GIRAFFE — Giraffe

No.6 · G · 2026.10

GIRAFFEGiraffe Giraffa camelopardalis

Stretch your neck, carry the crates, eat every leaf.

Rule
Stretch or lower the neck, bite a crate and carry it, and eat every leaf. A crate dropped on a leaf squashes it.
Stages
30
Controls
arrows move / neck · Z bite & drop · X undo · pause menu: restart / stage select
Price
Free, every stage, in the browser
Rating
—
Made with
PICO-8 / Komugi / 2026.10

PLAY · Full screen

The game loads only when you press play. On phones a controller appears below the screen.

  • gameplay
    gameplay
  • Arrows walk (one step up is fine) and stretch or lower the neck — all the way down to the ground.
  • Z bites the crate in front of your mouth and lets it go. Carry it, lift it over walls, drop it into gaps.
  • While carrying, you keep facing the crate and won't step off a ledge.
  • Drop a crate on a leaf and it's squashed — X takes the move back.

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ルール(首クレーン)

  • 8×7マス横視点。キリンは1列に立ち、体・首・頭が縦に並ぶ(首の長さ -1〜4)
  • 口は「頭の前のマス」に作用:箱をくわえる/はなす。葉っぱは頭のマスで食べる
  • 箱をくわえると向き固定(後ろ歩き)、段差から降りられない。はなすと真下に落下
  • 箱が葉っぱの上に落ちると葉っぱがつぶれる → 詰み表示(葉アイコン点滅+❎が脈打つ)
  • 以前の検証(giraffe/depth-check.md):自由伸縮だけだと手順の6割が高さ合わせの作業。くわえて運ぶを足すと、近い葉から食べる貪欲解が最適の1.4〜3.6倍 → 読みが必要になる

学習の順番(文字なし)

  1. 歩く・首を伸ばす(⬅️➡️ の表示、真上に葉があると⬆️)
  2. 低い天井:首を縮めてくぐる(頭をぶつけたら⬇️が出る)
  3. 箱をくわえて運び、足場にする(口の前に箱があると🅾️)
  4. 段差越しに箱を運ぶ
  5. 箱を首で持ち上げて壁の向こうの穴に落とし、もう一つを足場にする

見た目

  • キリンは1ドットずつ手描き(体2コマ・首パーツ・頭3種)。脚を長く、背中は肩から腰へ下がる斜め、頭は面長。目は点だけ
  • 図形で描いた丸い頭の版や、ほっぺ・口・ハイライト入りの版は「かわいくない/気持ち悪い」で不採用

ステージ生成

  • tools/gen.py:列の高さ+浮き岩+箱+葉のパラメータで山登り。運ぶのが必須の面のみ
  • tools/curate.py:はじめから箱が落ちる面・最初から葉を食べている面・浮き岩だらけの面を除き、難しさ順に25面

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