Arcade
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.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Northern Born - Tilt
Fonts: Clayton
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Spell the names of fish while casting your rod to make impressive catches, and learn entirely accurate statistics and fun facts about a funny number of your favourite swimmers. Now that's magical.
Game created in the 48 hour period; all the art was generated using OpenAI DALL-E. That's why it looks so doofy. Also ate away like 40 of my credits. I was saving those for making funnies. Grr.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Allison James (CQ Mono & Earthshattering); John Hudson (Gabriola)
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Catapult your way up a hectic, grinder-filled tower of slings in "Sling for the Level", a procedurally-generated fast-paced arcade game.
Tap/click and hold (anywhere) to start pulling the current sling, move your finger/mouse back to aim your shot and decide its power, and let go to ping yourself at high velocity towards the next sling.
Navigate sling wheels, bumpers and escalators in your way to the top - but don't fall or take too long, as an ever-ascending inescapable grinder is ready to chomp you up!
Play the GX.games version on Opera GX for online highscores!
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Allison James
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Quickfire anagrams against the clock in five good-time categories:
Herbs, Spices, Condiments
Fish and Co
Countries & Dependencies
Yearly Events & Holidays
Crimes
You have one minute to unjumble as many items in the category as you can. Completing one gets you a second back for each letter, but if time runs out on it, you'll waste time seeing the actual answer!
System: HTML5, Windows
Price: Free
Music: Joel Steudler
Fonts: Tempo Std
Quickfire anagrams against the clock in five catchy categories:
Pokémon Names
Bugs & Insects
Illnesses & Conditions
Modes of Transport
US Sports Teams
(Bonus) Pokémon Names - Generation 1 Only
You have one minute to unjumble as many items in the category as you can. Completing one gets you a second back for each letter, but if time runs out on it, you'll waste time seeing the actual answer!
System: HTML5, Windows
Price: Free
Music: Joel Steudler
Fonts: Tempo Std
By day, Carto City is a peaceful metropolis - parks, shops, everything you could need. But by night, robots roam, and they're more than happy to destroy anything squishy enough to pose a threat.
Chainwhack enemy robots to destroy them, build turrets to aid in fending them off, and chainwhack those to defend and repair them.
Establish a hospital for healing, a DIY shop to chainwhack harder and keep your turrets maintained, and more.
Most importantly, survive the night - the robots will succumb to sunlight at 6am sharp and you can use the wealth they drop to buy more turrets and upgrades!
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Inova
Fonts: Allison James
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A giant beefy boy with cannons for armpits puts on a show.
Delicately clasp your mouse and push it around to watch that hunky goliath sway as his high-calibre appendages shoot uncontrollably to the hip hop beat.
Fend off wave after wave of awry fireworks and mildly irate tank drivers and take us all to the gun show.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Allison James
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YES I KNOW BANANAS DON'T GROW ON PALM TREES OKAY
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Allison James
“This is just so fun to play. The music really gets you in a groove.” - baku
“Simple and fun gameplay, well polished, I like the music and overall style too.” - Fajpaj
”Music + music effects as usual is amazing.” - Kyon
”I adore the vibe of this game!” - illdie
”Awesome job.” - Ivanbje
”It feels like a Hotline Miami set in japan.” - Mimpy
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.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Gill Sans, Gotham
“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
Torusnake, made for 10^2 #3, is Snake but loopy. Loop around the map in both directions and collect as many apples as you can without hitting your own body.
100 points per apple collected.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Allison James (Japers)
“torusnake is really interesting” - katsaii
”I lined the snake up so I could just leave it running and the game would play itself, and after like an hour or something my snake took up the entire screen and finally touched itself” - baku
SORRY FOR KILL.
QUICKLY! BIGSORRY. GIFT RECEIVE?
