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Penny's Big Breakaway is a perfect blend of old-school platforming and brilliant innovation


Digital Foundry says that Penny's Big Breakaway is a perfect blend of old-school platforming and brilliant innovation.

Yo-Yo is Penny's personal multi-tool - harnessing its power, players can attack, fly and speed across the map - it's fast, it's original and it's fun. The team started from nothing, learning how to create a 3D engine, model and rig characters and develop an entirely new way of working all while embracing a new programming language never used in a shipping game until now. However, a double-buffer v-sync presents problems: while this is positive for input latency it also means that if the game persistently misses its frame-time target, frame-rate halves.

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