Prisnhax / October 24, 2024 by Allison James

Reviews

“A very polished game! The game was fun, even though I have no idea how the color combination works (solved level 10 through trial and error). Level names were hilarious!“ - TheSnidr
“The music is fitting and neutral and the colors are pretty.“ - Lolligirl
”This is a solid game, with well-designed puzzles, and sometimes I can’t believe this made in 72 hours.” - Hiznopellagio
”It's very slick and professional, with a cool intro, storyline about hackers, and neat sounds and music.” - chance
“This game had a great level of polish and a fitting soundtrack.” - TerraFriedSheep
”Everything is presented well, and the levels are clever and challenging.” - MC
”Really clever puzzle design, at least whenever the colors start to get involved.” - Lune
”Love the look and feel here.” - Mercerenies
”If you like puzzle games this is one you should try out. The quality of this game for being made in just 3 days is unreal.” - Lemon Flavor
”The presentation is great and the puzzles are very puzzly. Superb.” - GameRoom
”Good game, nice graphics, good music.” - Nallebeorn
”Really cool puzzle game with awesome graphics.” - Boysano
”I liked this a lot. It feels very professionally handled. Masterpiece ^_^” - Catox
”Very nice game, and the music is awesome!” - RekNepZ

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Vac-a-Doodle-Doo / March 2, 2024 by Allison James

Suck. Blow. Up you go.

Take your cleaning up to the literal next level with Vac-a-Doodle-Doo, the tower-ascending, brain-bending cleaner that runs out of charge quicker than those batteries I bought from that pound shop down the road.

Feather your suck, tap your blow, keep yourself charged, and don't falter over a chasm - you might fall three quarters of the entire game back down.

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System: Windows, HTML5
Price: Free
Music: Allison J James
Fonts: Helvetica

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Monoquous / June 2, 2023 by Allison James

Monoquous, a spin on my previous series Innoquous, is a puzzle platformer game in which you can phase through walls, floors and ceilings, turning the world to make them your new opposite-coloured floor.

Phase between worlds and manipulate gravity to get to the end of 30 devious levels.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Inova
Fonts: ITC Avant Garde

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Centery Gun / February 18, 2023 by Allison James

THERE IS A GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM

IT IS YOU

DESTROY THAT WHICH THREATENS YOU

Made as a throwback to my old late-2000s-era arcade games. Photosensitivity warning - it gets a bit flashy.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Northern Born - Tilt
Fonts: Clayton

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Courier 66 / January 18, 2023 by Allison James

You are Lisa Chesatti, an independent specialist courier specialising in deliveries across Historic US Route 66. Her latest delivery is marked, and goes all the way.

Set off from Venice Beach, California and drive all the way to Lake Michigan, Illinois, crossing state borders, passing through cities, meeting people, and keeping yourself happy, healthy and well.

Courier 66 is a laid back adventure combining elements of The Oregon Trail with text adventures and visual novels. It can also be auto-played.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Joel Steudler, JDB Artist
Fonts: Interstate, Brush Script, (others used for flavour)

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Revolver and Co / July 2, 2021 by Allison James

It's 2038, and a late maniacal inventor has left behind a legacy of madness - coordinates to an island full of wealthy robots, a gun that asks questions, and a widow that's hired you to answer them.

As Izzy Buspec, the newest recruit to Randco, take charge of their patented revolver as you explore the densely packed biomes of Corvynnia, bringing down hordes of docile robots in a money-making adventure. Every time you fire, you'll have to answer one of over 2,000 trivia questions with answers based on numbers, percentages, geography, dates, and more - the further you are from the actual answer, the more of its own ammunition the revolver will discharge. If you run out, it's back to Randco HQ to reload!

Revolver and Co features 105 story levels across 7 unique worlds and 12 question themes which will test you on a wide range of subjects, tied together with humorous debriefings between Izzy and her maniacal boss before the start of each mission.

Or if you're looking for more of a challenge, have a go at one of the Endless challenges, which pits you against a barrage of questions until you finally succumb to an empty revolver chamber. You can even unlock more Endless challenges by completing the story levels, including a gruelling hour-long session where the only thing you have to lose is time.

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System: Nintendo Switch, Windows
Price: £5.89
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Dan Johnston and Allison James

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“the most addictive pub quiz simulator I’ve ever played“ - Nintendo Link

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Pachog Day / April 18, 2021 by Allison James

Every sixty seconds, a clone of you spawns and repeats your actions transposed by a minute.

