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* SentientCosmicForce: The Watchers are ''rocks'' with no moving parts or organs of any kind, but can communicate with each other and are very much immortal.
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* SentientCosmicForce: The Watchers are ''rocks'' with no moving parts or organs of any kind, but can communicate with each other and are very much immortal. immortal.
* ShoutOut: To real life philosophers Daniel Dennett and David Chalmers.
* ShoutOut: To real life philosophers Daniel Dennett and David Chalmers.
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...Or can it? The device is not easily understood, and unravelling the mysteries behind it, and why the crew of the space station died are one in the same, and not everything as it seems.
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...Or can it? The device is not easily understood, and unravelling the mysteries behind it, and why the crew of the space station died are both one in and the same, same goal, and not everything as it seems.
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* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide: In the ending where you choose to stay marooned on the planet rather than use the Swapper to steal a body of the rescue team, your only option is to jump to a massive bottomless pit to your death, listening to the Watchers' comments as they try to understand what death is and why you are attempting it.]]
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* [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide: In the ending where you choose to stay marooned on the planet rather than use the Swapper to steal a body of the rescue team, planet, your only option is to jump to a massive bottomless pit to your death, listening to the Watchers' comments as they try to understand what death is and why you are attempting it.]]
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* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: In the end the rescue team decides to abandon the main character because she is TouchedByVorlons and swiftly dying, leaving her with two brutal options, to committ suicide or steal the body of a rescue worker and leave her old body to die.]]
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* CosmicHorrorStory
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: When discussing the ideas of human conciousness, Dennett is cynical and Chalmers is an idealist.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: The doctors and the original scavenger, all in one body, use the Swapper one final time to force themselves into the Head Watcher to see if they can "force" him to stop killing them. All it does is make them part of the Watcher HiveMind, and therefore, they become Watchers themselves.]]
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: The doctors and the original scavenger, all in one body, use the Swapper one final time to force themselves into the Head Watcher to see if they can "force" him to stop killing them. All it does is make them part of the Watcher HiveMind, and therefore, they become Watchers themselves. Whether they are content with this, or if its a FateWorseThanDeath, is unknown.]]
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** [[spoiler: And later, The Watchers discuss this too because they have no concept of death or CessationOfExistence, and therefore cannot grasp the fact that they killed the crew of the Thesius.]]
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** [[spoiler: And later, The Watchers discuss this too because they have no concept of death or CessationOfExistence, and therefore cannot grasp the fact that they killed the crew of the Thesius.too.]]
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Watchers. As far as humans can tell, they are space rocks with no organs or moving parts of any kind. But they are alvive, and immortal to the point that they have no grasp on the concept of death or CessationOfExistence, [[spoiler: to the point they don't realize they killed the crew.]]
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* CompleteImmortality: The Watchers have no grasp on what death or CessationOfExistance are.
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* CompleteImmortality: The Watchers have no grasp on what death or CessationOfExistance are.Watchers.
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The Swapper is a puzzle platformer created by indie developer Facepalm Studios, in which the player is an unnamed astronaut who must explore the wreckage of the space station Thesius by manipulating a cloning device called The Swapper, that not only can create clones of yourself, but can "swap" your consciousness into the clones you created.
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* TouchedByVorlons: [[spoiler: Hearing the Watchers in one's head was the indication to the crew they were dying.]]
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* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: You are playing as the first clone of a lone female scavenger using the Swapper for the first time, and are therefore proof that [[YouBastard the Swapper clones you have been killing have their own consciousness.]]]]
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* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: You are playing as the first clone of a lone female scavenger using the Swapper for the first time, and are therefore proof that [[YouBastard the Swapper clones you have been killing have their own consciousness.]]]]]] The game starts when you are first created and tossed out in an EscapePod.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Create up to four clones of yourself, swap controls between them, and [[YouBastard kill them]]. [[CloningBlues Over and over.]]]]
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* BodySurfBodySurf: The Swapper lets you swap places with the clones you create. [[spoiler: Or invade beings you have not.]]
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The models and environments are also created with clay and everyday items, giving it a {{Claymation}} look while still moving at 60 FPS.
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* [[spoiler: SamusIsAGirl: The player is the first clone of the female scavenger.]]
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* DeadpanSnarker: Dennett.
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* RedOniBlueOni: The nature of The Swapper and The Watcher has put Dennett and Chalmers at each other's throats about the nature of each, and [[{{Soul}}the idea of the human consciousness]] for some time. Dennett is TheSpock, scoffing at the idea of a Soul, while Chalmers believes "a soul is not just a brain." [[spoiler: And they've been at it for over a century.]]
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* RedOniBlueOni: The nature of The Swapper and The Watcher has put Dennett and Chalmers at each other's throats about the nature of each, and [[{{Soul}}the idea of the human consciousness]] for some time. Dennett is TheSpock, scoffing at the idea of a Soul, while Chalmers believes is more idealist, believing "a soul is not just a brain." [[spoiler: And they've been at it for over a century.]]
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The Swapper is a puzzle platformer created by indie developer Facepalm Studios, in which the player is an unnamed astronaut with a cloning device called The Swapper, that not only can create clones of yourself, but can "swap" your consciousness into the clones you created.
