Toodee and Topdee

Toodee and Topdee mixes top-down box-shoving with side-on platforming in one game. The player switches between a top-down view for box-shoving puzzles and a side-on view for platforming at the press of a button. Game Maker's Toolkit uses it as an example of blending two genres' mechanics to make something new.

Mark Brown pairs it with Crypt of the Necrodancer, a rhythm-based roguelike, to argue that merging genres can make novel games and even new genres. He says it freshens a genre "by looking outside of current conventions". A second Game Maker's Toolkit video names it among the inventive 2021 games that mix two genres in one design.

Toodee and Topdee mixes top-down box-shoving with side-on platforming in one game. The player switches between a top-down view for box-shoving puzzles and a side-on view for platforming at the press of a button. Game Maker's Toolkit uses it as an example of blending two genres' mechanics to make something new.

Mark Brown pairs it with Crypt of the Necrodancer, a rhythm-based roguelike, to argue that merging genres can make novel games and even new genres. He says it freshens a genre "by looking outside of current conventions". A second Game Maker's Toolkit video names it among the inventive 2021 games that mix two genres in one design.