Collect Unbranded Original Flavour Capsules. Don't run into your past selves constantly repeating your past movements. And advance the level, but be aware - your past selves will still follow your route, so they'll be able to travel through walls that weren't there a minute ago!

Features online highscores courtesy of Dan Johnston (coded in the allotted time... for his own gm48 entry. And then I had to cry until he helped me steal his code.)

All other programming, all art and all music made by me.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Gill Sans, Gotham

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“I just know I'll have that trumpet(?) loop in my head for the rest of the evening :D” - havik
”Trust nobody, not even yourself.” - Veralos
”Amazing game , great work!” - adam02oc
”The gameplay is really solid, and the leaderboard will definitely have me coming back. Good stuff!” - Kilomatter
”I love the music, love the gameplay, really well made!” - ArmyArmbuster
”A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one :)” - Serbjy

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Rev%lver / April 21, 2019 by Allison James

It's high noon and your targets are all unarmed - but you're not! Only problem is, you've got a gun with an extremely weird quirk.

It asks you questions.

Rev%lver sees you move through quiet, serene deserts, destroying and stealing from docile robots while conserving as much of your ammunition as possible. Every time you pull the trigger, the gun needs a correct percentage level set - and the only way you can work it out is with each given question or statistic. The further away from the correct setting you are, the more ammo the gun discharges and wastes.

If you run out of ammo, scurry back and your captor will give you a refill... for a fee, of course.

Presented with small amounts of humour, Rev%lver has a 97% chance of being fun!

Created in 48 hours for GM48.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Dan Johnston and Allison James

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Reviews

“Super unique, and very entertaining.” - Baku
”Thanks for giving me a months worth of education” - Loates
”Good job, a bit of an out of the box idea that is nicely done, it was fun!” - havik
“Lmao“ - Kwisarts

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Ne Touchez Pas 5 / March 2, 2019 by Allison James

An extremely difficult game with one simple rule - do not touch.

In Ne Touchez Pas 5, you navigate 100 different levels with six different characters, all with unique control methods, attempting to reach the finish in one piece. Dodge deadly fans, evade eviscerating laser beams, and manoeuvre around moving segments, hit switches to open paths, collect optional bits and throw yourself through the void at the end of each level to progress.

Play as:

L'Oiseau, a french bird that flaps its little wings!
Jetpod, a tiny pilot with the lust for thrust!
Rockit, a rocket built for destruction but here to kick some walls!
Astro, an astronaut that doesn't know why they're here and is getting dizzy!
Car, with a full tank of petrol and a six digit milometer!
Square, just here to give people an easy mode!

Features 100 levels, 480 collectables, progress tracking, catchy music with a nostalgic easter egg for the four people that will remember the original Ne Touchez Pas games from the noughties, and a quit button for when you get stuck. You will probably get stuck.

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System: Windows
Price: £0.99
Music: Various
Fonts: Bebas Neue

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Reviews

“Hardcore puzzle with stylish minimalist graphics and hundreds of challenging levels.” - Gold Bear Games
”Navigate 100 levels in this very difficult, fast paced, simple action game.” - Mixer Games
”The game will require full attention and excellent response.” - Earth in the Porthole
”Good levels and obstacles.” - Games Without Borders

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Britskrieg / February 27, 2019 by Allison James

Queen Elizabeth II is bored of being stuck with the United Kingdom. She has recruited a unique foursome of watertight buddies - The Buddy Squad - to fix that for her. By taking over the world for Blighty.

Daniel Johnston is the Welsh-ish eco-warrior with a thirst for violence - renewable violence. Mark Alexander is the Spanish Scot whose number one priority is to look cool in victory. Allison James is English, scared of loud noises, but is happy to wage war if it means she ends up with a bigger home. And the Irishman Darrell Flood? He just wants to watch the world burn.

Command the Buddy Squad's four armies around a map of the world blitzing capital cities, weakening or recruiting enemies, building British towns everywhere they go, and keeping a steady flow of troops in their midst as they conquer every square.

Britskrieg mixes strategy with idle game, and a sprinkling of education - every sovereign state that's a member of the UN in its own right (thank you Richard Osman) is represented, as well as their capitals with rough locations and their 2018 populations. And there's also a little bit of patriotism. But only a little bit. Because British patriotism is British pessimism.

