Reaching Equilibrium - The Gabagoolians

A vertical platformer where the player controls two characters at once, completing puzzles to progress to the end of the level.

The Gabagoolians (Team 23)'s entry for UKIE February 2026 Game Jam - Theme Symmetry.

We originally wanted a game where you'd have to travel to a parallel version of the level to do X to open Y, but we weren't too happy with the idea. Then, we though of also having a second player which is symmetrical to the first, which leads to the two sides in the game we have.

The aim of the game is to climb to the top of this spire, controlling two skeletons at once. As they are linked together they cannot move out of sync, unless one purposefully disconnects themself, though they'll be forced back together after some time (7.5 seconds).

Controls: 

• A/D to move Left/Right (or Right/Left for the Right skeleton)
• Space to jump (we forgot to add this one to the page originally)
• Q to disconnect the Left skeleton
• E to  disconnect the Right skeleton
• Q/E when disconnected to manually reconnect the Skeleton.

We were going to have more (and it's still in the files), but we didn't add it in the end.. because we didn't feel like it :(... rip cobwebs....