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Flingabot — Master's Thesis
An experiment in "unexpected gameplay": an Angry Birds–style fling that suddenly becomes a 2.5D platformer.
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My Master’s thesis at the IT University of Copenhagen explored a question inspired by From Dusk Till Dawn: what happens when a game suddenly switches genre on you — “unexpected gameplay”?
In Flingabot you start out playing an Angry Birds–style flinging game. Then the robot you fling gets struck by lightning, comes alive, and the whole thing drops into a 2.5D platformer. The result was a genuinely interesting study in how players react when their expectations of a game are deliberately broken mid-play.