Contains no Brexit humour. Breathe a sigh of relief.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Allison James (Glue Gun)

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“Looks like a huge game that took a lot of work – impressive!“ - HayManMarc
”Good story, nice art, music is fitting” - Toque
”that was quite a large entry to complete, but it's perfectly possible to complete in a single day.” - Alice
”Brittain taking over the world... meh.” - Baukereg

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Gossamer Girls / August 17, 2018 by Allison James

Kill spiders. Collect gossamer. Trip balls.

Gossamer Girls sees you, the newest member of the eponymous all-female taskforce, exploring ancient dungeons, untouched by humanity for generations and overrun by clusters of spiders that produce valuable gossamer.

Dungeons are procedurally generated, containing ever increasing quantities of spiders with escalating threat, and connected by falling sections in which you descend through dangerous but rewarding neon tunnels. Start off with a randomly generated character and upgrade her through chests found on floors and powerups found in the falls between, all the while collecting as much gossamer as you can, using some as ammunition to defeat threats.

Also features a dynamic soundtrack that fades tracks in and out for each floor and fall, because I'm an idiot and decided that a time-constrained game jam was the first time to experiment with it.

Created for #LOWREZJAM 2018.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Allison James (Gossamer Girls, Queen of Clubs)

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Reviews

“Great little game that will keep you coming back.” - lazerfalcon
”Really awesome game.” - Jack Oatley
”The game plays really well and satisfying.” - sprvrn
”You have one of the best entries this year.” - br0ken_m1nd

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Maddening Euphoria / November 5, 2017 by Allison James

Ever feel like you're running around in circles?

Maddening Euphoria is a unique, challenging arcade game with randomly generated level design, in which you control brother and sister duet Mason and Millicent Zane as they flee from their own imagined realisation of their troubles in life - an inescapable wall of death - while avoiding bottomless pits, deadly spikes and speed-reducing pools of thick goo. Keep within spitting distance of the wall to receive a short, colourful Second Wind speed boost and gain the opportunity to be one eighth euphoric.

Not enough for you? Don your favourite fedora, go for eight pieces, and enter the multicoloured rainbow world of Euphoria where time goes even faster, spikes disappear and your survival speeds up dramatically. Or tackle some of the game's 150+ challenges ranging anywhere from trivially easy to borderline unfathomable.

Meanwhile, choose from 36 game themes (or throw it on Shuffle), each with themed poetry telling tales of your demise with anywhere from innocent whimsy to incomparable filth, and ranging from surprisingly clever to embarrassingly hideous. If you're English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, German, Spanish, Japanese, American, or from Bristol or Norwich like we are, I apologise profusely. Also have the game mock your failures in one of 51 ways of varying levels of Britishness. And all of this while other people's highscores pop up and you wonder what some people do with their time.

This is the flashiest, fleshiest Maddening to date. It even has some diamondy bits. And you can turn those off if you're only in it for the circles.

Just don't buy it if you suffer from epilepsy. (Please.)

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System: Windows, Nintendo Switch
Price: £0.99
Music: Various
Fonts: Allison James (Front Page Neue), Sickamore, Last Paradise

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“The concept of navigating through a never-ending ball-in-a-maze puzzle is such a unique concept that for just $1USD, it’s a no brainer to download onto your Switch just to experience what innovating level design can offer.“ - Switchaboo
“No brainer under a $1.” - Sysgen
”A solid leaderboard chaser. […] Everything is a little over the top, but I dig it.” - Scrumpy
”A unique test of focus and visual-spatial awareness.” - MrSterious

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Soundproof Cell / October 30, 2016 by Allison James

Live a life in the day of Em - their job, their interactions with their colleagues, a work party in the evening and the pain they feel.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Joel Steudler
Fonts: Allison James

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“This game feels like it's in a different league compared to most games in the jam.” - The M
“Great art, great presentation, just overall great.” - johnwo
”This is so deep and takes the "hero" theme to another level.” - McWolke
“This one gave me goosebumps.” - Lemth

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Four Versus The World / July 31, 2016 by Allison James

Turns out war changes.

In Four Versus The World, each adventure is unique. Travel from city to city with "The Four", the sole survivors of one of many possible catastrophes that took place shortly before the game's events.

