Curiosity

Curiosity is an infinite platformer where you can alter the game through a command-prompt tab. As you move horizontally through the platformer, a narrator guides you in using hacks to change variables and affect the environment. You can experiment to discover what each hack does, or use the list hack to see the available options; it does not reveal the secret hack.

Hacking the game

Press h while the platformer tab is selected to pause the game and wait for input. Switch to the command-prompt tab, enter a hack and press Enter, then provide the requested integer, string or boolean value. Return to the platformer to see the result. For example, changing speed from its default value of 6 to 12 doubles the player's speed.

The hacks let you change the platformer's movement, appearance and behavior:

• ascend: platforms rise into the sky when the player steps on them.
• birdNumber: sets the maximum number of birds you can spawn.
• birdPoop: enables birds to occasionally drop poop.
• birdPoopRate: changes how often birds drop poop; birdPoop must also be enabled.
• birdSpeed: changes how fast birds fly.
• blackhole: enables a black hole that pulls in all sprites and the player's mouse. The game warns that this hack takes control of the mouse while enabled.
• clearScreen: clears the command prompt.
• clone: lets you create player clones by pressing the space bar.
• color: changes the sky's background color using three integers.
• deathTouch: makes the player destroy anything they touch.
• fly: lets the player fly.
• gravity: changes the strength of gravity.
• jump: changes the player's jump height.
• language: changes the words “Dull Platformer” at the top of the tab and the “Ouch” sprites say when they hit their heads on platforms.
• list: displays the available hacks, but not secret.
• morph: changes the player into another sprite in the game, updating the player's hit box and abilities accordingly.
• mousePlay: makes the player the mouse and attempts to give it collision detection. The game warns that this hack takes control of the mouse.
• multiplayer: lets a second player join on the same keyboard, following the instructions shown in-game.
• music: changes the game's sounds to a song, silence or the tutorial again.
• secret: gives the birds and flowers sunglasses.
• speed: changes the player's speed.
• weather: changes the platformer's weather.

Find the key pieces

As you try different hacks, you can find five pieces of a key. Finding all five brings the narrator back and unlocks the ending.