In Toona Falls, nothing ever sticks.
IRL means In Real Life — and Toona Falls is anything but. Nobody can die, nothing hurts, and nothing ever sticks. Washed-out toon Carl is done living on reset, so he builds a machine to drag himself IRL: real mortality, real consequences, no do-overs. On the most dangerous day of the year, it works — on everybody.
Beta test — this game is a work in progress. You may run into bugs, glitches, or unfinished features, and things may change or reset as we keep building it. Thanks for playing and for letting us know what you find.
The neighbor, this morning: an anvil to the head — stars, spiral eyes, still waving. Carl, on the right, has seen it a thousand times. He’ll be fine by lunch.
Flip it off and the whole town goes mortal. That's the pilot.
Meet the Household
Carl has no wife and kids of his own. He lives with his sister and her kids — which means when his machine goes off, the first people in real danger are the ones at his own kitchen table.
A background toon in his 30s. Not a star — just a guy who resets every morning: same gags, same injuries that don't stick, same laugh track. He's not angry at anyone. He's tired of a life where nothing he does ever counts. When his machine goes off, he's the first person in town to realize what he's done.
Grounded, the heart of the house, and the first person Carl runs to save. She also has one thing nobody can explain: impossible luck — and it's the one thing that doesn't change when the world turns mortal.
A toon teenager who uses cartoon logic like a cheat code — always pushing limits, always landing on her feet. Until the day landing starts to hurt.
Cautious, quiet, and the smartest one in the room. Carl realizes what the shockwave did first — TJ figures it out second, right after Carl, and he's the one who works out what it means.
Everybody in Toona Falls wears white rubber-hose gloves, and nobody knows why. Pull one off and the whole hand comes with it — and runs around on its own until Carl hits the button on his machine. It's a running gag. Until the day taking a glove off means something completely different.
Next door lives the cheeriest man in Toona Falls — round face, big grin, mustard blazer, tortoiseshell glasses. He waves at Carl every single morning. Carl has never once waved back first. Some mornings, that's the whole tragedy.
The Town
A small suburban town of Mom-and-Pop shops, quiet streets, and one main street — home of the annual Toona Palooza festival, the most dangerous day of the year. Population: immortal. And counting.
The Pilot — “Toona Palooza”
Dark comedy with heart. R-rated for language, adult themes, and cartoon violence that suddenly has real weight — funny because it's absurd, tense because for the first time, it matters.
Once a year, Toona Palooza turns the whole town into a stunt show — and every year, nobody gets hurt. Carl watches the town celebrate the one thing he can't stand: nothing matters.
Carl builds a device to make himself mortal — just him, just once, so something in his life can finally count. He never aims it at anyone else.
The device fires — and the wave takes the whole town with it. Traffic, chainsaws, dynamite, parade stunts: every usual bit is suddenly for real, and nobody knows how to be careful.
Carl is the first to realize the world has turned mortal — TJ clocks it second, right behind him. Racing to save his sister, Sabrina, and TJ, Carl finds out the truth mid-disaster: he doesn't want to die. He wants his life to matter. Saving them becomes the first thing he's ever done that counts.
The Games — Game One · Beta Live Now
IRL is also a playable 3D video game — in beta now, with the full game coming soon. Carl's Reality Machine was built for one person: him. It never finished the job. It blew up halfway through, left the world stuck between cartoon and real, blasted its 3 core parts across Toona Falls into trap zones, and jammed its 3 parade switches where they stand. Your job: recover every part and rebuild the machine — before Toona Palooza turns deadly for real.
Beta test — this game is a work in progress. You may run into bugs, glitches, or unfinished features, and things may change or reset as we keep building it. Thanks for playing and for letting us know what you find.
Testing the games? After you've played, put your details in so you can be credited as a tester — and use the same form to report any bugs you ran into.
Carl salvaged one cracked shard from the wreck. It flips physics around him only — a small local bubble. It can't fix the town; for that he needs the whole machine back. In Cartoon, traps bounce off and you can scout safely — but the part cages stay locked. In Real, the cages open, and everything can kill you.
Every core part sits reality-locked in a trap zone, under a dangling anvil or piano. Bait the drop, step clear of the red ring, grab the part while the trap winches back up, and get out. In Real physics, one hit kills — and a runaway pie costs a heart. You have 3 hearts.
Switch characters mid-run: Carl — engineering, fixes panels and fires the machine. Sabrina — pranks, fireworks, and the biggest jumps. TJ — science, puzzle terminals, and scanning for what's left. Malaya — luck that works in both physics. Four Festival Seals around town each need a different one of them.
The glove gag is a tool now. Throw your glove-hand and steer it on its own — across the room, around the trap — to grab, bonk, and hit switches Carl can't reach. Then call it back before something real steps on it.
Status: Playable beta is live now — tap PLAY THE BETA above to play IRL 3D Toona Falls in your browser, phone or desktop. The full game is coming soon and still in development, and this page is where it lands first. The second game, the Carl Buddy Game, is right below.
The Games — Game Two · One Screen, One Carl
A single-screen buddy game starring Carl. Poke him, prank him, make him talk — and flip the physics yourself to see how he takes it in Cartoon versus Real. Same Carl, two very different sets of consequences.
Opens the buddy game in a new tab. Poke responsibly — in Real physics, Carl feels every bit of it.
Around Town
Everybody in Toona Falls runs the same old gags — the mailman, the road crew, the whole town. Each one has its own switch now. Flip it and the gag doesn't change. The landing does.
Main Street, noon: a grand piano lands square on the mailman. Spiral eyes, circling stars, keys for a grin — he's humming through it. He'll finish his route by one.
Outside the Hardware store: a whole bundle of dynamite goes off in the road-crew guy's hands. Soot face, frizzed hair, big grin. He asks if anybody got that on camera.
Kraken Entertainment
IRL is the first production from Kraken Entertainment — an independent studio being built from the ground up in New Mexico, with one rule from day one: stay loyal to the people who believed early. The pilot is in development now. There's no crowdfunding campaign yet — right now, support is simple: tips go straight toward getting the pilot made.
Every tip goes to the IRL pilot — animation, voices, and the unglamorous stuff in between. When a full crowdfunding campaign launches, it'll launch here first.
Talk to the Household
Pick who you're talking to — Carl, Sabrina, or TJ — and type, or tap a topic. They answer in character: Carl's heard it all before, Sabrina's already three shortcuts ahead of you, and TJ has quietly worked out the answer.
Replies are pre-written in character — tap a topic chip if you want the good stuff fast.
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