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Bebas Neue
“edgy” - your mum
MAKE ENEMIES FALL APART
CONSUME DELICIOUSBONES
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Bebas Neue
“Looking at my monitor now makes it look like it's constantly rotating. I regret nothing.” - baku
”Very creative idea, polished graphics, and fantastic music.” - Ethan Wake
”Very stylish and creative.” - Jackaroo
”Mooom, Allison James made me dizzy!” - Brian LaClair
“Oh no, bit of motion sickness :s” - Tero Hannula
The year is 2020. Out of nowhere, Earth splits into two, spouts a body and legs, and gains sentience. We've been entered into the Planetary Destruction Tournament, an 8-planet tournament where only the winner gets to survive un-obliterated.
Earth is Death On Two Legs. Prove it.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Helvetica, Lost Paradise
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13 years after the great Supermoves war of 2007, the invaders are back - bigger, badder, and brillianter. Defend both sides at once with a pair of building-mounted guns that can take down even the strongest foes and keep yourself alive as long as possible.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Future Now, Last Paradise
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A bee collects pollen in sync with hip-hop music. You know how it is.
Find your way back to the queen through a grimy series of tunnels while hip hop surrounds you. Includes hot karaoke action, a buzzing soundtrack, and a Turbo mode alongside Standard.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Tw Cen MT, The Macabre, Comic Sans MS
“Can confirm this game made my life better!” - Eric
”My life IS better after playing this game. Thank you.” - Hannah Farrugia
”You were right, my life certainly was much much better after playing this game!” - Army Armbuster
“I feel like you've made this game to show off your mix tape and I'm not even mad about it!” - Tydecon Games
”The graphics were great and it was very immersive and fun.” - Chris
”The game is hilarious, great work!” - JCx64
”This was WILD!!!” - Renusek
”that Keanu Reeves line was breathtaking” - nyx
”This game is cute and it puts a smile on your face :)” - Naxos
”I would critique the title, but the entire game feels like a meme anyway, so it totally fits.” - Merlo
Swing your way up a series of pegs in an atmospheric neon tower, avoiding falling to your fate in the process, in Sympathy for the Level, an immersive, intuitive and addictive game and experience.
Made for GM48 #32.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Allison James
“Everything felt super snappy and polished, and the music was a banger.” - Problematicar
”Looked really polished and music was good” - Tero Hannula
”Great game!” - MondayHopscotch
”One of the most fun games I've ever played in gm48.” - Roalinn
”It good. Except for this part here: [picture of the game having broken]” - Fachewachewa
Avoid wave after wave of thousands of tiny mines being wrought upon you by Death as you jingle your way around the Maypole as Morris.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Allison James
“The music is fun, the theme interpretation a bit loopy ;)” - qst0
“The music is VERY catchy and actually quite soothing, especially those soft bass pulses :D” - WangleLine
”That was funny and a nice interpretation of the theme. Catchy music and nice gameplay... but can I please get my eyes back? xD” - Gojirana
”the punny title is genius” - Eva
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.
System: Windows
Price: £0.99
Music: Various
Fonts: Bebas Neue
“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
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.)
System: Windows, Nintendo Switch
Price: £0.99
Music: Various
Fonts: Allison James (Front Page Neue), Sickamore, Last Paradise
“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
Every year since the dawn of time, assuming the dawn of time occurred in October 2007, Fantastic Kinetic Reflexes has reared its head and jumped into the world. Each instalment brings negligible improvements and sometimes even stupid graphical "enhancements".
And just because NAL Is Dead doesn't mean it's not happening again.
FKR10 sees you progress through time and each yearly instalment of the FKR virus, raiding computers as antivirus programs attempt to take you down.
The mouse moves the FKR virus. Attached to it, and continuously orbiting it, are a number of trojan horses - swing these into the defending antivirus programs to defeat them.
But don't be datablasted too much, or you'll be erased from the computer quicker than your browsing history when you think someone might gain access to it.
Features music by Inaki/Futch & Slore, used under a CC-BY 3.0 license courtesy of Argofox Creative Commons.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Inaki/Futch & Slore
Fonts: Various
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