Later on you'll also find some jet-propelling boots which you can use to boost across greater distances. You trail your uncle through these environments using a fantastical suit that features a magical grappling hook and shock absorbers which stop you hurting yourself on landing. The actual game is a first-person platformer set in a world of floating rocks. The story begins as the child version of the narrator enters the garbage disposal dimension rift thingummy to go looking for him.
A blackboard in his abandoned house reveals that he has built some kind of waste disposal system possibly powered by starlight. Said uncle is a brilliant scientist - a whimsical and even-tempered version of Uncle Quentin from the Famous Five books. A Story About My Uncle is actually a story about the narrator's uncle told as a bedtime story to a small child.