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The Swapper is a puzzle platformer created by indie developer Facepalm Studios, in which the player is an unnamed astronaut with who must explore the wreckage of the space station Thesius by manipulating a cloning device called The Swapper, that not only can create clones of yourself, but can "swap" your consciousness into the clones you created.
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* RedOniBlueOni: The nature of The Swapper and The Watcher has put Dennett and Chalmers at each other's throats about the nature of each, and [[{{Soul}}idea of conciousness]] for some time. Dennett is TheSpock, scoffing at the idea of a Soul, while Chalmers believes "a soul is not just a brain."
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* RedOniBlueOni: The nature of The Swapper and The Watcher has put Dennett and Chalmers at each other's throats about the nature of each, and [[{{Soul}}idea [[{{Soul}}the idea of conciousness]] the human consciousness]] for some time. Dennett is TheSpock, scoffing at the idea of a Soul, while Chalmers believes "a soul is not just a brain."" [[spoiler: And they've been at it for over a century.]]
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* AlphaBitch: Dennett.
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* RedOniBlueOni: The nature of The Swapper and The Watcher has put Dennett and Chalmers at each other's throats about the nature of each, and [[{{Soul}}idea of conciousness]] for some time. Dennett is TheSpock, scoffing at the idea of a Soul, while Chalmers believes "a soul is not just a brain."
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[[caption-width-right:350:Create up to four clones of yourself, swap controls between them, and kill them. [[CloningBlues Over and over.]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Create up to four clones of yourself, swap controls between them, and kill them. [[CloningBlues Over and over.]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Create up to four clones of yourself, swap controls between them, and kill them. [[CloningBlues Over and over.]]]]
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: The doctors and the original scavenger, all in one body, use the Swapper one final time to force themselves into the Head Watcher to see if they can "force" him to stop killing them. All it does is make them part of the Watcher HiveMind, and therefore, they become Watchers themselves.]]
* [[spoiler: BrainInAJar: Dennett and Chalmers used the Swapper to force themselves into preserved brains in order to survive, trapped for over a century.]]
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* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: You are playing as the first clone of a female scavenger using the Swapper for the first time.]]
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* TalkingToThemself: [[spoiler: Dennett, Chalmers and the Scavenger all end up in the same body, bickering among themselves.]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: You are playing as the first clone of a lone female scavenger using the Swapper for the firsttime.]]time, and are therefore proof that [[YouBastard the Swapper clones you have been killing have their own consciousness.]]]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: You are playing as the first clone of a lone female scavenger using the Swapper for the first
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* YouCannotGraspYouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The humans and Watchers mutually cannot understand each other.
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* CompleteImmortality: The Watchers have no grasp on what death or CessationOfExistance are.
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* OurSoulsAreDifferent: Heavily discussed and debated between Dr. Chalmers and Dr. Dennett. [[spoiler: And later, The Watcher.]]
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* OurSoulsAreDifferent: Heavily discussed and debated between Dr. Chalmers and Dr. Dennett.
** [[spoiler: And later, TheWatcher.]]Watchers discuss this too because they have no concept of death or CessationOfExistence, and therefore cannot grasp the fact that they killed the crew of the Thesius.]]
* SentientCosmicForce: The Watchers are ''rocks'' with no moving parts or organs of any kind, but can communicate with each other and are very much immortal.
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* SentientCosmicForce: The Watchers are ''rocks'' with no moving parts or organs of any kind, but can communicate with each other and are very much immortal.
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* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Two female scientists, Dennett and Chalmers, as well as an unnamed female astronaut.
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* ArcWords: ''You can die here, or you can do what you have to to go on.''
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* SpaceIsNoisy: Averted in free space segments, other than a justifiable "thudd" from firing the Swapper or bumping into objects.
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* HowUnscientific: Dennett cant stand the thought of the idea of a "soul" or that the Swapper "swaps souls about."
* SpaceIsNoisy: Averted in free space segments, other than a justifiable "thudd" from firing the Swapper or bumping intoobjects.objects.
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The Swapper is a puzzle platformer created by indie developer Facepalm Studios, in which the player is an unnamed astronaut with a cloning device called The Swapper, that not only can create clones of yourself, but can "swap" your consciousness into the clones you created.
...Or can it? The device is not easily understood, and unravelling the mysteries behind it, and why the crew of the space station died are one in the same, and not everything as it seems.
The player uses the Swapper to solve puzzles and restore a derelict space station so that you can escape, and many puzzles require you to send clones of yourself to their death while you swap your own consciousness into a new body while the old one gets crushed from falling from too great a height.
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* CloningBlues: Played Straight to a disturbing effect.
* ExpendableClone
* HiveMind: The Watchers.
* SpaceIsNoisy: Averted in free space segments, other than a justifiable "thudd" from firing the Swapper or bumping into objects.
...Or can it? The device is not easily understood, and unravelling the mysteries behind it, and why the crew of the space station died are one in the same, and not everything as it seems.
The player uses the Swapper to solve puzzles and restore a derelict space station so that you can escape, and many puzzles require you to send clones of yourself to their death while you swap your own consciousness into a new body while the old one gets crushed from falling from too great a height.
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!!Examples:
* CloningBlues: Played Straight to a disturbing effect.
* ExpendableClone
* HiveMind: The Watchers.
* SpaceIsNoisy: Averted in free space segments, other than a justifiable "thudd" from firing the Swapper or bumping into objects.
