Independent game guide

CROSSFADER

Flip one room between a top-down puzzle and a side-view platformer, recovering three cassette layers to rebuild a half-remembered song.

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CROSSFADER

One room has two readable sides

Side A presents the room from above for walking, route finding, and spotting hidden objects. Pressing F turns the same space into Side B, where the character can run, jump, and dash through a platforming layout.

The opening flip keeps the character in the corresponding place while changing the walls and floor around her. Cyan and magenta pulses hint that an item is waiting on the opposite side.

Recover the song one cassette at a time

Each room contains three cassettes. The first two restore layers of the music, while collecting the third completes the track and ends the level.

A cassette can appear as a faint ghost from the other perspective. When a path seems blocked, that ghost and the colored beat rings are the best reasons to flip before searching farther.

Charge a temporary third perspective

Collect five Inspirations to fill the Walkman gauge, then press X for a short 3D Hyper-mode. It can reach positions unavailable in either flat view, but objects cannot be collected until the room returns to a normal side.

Subwoofers move one block when pushed and can reshape a route. The pause menu can reset them in rooms that use the mechanic, which is useful when an experiment closes the intended path.

Guide

Move: Use WASD or the arrow keys; Side B and Hyper-mode also allow jumping with Space
Flip: Press F to switch between the top-down Side A and platforming Side B
Dash: Press Shift while playing Side B or Hyper-mode
Hyper-mode: Collect five Inspirations, then press X to enter a short 3D route-building phase
Finish: Recover all three cassettes in a room; the third cassette ends the track

Creator's description

The opening room began in a top-down grid and flipped instantly into a side-on corridor with the same character position, making the two-view navigation idea clear before the first cassette was found.