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* CameraScrew: VERY much so. Often times the camera will turn on its own to a completely irrelevant direction for no apparent reason, and attempting to walk up or down a relatively bumpy hill is nigh impossible because you'll keep getting turned around. Furthermore, the manual camera controls on foot have extremely low sensitivity so you'll have to ''exert yourself'' to face the way you want to face.
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* StylisticSuck: This and other Paul Bird games with the awkward-looking FunnyAnimal models and scrappy overall quality and presentation.
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''The Amazing Shrinking Giraffe'' is a surreal TechDemoGame developed by Paul Bird and released onto UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in 2020. You play as a FunnyAnimal giraffe named Ginger given the ability to [[{{Sizeshifter}} shrink to insect size and grow to galactic size at will]] and tasked with saving the universe from [[TheGreatSerpent primordial serpents]] ranging from a universe-sized dragon to tiny worms.
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!!This game contains examples of:
* TheAgeless: The intro explains that the bigger you are, the slower your brain is and the faster you perceive things, so the apparent FasterThanLightTravel Ginger performs throughout the game actually takes trillions of years.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The serpents are treated this way.
* BabyPlanet: Even when you're a reasonable size, planets are far smaller than they should be and you can circle them in not much time.
* CameraScrew: VERY much so. Often times the camera will turn on its own to a completely irrelevant direction for no apparent reason, and attempting to walk up or down a relatively bumpy hill is nigh impossible because you'll keep getting turned around. Furthermore, the manual camera controls on foot have extremely low sensitivity so you'll have to ''exert yourself'' to face the way you want to face.
* CosmicEntity: Ginger, the Intergalactic Serpent and the Space Dragons.
* CreationMyth: All atoms in the universe were created by the serpents' vibrations at the beginning of time.
* DemBones: Attacking a living creature other than a serpent will only evaporate all of its flesh and internal organs, leaving the skeleton still walking or flying around.
* DetectEvil: You have a compass that points you towards where serpents are, and any structure housing one will have a colorful aura around it.
* DraconicAbomination: The first serpent you kill, the Intergalactic Serpent, is the culmination of primordial snakes from before time or space existed merging into one supreme being by swallowing eachother, said being threatens the equilibrium of the universe by its sheer presence.
* EverythingBreaks: You can destroy any structure up to a galaxy with a click of the mouse, so long as it doesn't house a serpent in which case it will be protected to prevent soft-locking. [[GameBreakingBug Most of the time.]]
* ExcusePlot: The game is a mostly incomplete prototype for experimenting with a mechanic, and the snakes are just there so there's at least something to do other than cruise around the universe.
* FungusHumongous: Some planets have these in place of trees.
* FunnyAnimal: Ginger.
* GottaKillThemAll: The goal of the game is to track down and kill every serpent in the universe.
* TheGreatSerpent: The very first serpent you're tasked with eliminating is roughly the size of the universe.
* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: The goal is to commit genocide on a primordial species of snakes, but they're going to destroy the universe if you don't.
* {{Hammerspace}}: You can press F and G respectively to drive a rocket ship or car to make getting around easier, and you have an infinite "inventory" for spawning living things and random objects which is pretty much useless aside from screwing around.
* HellIsThatNoise: The serpents are a threat to your eardrums as much, if not more so than they are to the universe.
* ItsAWonderfulFailure: If you get killed by a serpent, you get to see [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the entire universe destroyed, with every galaxy combusting one at a time]].
* LifeDrain: Killing and destroying things heals a portion of your health.
* RetroRocket: You can pilot one of these with the F key.
* SandWorm: The fourth serpent on the hierarchy, who crawl on the surface of planets but are still roughly the size of continents.
* {{Sizeshifter}}: The main mechanic of the game is the ability to grow to cosmic size and shrink to insect size at will. As an added bonus, the closer you are to the size of a serpent, the faster you kill it.
* SnakesAreSinister: Every snake in the universe has banded together to destroy it.
* SwordBeam: Ginger's method of attack.
* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: One of the serpents may end up in a spot you're unable to reach or simply be invincible because of a GameBreakingBug.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: [[EverythingBreaks You can very well destroy the universe before the serpents do.]]
* WideOpenSandbox: You have the universe to yourself from the get-go and the only goal is killing the serpents, which you can do at your leisure.
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''The Amazing Shrinking Giraffe'' is a surreal TechDemoGame developed by Paul Bird and released onto UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in 2020. You play as a FunnyAnimal giraffe named Ginger given the ability to [[{{Sizeshifter}} shrink to insect size and grow to galactic size at will]] and tasked with saving the universe from [[TheGreatSerpent primordial serpents]] ranging from a universe-sized dragon to tiny worms.
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!!This game contains examples of:
* TheAgeless: The intro explains that the bigger you are, the slower your brain is and the faster you perceive things, so the apparent FasterThanLightTravel Ginger performs throughout the game actually takes trillions of years.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The serpents are treated this way.
* BabyPlanet: Even when you're a reasonable size, planets are far smaller than they should be and you can circle them in not much time.
* CameraScrew: VERY much so. Often times the camera will turn on its own to a completely irrelevant direction for no apparent reason, and attempting to walk up or down a relatively bumpy hill is nigh impossible because you'll keep getting turned around. Furthermore, the manual camera controls on foot have extremely low sensitivity so you'll have to ''exert yourself'' to face the way you want to face.
* CosmicEntity: Ginger, the Intergalactic Serpent and the Space Dragons.
* CreationMyth: All atoms in the universe were created by the serpents' vibrations at the beginning of time.
* DemBones: Attacking a living creature other than a serpent will only evaporate all of its flesh and internal organs, leaving the skeleton still walking or flying around.
* DetectEvil: You have a compass that points you towards where serpents are, and any structure housing one will have a colorful aura around it.
* DraconicAbomination: The first serpent you kill, the Intergalactic Serpent, is the culmination of primordial snakes from before time or space existed merging into one supreme being by swallowing eachother, said being threatens the equilibrium of the universe by its sheer presence.
* EverythingBreaks: You can destroy any structure up to a galaxy with a click of the mouse, so long as it doesn't house a serpent in which case it will be protected to prevent soft-locking. [[GameBreakingBug Most of the time.]]
* ExcusePlot: The game is a mostly incomplete prototype for experimenting with a mechanic, and the snakes are just there so there's at least something to do other than cruise around the universe.
* FungusHumongous: Some planets have these in place of trees.
* FunnyAnimal: Ginger.
* GottaKillThemAll: The goal of the game is to track down and kill every serpent in the universe.
* TheGreatSerpent: The very first serpent you're tasked with eliminating is roughly the size of the universe.
* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: The goal is to commit genocide on a primordial species of snakes, but they're going to destroy the universe if you don't.
* {{Hammerspace}}: You can press F and G respectively to drive a rocket ship or car to make getting around easier, and you have an infinite "inventory" for spawning living things and random objects which is pretty much useless aside from screwing around.
* HellIsThatNoise: The serpents are a threat to your eardrums as much, if not more so than they are to the universe.
* ItsAWonderfulFailure: If you get killed by a serpent, you get to see [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the entire universe destroyed, with every galaxy combusting one at a time]].
* LifeDrain: Killing and destroying things heals a portion of your health.
* RetroRocket: You can pilot one of these with the F key.
* SandWorm: The fourth serpent on the hierarchy, who crawl on the surface of planets but are still roughly the size of continents.
* {{Sizeshifter}}: The main mechanic of the game is the ability to grow to cosmic size and shrink to insect size at will. As an added bonus, the closer you are to the size of a serpent, the faster you kill it.
* SnakesAreSinister: Every snake in the universe has banded together to destroy it.
* SwordBeam: Ginger's method of attack.
* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: One of the serpents may end up in a spot you're unable to reach or simply be invincible because of a GameBreakingBug.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: [[EverythingBreaks You can very well destroy the universe before the serpents do.]]
* WideOpenSandbox: You have the universe to yourself from the get-go and the only goal is killing the serpents, which you can do at your leisure.
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