First-person exploration puzzler Scale lets you shrink or grow almost anything

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Minotaur in a China Shop developer Steve Swink's upcoming puzzle/exploration game Scale has one of those so simple ideas it's remarkable no one thought of it before: it gives you a gun that lets you grow or shrink almost anything.
For example, a simple tech demo I played at GDC allowed the player to go inside a house, pick up a dollhouse, bring it outside, then shrink the regular house down to a miniature model and blow up the dollhouse to livable proportions. Wild! You can also enlarge a frog until it's so big that you can hop in its mouth and emerge out its rectum, because video games.
The actual Scale ray has a limit, however. It operates on a finite amount of "size juice" and it can't grow some matter without first shrinking something else.
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