Hunt for food, energy, health packs, skill points and car parts to keep yourselves, and your beloved vehicle, on the road.

Search scenery and dungeons and do your best not to die in the face of continuous, sometimes arbitrary dilemmas - each character only has one life; once they're dead, they're dead forever.

Make it to the final destination, the glorious British city of... well, it's different every time, just like everything else.

It's all tongue in cheek and profoundly British. Made in 72 hours for the July 2016 GMC Jam.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Doctor Vox, Nameless Warning
Fonts: Impact

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Reviews

“Awesome. Polished. Lots of content. Perfect.” - Tselmek
“Fun game! Liked the graphics style.” - Coder Joe
”I love the concept of this game and it was super fascinating.” - Misu

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Super Dynapogo / December 10, 2015 by Allison James

Explosive pogo a-gogo!

The city of Dynaster is in ruins - an erupted volcano has flooded it with lava, and as a result, an evil government corporation has bought the land to level it into a hellish lava-moat-surrounded fortress.

But it's okay. You have a pogo stick. Not just any pogo stick, either: it's a Dynapogo! It has a stick of dynamite attached that remains intact when it explodes, allowing for infinite reuse. It explodes on contact with anything, so make sure you're pointed the way you want to go when you land!

Get as far as you can by exploding your way across the doomed Dynaster cityscape's rooftops. Watch as the final helpless and stranded Dynasterians are torn apart by the government's leveller, making sure you aren't killed by itself. And for the love of god, avoid the lava!

"I played the original Dynapogo. What's new?!"

Good question! This is an upgrade, not a sequel, so the core gameplay is the same. But Super Dynapogo has these upgrades on Dynapogo:

+ Game runs at 1080p and is fullscreen now - clearer graphics and no accidental clicking off-screen!
+ Game contains proper HUD elements - original was for a game jam with "no in-game text" as a restriction, so that's now rectified
+ HUD graphics have been polished
+ Everything's got a shadow now, because shadows are for cool people
+ Several new building types added, and tile variety added to new and previous buildings
+ Changed music

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Vidya Vidya
Fonts: Hansom FY, Allison James (Gnome Splinters, Notalot35)

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Maddening Relapse 2 / November 5, 2015 by Allison James

With Mason Zane killed in a mysterious chain of events, his perception of the world in his alter ego Madd Mann seemed doomed to die. That is, until Daryl Schuhorne, a woman with an equally bizarre obsession for doing absolutely everything in a business suit with a vivid red tie, came along.

Run around in circles. Don't get killed by the wall, which is back in full force. Avoid having a spike introduce new holes into your ecosystem. You see that hole over there? Yeah, don't fall down it. And now, making their return from their appearance in 2010's Maddening, bounce off trampolines and try your best not to get slowed down in vats of thick goo!

Further improvements from Relapse 1 include the game running in native 1080p, tons of polish to everything, improved level generation bringing more variety to the table, and a new soundtrack by Meizong.

If you have a GameJolt account, Maddening Relapse 2 also contains 93 GameJolt achievements and global leaderboards. Sign in to receive them!

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Meizong
Fonts: Allison James

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“One for the arcadey types. Yeah, you. You with the twitch.” - Rock Paper Shotgun
”Well suited music, a slick art style all combined to make one hell of a mind boggling almost puzzle-like platforming game.” - ZenoGames
”Did you make this game trippy on purpose?” - flyingdog125

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Innoquous 5 / August 27, 2015 by Allison James

Innoquous 5, the fifth in the game series that began with 2008's Innoquous, is a huge puzzle platformer... with a twist! Hit a gravity arrow or jump into a flipper and you can rotate gravity, opening new paths through each of the huge collection of levels!

Make your way through 175 levels (100 brand-spanking new to the game, 75 from Innoquous 4) riddled with alternative paths and shortcuts, encountering tens of obstacles, unique puzzles and a need to invent some bizarre strategies to finish them!

All 175 levels are playable in six game modes, for hundreds of hours of content:

Standard: Get to the exit. That's it.
Bunny Hunt: Find the hidden bunny trapped in a crate somewhere off the beaten track.
Conditional: Obey a certain restriction in finishing the level that will force you to undertake new routes.
Time Limit: Get to the exit as fast as you can to obtain a gold, silver or bronze medal.
Fiery Floors: Complete the level with added flooring and obstacles to make your life difficult.
Chaser: Complete the level while a deadly clone of you is always one second behind you.

