Developer
Release Date
Q1 2025
Platforms
PC only (Steam, Itch.io)
Steam Page
Contact
Media Assets
Google Drive (Trailers, Key Art, etc)
Overview
Boomerang Jack is a swashbuckling 2D action-adventure RPG. You’ll journey from the Pirate King’s ship to the depths of ancient ruins to uncover a dark, impending reality that will shake the world.
- Slash ‘n dash through lightning-fast boomerang combat, epic bosses, and over-the-top acrobatics.
- Unlock and master abilities like bullet-time kicks and telekinetic tornadoes.
- Plunge into a shrouded realm of primordial threats and untapped power to unravel your enigmatic past.
The deadly seas and strange lands you’ll encounter in Boomerang Jack are animated by hand in a semi-top-down 2D pixel-art style.
As you delve deeper into the world of Boomerang Jack you will face unique, fantastical foes including exotic creatures, dark sorcerers, environmental disasters, and vicious pirate scum.
We are inspired by DOOM Eternal’s combat and God of War 1-3’s stylish weaponry.
Fights can be highly dramatic with challenges planted throughout to put you on edge and test your skills and awareness. Grow with Jack and ultimately become a badass boomerang master!
Combat Deep Dive
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Understanding the combat arena and placement of enemies, traps, traversal mechanisms, and powerups is crucial to surviving and wreaking havoc on your enemies
Putting all the elements together creates a deep, rewarding combat experience. Fights present ‘combat puzzles’ involving prioritizing enemies, parkour platforming to them, managing your health and surroundings, using the right abilities against the right foes, and expressing your own unique style. Master your arsenal, think on the fly and become a badass boomerang master.
Grapple-hooking towards a high-priority naga enemy to take it out before it attacks.
Kicking a bottle back at one of the Pirate King’s lackeys as you follow him into the swamps
A bullet-hell inspired boss fight with Jack on a cannon-equipped raft dashing through attacks.
Features
- Challenge 8 multi-phase bosses and 26 orthogonally unique enemies that demand clever movement and varied attacks.
- Master a range of abilities, such as grappling hooks, bullet-time kicks, telekinetic tornadoes, and blinding shockwaves.
- Experiment with unlockable boomerang attacks in a variety of encounters.
- Learn the style ranking system, which encourages skillful aggressive play, often using Jack’s full arsenal throughout a fight.
- Travel across the deadly seas and strange ruins.
- Explore desert, snow, lava, pirate ships, caverns, swamps and more.
- String together parkour moves to fluidly traverse treacherous environments.
- Solve simple puzzles that require light exploration and intuitive use of your abilities.
- Brave bullet-hell raft combat with precise movement and top-down shooting.
- Investigate the Pirate King’s sinister plot and determine how deep it goes.
- Don’t let your past affect you. The mission is the number one priority.
- Uncover a dark impending reality that will shake the world.
About the Developer – Recall Interactive
Boomerang Jack began as a capstone project at the University of Texas at Austin’s Game Development program in August 2018. At that time the team, called Scallywags, consisted of 6 developers working on a Project Saboteur. Work on Saboteur continued after graduation and the game evolved, with a new name – Boomerang Jack. Recall Interactive LLC was founded in 2022.
Here are the current co-founders of Recall Interactive and main developers of Boomerang Jack:
- Farhan Kamal: Farhan leads sound design and music production for the game. Farhan has extensive experience in music production, and experience in game design.
- Izzy Miller: Izzy leads art and animation for the game and its marketing. Izzy has extensive art experience in and out of games, and experience in game design and software.
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Rishi Amarnani: Rishi leads engineering, level design, combat design, VFX and marketing. Rishi has extensive experience in back-end software engineering and game programming.