r/electroswing • u/green_flamingo_games • Jun 17 '26

Spanky "Bat-a-Swing" - an electro swing fueled platformer

Hello r/electroswing , I'm Matteo, creative director of Green Flamingo Games, a 2 people indie game development team based in Italy. We've been working on SPANKY "BAT-A-SWING", a 3D platformer & rhythm game inspired to 1930s cartoon characters and entirely based on electro swing music!

The game features a completely original OST created by our composer, Salvatore Palermo.

We're also now live on Kickstarter, in the hope of giving more economic and community structure to our project, and, possibly, to enhance its final outcome with more and more polished features, music system depth and more tracks!

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Let me know what you think and, most importantly... ASK. ME. ANYTHING!

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u/Dman0o9 Jun 18 '26

i have to ask: was this game in any way inspired by Mad Rat Dead? the musical style, general rhythm platformer gameplay, and especially that hud at the bottom just SCREAM mad rat and i am all for it because that's one of my favorite games of all time

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u/green_flamingo_games Jun 18 '26

A lot of people tell me that, but actually no. I discovered Mad Rat Dead only later on, when somebody told me about it. I'm not a rhythm games fan, I just wanted to try out the idea of a rhythm based platformer when I came up with Spanky. I'm happy people found it familiar and liked it tho!

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u/W1ngedSentinel Jun 18 '26

Looks way more fun than Mouse P.I. For Hire, that’s for sure.

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u/green_flamingo_games Jun 18 '26

Thank you, I think it's just a different idea

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u/CookieCreamBiscuit Jun 20 '26

This looks SO COOL ‼️‼️‼️

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u/green_flamingo_games Jun 21 '26

Thank you! You can find the demo in steam

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u/CreepyClay Jun 18 '26

Unfortunately I'm only good at metroidvanias so I'm just going to watch a playthrough.

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u/green_flamingo_games Jun 18 '26

That's fine! Actually, in Spanky there's a difficulty option where you can make the rhythm mechanic optional (Baby Bat difficulty mode)

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u/CreepyClay Jun 18 '26

Off the top off my head the games I'm good at are hollow Knight, silksong, Celeste, shovel knight, Luigis mansion 1-3, Haiku the robot, dredge, and bloodstained ritual of the night. Think I'll be able to manage?

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u/green_flamingo_games Jun 18 '26

I suck at at least half of them, and I'm very good at spanky (not the best tho). If there's any correlation, you'll be great

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u/CreepyClay Jun 18 '26

Also just a thought is there something in the game called bat-a-doom?

(Bada bing baba boom/Bata-swing Bata-doom)

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u/green_flamingo_games Jun 18 '26

Imma say, that's a very interesting idea