So am currently mucking around with a rough concept with Dragonsoulj for a platformer game where the player literally uses parts of themselves as tools in order to progress through the levels for example: A player might tear out an eye and toss it in a direction to gain a viewpoint opening up a fog of war or extract their intestines for use as a rope to climb up a high section. Of course being only initial inceptions everything is up in the air as to how we fully approach this...for example do we incorporate a frankenstein approach by where you scavenge further body parts to attach to yourself or utilise as tools, can you only carry a certain amount of body parts in which case selecting the right ones might make navigating a level easier or perhaps as you progress through each level you scavenge your own body parts using them up as you push through endeavouring to make it to the other end.

What ever we ultimately end up with I don't know...it's still early days. But the reason I am writing this post is to ask you for the following:

In what ways could you make use of your own body parts to create tools or interactable elements that might serve you in a navigating a platformer? Be creative...be outrageous (but clean).

Should I detach a leg and an eyeball and play golf? I look forward to your responses.

I forget the name of it but there was a flash game I played awhile back (maybe a year ago) where you disassembled your character and used your body parts to trigger switches by throwing them at a button or used them as weights to hold a floor switch down. Sometimes you would dissemble yourself so that you could fit through a corridor to make it to another switch. You just had your legs, arms, body and head though and there weren't any other pieces laying around you could pick up.

One thought might be to not limit yourself to human parts. Eyes or a nose from an animal might give increased sensory abilities. Claws might provide better attacks but limit your ability to work with other elements in the game.

You could make an RPG out of this, but instead of grabbing loot you pick up the interesting parts of the fallen boss and see how they work against the next one.

Way too early to know what direction we end up in to be honest, but I suspect it will stay with a platformer style (with associated story to drive game along). One such story idea I was toying around with last night is: You are Frank, the original made man. You work for a mad scientist who has just finished creating his next great invention. The pay is lousy, the work hours atrocious and you are always ducking the diabolical shrink ray which is set on auto-fluffy rabbit defense mode. Unfortunately the scientist's invention is misbehaving and Frank find's himself on a fantastic voyage through the bowels of the misbehaving whatchamacallit in order to repair the damage before the world is covered in a sea of cute fluffy adorable rabbits....that explode.

There are a few pop culture references in there, so if not sure...google

edit: meh forgot the most important part ----- I want more ideas -- be exotic - be creative -- be disturbing.....what body parts would you use and how?

A player might tear out an eye and toss it in a direction to gain a viewpoint opening up a fog of war or extract their intestines for use as a rope to climb up a high section.

Be creative...be outrageous (but clean).

You and I have very different definitions of 'clean'.

Learn skills by sticking new brains into your head?

Stick ears to walls to act as alarm triggers