During The Game Awards‘ Opening Act, the 30-minute pre-show before the show-show begins, developer Day 4 Night unveiled a quirky little trailer for a super-nostalgic 3D platformer with a cute little badger trying to save his home. Move over, Mario and Donkey Kong, because there’s a new jumpman in town … or the woods–wherever badgers live.
Bradley the Badger is an upcoming action-adventure platform that, according to its Steam Store page, is a “love letter to games.” More specifically, the game is this hodgepodge of game-development ideas and faux pas. There are unfinished game worlds you’ll have to put back together, “under review” cathedrals you’ll have to explore, and copious enemies to find as you do it all.
As the trailer continues, they are fascinating worlds with funny names: Badgerborne, Cyberbadger, The Last Badger, and the like, all based on tropey game concepts. It’s a little reminiscent of Hazelight Studios’ Split Fiction.
