Stretchmancer

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• Announcements·4 Sept 2026Official

  Stretchmancer Devlogs - Introducing the SLIME

  Hey everyone! Welcome to another Stretchmancer devlog. As the Summer continues baking all of us, we’ve been hard at work on the game. We’ve been designing new levels, polishing up puzzles, and even addressing feedback from all our incredible early playtesters. We figured it was time to peel (stretch?) the curtain back again and dive into another important element of the game - SLIME! Yes, slime. Not goo, and definitely not ooze. Very important distinction. Now, the Stretchmancer normally has the ability to squash and stretch anything they see. But if it’s covered in slime then it cannot be stretched. So, we’ve established what slime is. But why is slime? And specifically, why is it all over the place? That’s thanks to one Cisco Slime, real name Cisco Matthews. He’s a diligent and very disgruntled sub-sub-basement supervisor in Sgt. Squish’s massive space complex. He’s got a pretty big stick up his butt about making sure the basement is kept as clean and tidy as possible. What he fails to realize, though, is that it’s that same exact butt that happens to be leaving un-stretchable swathes of slime everywhere he goes. So the basement is covered in un-stretchable and non-squashable slime, but stretching and squashing are all our Stretchmancer knows! Since the player’s tools are so direct in the game, we wanted to create unique obstacles and obstructions in the game world that force you to think differently about how you use those tools. Since a slime-covered surface can’t be interacted with like normal surfaces, it creates a lot of unique challenges and really makes you stretch outside the box!Visually, we had a pretty clear idea of what slime should be from the start. We wanted it to be…well, slime. Envisioning a clear sort of neon coating that would envelop objects and surfaces in-game was established pretty much from the beginning. The real challenge came from figuring out how to implement that vision in-game. It would take a lot of effort to re-model everything in g...
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• Announcements·16 Jul 2026Official

  Incoming dev diary (Secret Sauce Showcase 2026)

  Hey everyone!Stretchmancer is featured in this year's Secret Sauce Showcase. It's a special live event put together by offbrand games, and we were part of last year's livestream showcase for the event. We called in a favor with our publisher, also offbrand games, and got Stretchmancer into this year's show with a nice new dev diary. Check it out!By the way, did you know we're running a playtest for Stretchmancer? We want players to try out the game early, give us feedback, and help make Stretchmancer the best it can be. If you want a chance to be selected to join that playtest, then you'll have to...Join the Stretchmancer Discord!We share development updates in here and answer questions about the game all the time, so come on in and chat with a friendly rebel crew! We'll have a dedicated channel for sharing speedrun times, too, so you can discuss strats or just flex your times.👉 discord.gg/u5zJsBhsZE 👈💫Wishlist Stretchmancer:Follow us!offbrand games:Twitter: https://x.com/offbrand_gamesBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/offbrand.gamesYouTube: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/offbrandgames/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@offbrand_gamesStretchmancer:Twitter: https://x.com/StretchmancerBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/stretchmancer.bsky.socialYouTube: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stretchmancergameTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stretchmancergame
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• Announcements·28 May 2026Official

  New trailer, courtesy of the Thinky Direct!

  Hey everyone!We've got an exciting surprise for you, and that surprise takes the form of a brand new trailer for Stretchmancer! If you didn't catch it live as part of the Thinky Direct, we've got a handy upload of it right here for you to check out. It's got new environments, new puzzles, and - oh god, so many Squishtroopers.Join the Stretchmancer Discord!We share development updates in here and answer questions about the game all the time, so come on in and chat with a friendly rebel crew! We'll have a dedicated channel for sharing speedrun times, too, so you can discuss strats or just flex your times.👉 discord.gg/u5zJsBhsZE 👈💫Wishlist Stretchmancer:Follow us!offbrand games:Twitter: https://x.com/offbrand_gamesBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/offbrand.gamesYouTube: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/offbrandgames/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@offbrand_gamesStretchmancer:Twitter: https://x.com/StretchmancerBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/stretchmancer.bsky.socialYouTube: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stretchmancergameTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stretchmancergame
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• Announcements·30 Mar 2026Official

  Stretchmancer Devlogs - What the stretch is a Squishtrooper?

  Hey everyone!We’re deep in the game dev caverns right now working hard on Stretchmancer, so it might be a while until you can get your hands on the game. In the meantime, we thought we’d start doing some devlogs to give you a closer look at how development on the game is going! We’ve got a lot of topics and features we want to show off, but we thought we’d start with one of the more exciting ones that you haven’t gotten a chance to see officially anywhere else yet - the Squishtroopers! Alright, so. What the heck are these? Well, for starters, they look a lot nicer now than they do in that picture above. But we’ll get there in a second. The Squishtroopers are loyal, dim-witted servants to the dastardly Sgt. Squish. They’ve got heavy-duty Stifle Rifles that they’ll fire the second they spot you. Luckily, you can stretch and squish any number of things in the environment to get the upper hand on them and defeat them.Initially, Stretchmancer didn’t have any kind of enemies in it at all. When we made the first “vertical slice” version of the game, Sgt. Squish had a line mentioning that he was sending in his “elite Squishtroopers” - but the gag was that they got stuck in the lift, so the player never actually saw them. We really patted ourselves on the back about that one, but then our producer Tom mentioned that it was kind of disappointing that we mention them but never even see them!So, we decided to figure out what the Squishtroopers would actually be. Obviously in terms of their gameplay purpose, we were really inspired by the turrets from Portal. We wanted enemies that were simple to understand, and that could flip the dynamic of the game just by being present. As soon as you enter a room full of Squishtroopers, you need to evade them and stealthily find ways to take them out. Those methods might involve stretching a crate so that it smashes into them, warping the world so that lasers hit them, or just sneaking up behind them to pop their air-release valve and send ...
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• Announcements·10 Dec 2025Official

  Stretchmancer x offbrand games - Publisher Announcement!

  Hey everyone!We've got big news that we're so excited to share - offbrand games will be publishing Stretchmancer! Here's a fun new trailer we put together to celebrate:We couldn't be happier to be partnering with offbrand games - the support they're giving us is going to help make sure that we get to deliver the best, biggest, and stretchiest version of Stretchmancer possible!We're at Day of the Devs!If you were watching this year's Day of the Devs broadcast live, you knew about this announcement before anyone else! You also got to see some exclusive new gameplay and behind-the-scenes bits we haven't shared anywhere else yet 👀If you missed the broadcast though, don't worry - you can catch it here (skip to 44:50 for our section!)Wanna play a new (old) version of Stretchmancer NOW?If you didn't know, the idea for Stretchmancer came together back in 2023 when the team here at Triangle Wave put together a little game jam prototype for Ludum Dare #54. 🦎 https://trianglewave.itch.io/stretchmancer 🦎To celebrate our publisher announcement for the full game, we put together a special free update for the game jam version that includes some quality of life improvements and a new speedrun timer 🔥We'd love for you to check out the itch.io build, see where our stretchy story began, and share your best speedrun times! To do that, you just have to...Join the Stretchmancer Discord!We share development updates in here and answer questions about the game all the time, so come on in and chat with a friendly rebel crew! We'll have a dedicated channel for sharing speedrun times, too, so you can discuss strats or just flex your times.👉 discord.gg/u5zJsBhsZE 👈💫Wishlist Stretchmancer:Follow us!offbrand games:Twitter: https://x.com/offbrand_gamesBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/offbrand.gamesYouTube: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/offbrandgames/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@offbrand_gamesStretchmancer:Twitter: https://x.com/StretchmancerBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/stretchmance...
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