Being a disembodied hand won't stop this cop from dealing out justice

(Image credit: Jeff Ramos)

What happens when you take Matter from The Addams Family and give it a handgun license? You pay back Michael McWrist, a loose carom police detective packed into a concentrated disembodied right.

Handcop is a very odd, very real stake currently existence developed away Brazilian developer Jeff Ramos. Working as a single team, Ramos has had Handcop in the pipeline since at least February, though Handcop truly grabbed the net's attending with a gif posted to Reddit last week with the winking legend "Too lazy to renovate the unimpaired body".

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Public speaking to IGN, Ramos stresses that this International Relations and Security Network't just a gimmick. The developer wants Handcop to be a by rights persuasive stealth-action at law game, using your diminutive height to finger-walk your way around baddies. There are dashes, executions, melee combat and throwable weapons, with plans to attention deficit disorder rings that boost your stats.

"Different from most comedy games, the shooting is for real here," Ramos said. "It is very satisfying and the headshots are superb."

Ramos has been messing with disembodied hand prototypes for some sentence, a habit that he says started when he was "playing finger football with my wife and proverb a TV commercial featuring the hand from The Addams Category". One of these is even playable on Itch, a neon-blasted cyberpunk shooter called Hand of Trouble developed for a game jam last Sept.

Concept sketches of a hand who is a cop — (Image credit: Jeff Ramos)

In the clock since, Handcop has taken happening a more untidy, '80s copper flair, complete with stripy shirt and unaffixed link. Ramos is presently seeking funding and looking a publisher to help make Handcop a reality. He reckons the game has the potential to be "much more what a solo dev with zero financial backin" toilet do—simply fifty-fifty if he doesn't find funding, it sounds like he's determined to make Handcop a reality.

Personally, I look forward to getting my work force on it when it's concluded. Get it?

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