A Game Called Paako is a pixel-art 2D platformer metagame that tells the story of a game major grad student named Chaoran making his thesis game project: A Game Called Paako.




- (Pretend to) get involved in making this game!
- Some good old platformer with double-jump and wall-jump. (Quality certified!)
- A fishing minigame. (Of course)
- Watch a talk show.
- Find a job, or at least try to.




A Game Called Paako is an MFA thesis project at the University of Southern California by Chaoran Huang, developed with help of Team Paako. For more information, please visit our publisher page. To learn more about the USC Games program, the #1 Games Program in the world, check out the USC Games website, linked to the right.