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'1... 2... 3... KICK IT! (Drop That Beat Like an Ugly Baby) (shortened to Ugly Baby') is a simulation/rhythm game in development by Dejobaan Games for Microsoft Windows, as part of the Steam Early Access program. Set ten years after the events of A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, stages once more take the form of vertical cities the player navigates in a stylized BASE jump. Rhythm game elements have been integrated, as each city is played alongside a music track which influences level construction, pace, length, and visual effects.

Gameplay
Ugly Baby is a First Person Perspective game where players navigate a partly procedurally generated course, called a 'City', to amass points.

Each city begins first by importing a music track which will determine the stage length and influences level construction. The stage will then begin with the player already in free fall above a floating city, which they then navigate for points. Flying near, or 'Grooving', a structure gradually increases a score multiplier and provides a steady, if weak, stream of points. The first time you approach, or 'Buzz', a new structure, a lump sum of points is awarded. Players are also rewarded for navigating through small gaps with a larger lump sum of points. Collisions with structures temporarily locks the score multiplier at zero, preventing the player from accumulating any points for a short period.

Players navigate the level by aiming their jumper with mouse movement and rotating the jumper by keyboard presses.

As the game is still in development, mechanics are still subject to change.

Story
As introduced in A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, humanity has built cities in the skies after "polystructures" entered the atmosphere and remained floating in the sky. The outlawed practice of BASE jumping hasn't been seen for a decade when Azumi Pentak, an aggressive and opinionated young singer/songwriter, begins to broadcast her illegal BASE jumps.

Socially, governments are increasingly authoritarian, and living on the surface of the Earth is reserved for "the literal lower class," with surface cities suffering literal trash storms as the sky cities dump their waste. In the sciences, the uplifting of a few assorted species has occurred, and 3D printing is casually used. Augmented reality, artificial intelligences, and the technological singularity are hot button issues for Azumi, and as such are featured in her songs and in pre- and post- jump comments.

As in A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, Azumi seems partly motivated to BASE jump in protest.

Customization
Cities are saved as .py files and can be edited to create new stages. Developer mode is unlocked by entering the password ichiro! at the title screen.

Development
Originally released on April 1 2011 in alpha using a proprietary engine, on December 19 2012 Ugly Baby was re-released having been rewritten from scratch using Unity and Python to enable modding, though still in alpha.

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An early prototype of the game was released to members of Dejobaan's mailing list under the name TAPtapTAPtapTAPtapTAP (Paralyzed by Bad Fugu Nigiri).

Dejobaan's Easiest Video Game Ever
Included in the game is a hidden link for a free download of Dejobaan's Easiest Video Game Ever, a modded version of A Reckless Disregard for Gravity containing a single level, with the added ability to destroy select structures.