On top of that, there are multiple groupings of the levels in both Speedrun and the new Permadeath mode, in which you either see how quickly you can complete the entire grouping, or see how many you can complete before you die.

Find the secret note in each of the new 100 levels. They're never clear - some will even require you to perish to obtain them!

Each one will unlock a line of a poem explaining how you found yourself in this bizarre world, who sent you here, and what happens next!

If you run out of levels, the game also comes with a full-featured level creator! Give your level a name, a creator, a description, and begin drawing! Place every obstacle found in the main game, give it a gold, silve and bronze time limit, a conditional objective, place the bunny somewhere, and generally do pretty much everything found in the main game!

You can then enter the Created Levels menu, where the game will display you all of your custom levels along with tracking completion, just as it does regular levels. Feel free to share your levels with others and build up a collection! (You can find your levels in %localappdata%\Innoquous_5 on Windows.)

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System: Windows
Price: £0.99
Music: See in-game
Fonts: Gotham etc

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“This game takes me back to good old YoyoGames Sandbox days.” - Mors
”You can tell that the creators knew what they were doing and actually cared about making a game that didn't feel cheap.” - possessedCow
”I bought this on a whim, and I'm glad I did!” - sheab17
”Innoquous has clean visuals and many options available you won't find in similar games.” - h.barkas

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1 Girl 2 Cups / July 19, 2015 by Allison James

Wakka wakka, motherlovers.

You're an innocent, dual-uzi-wielding bikini-clad girl trapped in a Japanese burial ground, and the inhabitants aren't having any of it.

Dash around, collecting ammunition for your uzis. Find new and exotic weapons: like the Katana that is made out of purest grade aluminium maybe! Or the flamethrower that is secretly powered by love! Or maybe you're more into the inner workings of the chainsaw, since you're a bit of a carpentry fanatic... or are delusional and think that all the enemies are trees.

Upload your highscore to GameJolt, and have the leaderboard and the flashing display of the global best score permanently remind you how much worse you are than everybody else! And earn GJ trophies if you're into that sort of thing, you filthmongerer.

1 Girl. 2 Cups. 3 of something.

Hm.

1 Girl 2 Cups came 9th in GMC Jam #19.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: DaPlaque - Ultimate
Fonts: Joystix, Pac-Font

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Reviews

“One of the gems in the jam, well done.” - Ghandpivot
”Fun with a variety of weapons and enemies.” - The M
”The weapon choices were really interesting, and the announcement voices were wonderfully done.” - Mercerenies
”Wow this game is really good” - Monstr Gaming
”The game is pretty cool. I mean: who wouldn't want to be a blond chick in a maze blasting enemies?” - rui.rosario
”Interesting and fun to play. I like it.” - Dan Johnston
”10/10 in my book” - Diptoman
”The colour palette fits the retro feeling this game gives, perfected with appropriate music.” - Hiznopellagio

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Bullet Hills / January 26, 2015 by Allison James

Dance Dance Revolution meets touch typing tutor in Bullet Hills - the game where you have to type to the beat! Features three tracks and around 10 different typing levels, from just the letter X to the full alphabet and even full words to the music.

Made in GameMaker: Studio in 72 hours for GMC Jam #17. Bullet Hills came fifth.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Approaching Nirvana, Savant, High Scarlet
Fonts: Eurostile

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Reviews

“Graphically impressive, good choice in music and generally feels like it has a high level of polish.” - Dan Johnston
”Very stylish but also very hard. Different modes was a nice inclusion!” - The M
”The background looks very cool. Never before has typing felt so awesome.” - Videohead
”I say we have a rival for guitar hero! :D A great game.” - aamatniekss
”Great idea to combine a rhythm game with a typing game!” - Spydog
”It's very well polished and looks very nice” - Mercerenies
”Pro look & feel across the board. Cool tunes too.” - dadio

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Titan Tighten / October 26, 2014 by Allison James

Play as a massive titan stomping on cities and terrifying citi... oh no wait, you just broke down.

Control a stream of tiny Tighten robots navigating the Titan's body from its head to its feet, fixing up all its loose screws so it can go back to causing carnage - all the while, avoiding hazards and pitfalls.

Created in 48 hours for GMC Jam #16. Titan Tighten won.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: High Scarlet
Fonts: OCR A

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