I Hacked Squirrel Stapler To Discover Its Strangest Secrets 

Come hang out with us on Discord: discord.gg/s4en6wAcC9 Spent a couple weeks turning Squirrel Stapler inside-out to have this ready just in time for Halloween. Enjoy!

After seeing the texture used for "God", it's pretty apparent that his texture and shape is two squirrel heads mirrored into each other much like the "Committing Sins" splash screen. Perhaps that image is supposed to convey that God is watching

THe Jumpscare not working really fits the Indie Horror Game Vibe

I was a playtester for the game before the rerelease. What happened was that when all 5 geocaches were unlocked, it was storing the fact that GIANT SQUIRRELS MODE was unlocked in the save file. Problem with that is that when the save file resets (which it does every time you beat the game), you lose GIANT SQUIRRELS MODE.

There's a jumpscare in the game where your wife will sprint up at you out of nowhere and stop right next to you. Maybe that's why it's called enemy?

I think the story about a painter and a witch is actually in the game and you can read parts of it every day, as seen in Jolly Wangcore's playthrough

Looking at god's texture, it seems like a pair of ram horns, a fox's mouth, and two eyes slapped on top of two mirrored squirrels and some random gore.

This game feels like it's based on a weird dream its creator had at some point

Ephi looks like I’d find him under my floorboards.

The emoji sheet is really weird. I am pretty sure it's for some reason included by unity itself since I also found it in the demo for Peripeteia

David's games are some of the games of all time.

My guess is the enemy character used as your “wife” were possibly going to be enemies in the world instead of squirrels?

6:24 there's two squirrels, goat horns, what looks like a housecat's mouth (but could easily be something else), either organs or skeletal structures at the top? All around, very disturbing.

Love love LOVE these kinds of deep dives into games to see all the lil hidden goodies that are tucked away. There's one game called Tunic that is completely built around being filled to the brim with secrets--seeing an extensive deep dive into that game would be fascinating, although going in blind would be the best way to initially experience it.

There is a legend of a hunter who holds a rifle in his hands while psychically controlling five others with his powerful mind.

i had a random enemy attack once that the dev said had a small chance of occurring once i asked steam forums about it. the character model of the wife can appear in the woods and attack you. scared the absolute sh!t out of me

That emoji sheet actually comes from the text mesh pro asset as a default font texture, as funny as it is that it’s still there I don’t know that it was there intentionally

6:25 looks like an image of a squirrel sideways mirrored so that it's two squirrels looking at eachother then it has a squirrel mouth with sharper canines slapped on top of it to make the mouth and a couple of ram horns for good measure

God appears to be two squirrel heads facing each other, the mouth of a bit cat, ram horns, falcon eyes, and some miscellaneous gore.

The emoji texture comes packed with TextMeshPro, it's the default texture when using the tag on any TextMeshPro component, it is probably replaced by an actual icon atlas to be used with text on some tmp component

"God" is a squirrel jpg mirrored

I think you should try to decompile one of the Room games, specifically Old Sins, I tried to deconstruct the game but I couldn’t find anything and the game must pull a lot of cool tricks. Overall the game is a very fun play and I think it would be very interesting to see the game decompiled.

I feel like Ephi is flirting with me when looking into the camera

You did this with Iron Lung and you cured my fears for that game, thanks. Now you’re doing the same for Squirrel Stapler.

when recording pixelated games you have to turn compression off or the video recording software will try to compress and fix the pixels. making it blurry and cursed.

the emoji is a default asset library for unity, i also asked the same thing when i was doing QA and freacking around on the games asset for Kaze, and the devs told me it was just something that unity comes with when you are on the mobile branch if am not wrong.

I dig this, I love the breaking and entering into a game like this, also he moves around and talks with a specific cadence I find interesting, not in a bad way wanna be clear

God looks to be multiple pictures and parts of squirrels put together (an upscaled squirrel mouth and eyes, two squirrels/a mirrored picture of a squirrel for the general face, squirrels in the "background" of the face). The only non-squirrel stuff appears to be the horns, but even then they might be distorted squirrel tails.

I'm glad you did this one, my friend.

