Milodane's abilities consist of making soap bubbles that can glide around, soapboard to hover or grind around and using Tinykin to progress. Players can collect pollen for exchange for an additional bubble. The game has no enemies or health bars, and the only way to die is from falling too far or going in water, making Tinykin a non-violent game. There are six main zones which are described after rooms of a house. A free update on December 20, 2022, added the ability to select and change an outfit for Milodane and added a Time Attack challenge mode for each zone, a mode that players race around the zones.
Throughout their adventure, Milodane and his companions encounter a range of creatures, including ants and other insects who have built elaborate cities and their own cultures in each room of the enormous house they live in, each containing a component. In the process, they discover that the bugs revere a man named 'Ardwin', presumed to be the former human owner of the house.
After collecting all of the components, Milodane is about to return to Aegis, but the machine breaks. Milodane travels to the house's attic, 'The Last Refuge', where he meets Ardwin, who is in fact still alive. Now the size of a bug, and having kept himself alive for decades with robotic parts, he reveals he was a scientist responsible for humanity's exodus from Earth. His shrink ray went haywire and shrank the entire population of the planet, who fled to Aegis, leaving Earth to the bugs – who evolved alongside Tinykin and took over as the dominant species. Ardwin also reveals that the house is permanently stuck via a time-loop in 1991, where the technology is not sufficiently advanced for him to mend his escape ship.
Returning to the workshop, Ardwin discovers they can use a bone dropped by Milodane's dog, Nevus, as the last component for the machine. Finally taking off, Milodane and Ardwin discover the truth: that since Earth's shrinkage, it has been added to a collection of bottled planets by an alien species, which watch over them with scientific interest (thus revealing Milodane and Ardwin's sizes to be microscopic). This was the reason for the time-loop. The ship then returns the heroes to Aegis, and Ardwin rejoins human civilisation.
The game's main protagonist, Milodane "Milo", is an archeologist and researcher from a distant planet, Aegis. The character's inspiration comes from Milo Thatch from Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Daniel Jackson from Stargate. Ghasper is an ant who can jump scare the player. He can be found in every area of the game, except for the main hub.
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