Gautier d’Agoty, a 18th century French anatomist and painter whose bizarre work exposed strangely erotic figures of human bodies cut to pieces. In early biological theories, a spermatozoon was said to contain a fully-formed miniature human being called a « homunculus ». The game is also a nod to alchemy theorists and practicians, who tried to give birth artificially to miniature human beings within flasks for centuries. 

💀 Game design, writing, artwork, programming and sound design by Thibault Rivera

💀 Sounds from Freesound (full credits in the game)

💀 Music by J.S. Bach

💀 Software : Construct 3 (game engine), Reaper (sound  editing), Procreate (art) / Hardware : MacBook Pro 2015, iPad Pro 2020