Protagonist:’Gee, it sure is nice stapling squirrels’ God:’HI SQUIDWARD’

very cool video, I love exploring out of bounds and digging through game's files offtop this guy emanates Lorraine McFly from Back to the future energy

6:25 this answers some questions actually, it is supposed to be a squirrel with horns, his face are 2 mirrored squirrel jpgs

The 2 logs in a bucket are not logs, its another type of log

Great vid. Really liking this long form video format :D

now I kinda wonder if there was a bigger scope to this game initially really hope DuskDev comments on this one Squirrel Stapler is honestly one of my favorites it's so much vagueness in such a short time it's so effective

The deeper dive we all knew we needed deeper down

ok so what ive learnt is that the game is vastly improved by giving you 30 rifles and 30 pairs of arms to hold said rifles

the squirrel god's texture appears to be two squirrel heads placed nose to nose with a fused mouth pretty weird

God is just two squirrels kissing

the texture for "god" is from what i can see 2 squirrels mirrored to one another with non mirrored goat horns in each side, the squirrels abear to either have fish eyeballs and at the bottom we have what apears to either be the mouth of a bat or another mamel creature i do not know about, also the thing on the back i could not recognize but if i had to guess its either another random animal png found on google or a painting dont ask why i think of a painting, it just feels like it

God is just 2 squirrels kissing.

My guess on the video recording for the original: it seems the textures are pretty much identical, it was probably just a configuration setting for your encoder. Noisy textures, especially ones with a lot of saturation, tend to require a lot of bitrate. When I record things like this, I usually use x264 with CRF rate control. This allows the bitrate to fluctuate to maintain a decent quality. But the reason I mentioned saturation: Tarkov is a great example. It's a very grassy and noisy game most times. If you use post fx with boosted saturation, it tends to require 2-3x the bitrate. So it's kind of a double edged sword. If you use CRF with a number like 20 or 18, it will give it plenty of bitrate to look good, but if it's a noisy and saturated image, You could probably see the bitrate skyrocket to 30-80+ Mbps.

So much power and you use it to mod in crash bandicoot…. A man after my own heart 💞💖💞

Great video as always! I always wondered about some of these.

I found out that God‘s heart shaped head is two squirrels

the texture for god looks super funny now that i get a good look at it. it looks like it's two mirrored squirrels with maybe a possum mouth slapped in the middle and some random horns on the sides.

2 squirrel heads, with goat horns and a cat mouth is all I can decipher from the squirrel god image.

6:24 It appears to be 2 mirrored squirrels as the head, some sort of feline-like creature’s mouth, bulging eyes, goat/ram horns, and a brain at the top

God is 2 squirrel facing each other with a weird mouth added to it to make it look like it's facing forward the screen and them some distortion, you can see the squirrel eyes and ears, the maw just merges in to the mouth.

When you showed god's face texture i think the things surrounding its eyes are actually squirrels! I think the eyes are in the middle of the head of the squirrels.

Love these videos! I’m glad I discovered your channel, new sub!

just now realized the god is one side of a squirrel head with mirror, edited eyes and mouth, added horns and some god knows what image in he background

I refuse to accept pikachu as a squirrel. He looks and even behaves exactly like my Chinchilla and that's what he will always be.

The God texture is two squirrel heads mirrored, you can see their lil ears on the left and right during this 6:25 little segment!

the body of the wife does appear in the map outside the house at some point as if its chasing you

I remember that jumpscare from when I was a kid. It would randomly pop up in my feed

“God is coming” is so much scarier than what actually happens

i love the way this guy delivers his lil jokes, this is enjoyable video

6:26 That texture looks like a squirrel with a fish-eye and a horn that's been duplicated and mirrored vertically to make the face, added a texture background and slapped the mouth of one of the crying cat memes as garnish.

One time I went walking and I saw a squirrel flee when I walked past however there was another squirrel like, chirping I guess you'd call it. I think it was like warning nearby squirrels that a human was close. Anyways I stare at it for like 15 seconds and it just keeps chirping in a rhythm, so I look down to get my phone and maybe take a photo of the little bugger and in that split second the chirping stops and I look up and he's gone. Tl;dr Does squirrel is god?

