Up the Great Oak

Center of gravity always wins.

Pip is a tiny beetle in an acorn cap who has spent a whole life among the roots of a great oak. Somewhere above the canopy is the rest of the world. The only way to see it is up.

Landing is the skill
Hold to charge, release to leap. Once you jump, the arc is yours — no air control. But unlike other climbing games, touching down is not the end of the jump. Your body has a hinge and a center of mass. Land with momentum and you keep rolling. Let your weight hang past the edge and you tip over. You always see it coming: the beetle wobbles on the brink before it falls.

One rule, many surfaces
Rough bark holds you. Waxy leaves let you slide. Sticky resin kills your bounce. Morning dew barely holds at all. Wind sways the high branches in steady, readable rhythms. Every new challenge follows the same rule you learned on the first branch.

Falls are designed, not random
There are no checkpoints and no lives. When you fall, you fall — but every drop in the tree is placed by hand. Each part of the climb has a floor that catches you. The rare places where you can lose everything are the ones where you can see the whole way down.

A warm climb
This is not a game that laughs at you. The oak is alive: ants carry on along the bark, spiders keep watch under the branches, fireflies drift through the shade. Your parents wait among the roots — fall all the way back down, and they will be there. The view opens wider with every tier, from the roots to the open sky.

Features
A precision climbing game where landing matters as much as jumping

Deterministic physics: the same jump always lands the same way

60 hand-built screens climbing from the roots through the bark, branches, and canopy to the sky

Surfaces that change your grip: bark, leaves, resin, dew — plus wind in the canopy and thin branches that sway as you charge

No checkpoints, no lives, no randomness

Keyboard and controller, fully remappable

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