During my time with Amazon, I developed another 2D platformer where you play a washed-up monkey tamer working for a shadow puppet circus. You give commands to your monkey, Anushka, to jump around the stage and impress the crowd, balancing their entertainment with Anushka’s impatience. Rather than control Anushka using a traditional controller, you issue commands to direct Anushka’s movement around the stage. And, for each trick performed by Anushka—jumping through rings or off trapezes—the crowd would cheer at the cost of Anushka’s waning obedience. This conflict between crowd enjoyment and Anushka’s patience made the balance between the two the driving principle behind your decision-making as the ‘monkey tamer’ calling the shots of the show.