6:27 Some cat meowing, two squirrels, fish eyes, and horns of a ram or a sheep idfk

What in the code determines your score at the end? I've seen multiple playthroughs of it and the top right says one thing, but the "You Win" screen is always lower by different amounts

to me god felt like it was meant to be kind of approximating the idea of how an angler fish looks, like it was luring the hunter to i guess kill his wife? but it was actually evil idk it just seemed like it was meant to imply that the hunter was being tricked somehow

this game absolutely obliterates RU-vid's compression algorithm. artifacts like crazy lol

According to the wiki, God is supposed to be some kind of horribly mutilated squirrel with horns and an exposed brain. If you look at the texture, you can actually see the shape of two squirrel heads, the same squirrel used in the main menu.

6:25 I had this feel that the God Image is 2 Squirrel looking at each other. Add 2 bloodshot eyes Horns And a Cat crying meme mouth

I think God's texture is an edit of a squirrel photo mirrored down the middle with goat horns pasted upside down, a cat's mouth, and random eyes slapped onto it

I weirdly remember a different version of the woman story(unless there's another story that wasn't mentioned since it's not as important) from the original game were some guy fell in love with some woman that's hair was used for a hair brush were he tried to make a copy or something of her which didn't end well as the brush had boar hair in it This is an interesting video & it's been a while since I saw Squirrel Stapler

i thought the vid was only 9 minutes long when i finished lmao thats how entertained i was

YESSSS IVE BEEN HOPING FOR SMTH LIKE THIS

i like that both god and the fish in iron lung are two face textures mirrored and put together to make a new face. I think the fish from iron lung is an image of a deep sea Viperfish, mirrored and with an added mouth.

the texture for GOD is just two squirrels kissing with a big ape mouth slapped over their mouths, plus goat horns on the side and random stuff behind them

5:17 FRAMPT, MY MAN!!

i remeber a ton of these assets from my personal favorite game made by david dusk like the rifle seems to be a retextured hunting rifle from dusk and the weather code could of came from dusk as well sense some stages it rains them stops half way through the level

you get bonus games in the dusk files too (not sure about other games like iron lung as i don't have them)

Yeah alright this channel is fire, subbed

Did you use OBS to record it? The same thing happened to me. I always use GeForce Experience to record 3D games as it doesn't look compressed and you can record it at 60 fps.

6:25 The intro squirrel photo mirrored with a mouth placed between them and the end of ram horns attached to the necks. The background between the horns appears to be an image of worms? So a flayed tree-rat carcass with a mouth.

everyone talking abt the emojis and god but that "jumpscare" in the joke game does actually scares me, like i cant look at it, i feel stupid

God texture looks kinda like two squirrels facing each other with horns where their tails would be

Those emojis in the files are just default unity assets as when exploring Muse Dash entirely separate game that was in the default shared assets folder that was packed in with the game and the same went for every other unity game I've tried to unpack so it's highly likely that those emojis weren't ever planned to be used and it's just something left over by unity compiling

Honestly seeing the full texture for the god character really helped me in understanding what it was supposed to look like; two squirrels combined into one face with strange eyes and a mouth that definitely doesn’t belong to a squirrel

Amazing work 🎉🎉

I think David also worked on Gloomwood, so the mantle code might come from that game

Ive been waiting for a video like this

4:35 Pause right here. The Game's Map looks like a Imperial Class Destroyer from Star Wars.

I'm such a bitch, that silly demon face from the meme game bothers me for real- lol.

Hey i think the emojis are default unity assest adding the fact there not compressed in texture quality

god's image has two squirrels facing the same direction intersecting where the mouth is, so it is a squirrel

The god is literally two squirrels nose to nose with the screaming white cat meme’s mouth.

Imagine if market fliers decided to make a movie about this instead of iron lung

Well, if you look more closely at this "God" thing, you'll see that it is actually made of a side view of a sitting squirrel mirrored relative to a verticle plane with glowing eyes and cat mouth (or snake mouth?) imposed ontop of it.

hey, awesome video!! I was wondering where you got the sweater you are wearing in the video, I like it a lot

You know what must be done next, there’s still one BIG Szymanski game left to cover… chop goblins.

Eyyy another video about a David Szymanski game. Aka the Ironlung Guy

Ok what i can see from the textures there are two squirrel heads fish eyes a cats mouth and goat horns

The god is 2 squirrels on the sides a cat mouth and goat horns

Loooks like 2 squirrels looking at each other but demonic

Now it's only fitting that you do DUSK next

The update to this game. Brought the double squirrel!