Ne Touchez Pas 5

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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Maddening Euphoria

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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Reviews

“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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Orbit Frenzy

You meet a race of aliens that are the friendliest in the world. They exist to love. There is no war.

One problem. They create Special Custard, a substance which to them is just a nutrient food. But to humanity, it grants extended life and is rich in minerals unseen on Earth.

You are Reginald Waft, a savvy British hipster businessman who's left it all - cheeky fried chicken with the lads, banter for days and even the occasional episode of your nearest soap opera with your mum - to ransack the planet. You might even take the concept of their planet and sell it to some British TV channel as a children's programme.

Go with your array of missiles that grapple onto things to steer, and also somehow collect the abundant Special Custard. Missile those cutesy swines before they sing you a song about learning things. And then get back to the lads back in Britain, drop a couple beers, re-curl your moustache and smash up the local gym.

Orbit Frenzy is the clean version of Telifrenzy, Allison James' (and by proxy, Chequered Ink's) entry into Ludum Dare 33.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: None
Fonts: Buzzsaw AOE

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Reviews

“What a surreal and odd game. My cup of tea. Loved it!” - SinclairStrange
”Many stars to you!!! This is glorious! Great job!!!!” - Ninja Garage
”May be bit hard for non British people to grasp the humour, nevertheless excellent entry !” - sydream
”That was certainly... a unique experience.” - Sunflower

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Prisnhax

You're a black hat hacker who has discovered the fun in hacking open jail cells. Hack your way into 30 jail cells and unleash the criminal monsters within!

This was an entry into GMC Jam #11, where it placed 16th.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Pida, Raam, Billy Green
Fonts: Allison James (Vermin Vibes 2 Soft)

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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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Innoquous 4

The fourth in the series of gravity-flipping platformer games, Innoquous 4 is over four times the size of its predecessor! 75 levels with five distinct game modes adding challenging twists to already challenging levels, not including the added Speedrun mode – complete the entire game as quickly as you can!

Also includes stat tracking, options, and help.

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Rolemusic
Fonts: 4th and Inches, Georgia

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Reviews

“This game is perfect” - taha_sbt
”This game is Cool! Not to mention, a bit Awesome!” - Ace-Pointer

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Maddening

Enter the realms of MADNESS, take yourself over and beyond the EDGE of sanity, feel the intense panic of the ever threatening WALL.
Maddening is a new and revolutionary game, which takes you through 50 levels over 5 difficulty settings levels of highly Addictive, fun filled gameplay. Escape the ever chasing WALL, through goo, past spikes and off bouncy things. Each game will take you deeper into the depths of Lunacy.

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System: Windows, iOS, Android
Price: Free (Windows), £0.99 (Mobile)
Music: Provoco
Fonts: Will Robinson, Baveuse

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Reviews

“An interesting minimalist platformer to keep you busy for a little while.” -AppSpy

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Ne Touchez Pas 4

Ne Touchez Pas IV, my entry into YoYo Games Competition 05 (no, I'm not particularly in it to win it, I just like entering this stuff ) is a game which builds off NTP3 in the pursuit of improvement.

All of the levels are the same, probably not a massively popular decision, but I'm trying to bring in improvements in other areas to make up for that.

For those unfamiliar with NTP, it is a game which compiles many variants of don't-touch-the-walls games (including two from my past - Rockit and NAL's Jet Pod).

There are 50 levels, playable with six separate characters:

Bird will be familiar to anyone that's played Messhof's Flywrench or any of the previous NTP games. New to NTP4, Bird has an autoflap button as well as a manual flap. Left/Right make the bird strafe, Z is for manual flap and Up for autoflap. Down can be used for the level start if you want to start with a freefall, not an upwards movement.
Jetpod is the only character unaltered from NTP3. It's basically a slower, easier version of the bird with smooth upward thrusting and strafing.
Missile is a redesigned version of NTP3's "Rockit". Since mouse controls are disallowed from Competition 05 entries I had to alter the controls. The D-pad now makes the missile hurtle in whichever direction is pressed. It's at one set speed and is unaffected by gravity.
Spaceman has been changed from NTP3 significantly. He's still unaffected by gravity and friction, but now the entire screen rotates as he does and you have to keep control of him and track of the level as it turns before you. Pretty good at inducing dizziness.
Vehicle, first of two new characters, is a small, speedy car in which you use up to accelerate, down to decelerate/reverse and left/right to turn. This is a fairly easy one to do since you can be patient with it and it's nippy and agile enough to get through the tightest of gaps.
Square is named to reflect its simplicity. Direction keys simply move it in whichever direction is pressed. It stops instantly when you let go. It's fairly slow (though holding Z will double its speed), but small enough to get through super-tight gaps. Designed to be similar to World's Hardest Game, though is much easier.

The menu system has been redesigned also. It's incomplete (if you play the build you can only access The Grid and Quit Game on the main menu) but getting there. What exists is pretty much fully functional. Controls for the menus are given so I needn't go in-depth into them.

Information

System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Kita Khyber
Fonts: Bebas

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Reviews

“Fun, fun, fun, and more fun is all I can say.” - BitZero
”SO AWESOME!” - Blobman72
”Excellent game play, non-repetitive music, fun problems to solve and replayable thanks to all the different characters. Top marks.” - Philip Gamble
“Playing with the missile is like the most intense game of snake ever created O_o” - SumYungGai
”Add some antialias or at least a option for it. It would improve the visuals a lot.” - YellowAfterlife (I’m sorry YAL, I never did)

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SohoPogoHo

SohoPogoHo, my creation for the Game Jolt jam, is a game in which you play as a pogo stick-wielding prostitute bringing her unique services to the world.

The game is primarily mouse-controlled, with the cursor deciding the direction in which she pogos, and the left and right mouse buttons controlling the bounce intensity. Get to the man at the end of each level to finish it.

The game is fairly difficult, but can be taken both slowly or quickly (slowly's advisable to start with).

Includes two trophies, for completing all ten rooms and for earning $50,000.

Information

System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: None
Fonts: 04b_03b

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Reviews

“I really really like this one” - HarteStulle
”I like this game, but it's very buggy. Buggy as all hell.” - MJDJ
”It's a really original and fun game, with a cool art style.” - Manuel Magalhães
”I work in Soho, and I've not seen any hoes yet!” - Ashley Gwinnell

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It Only Takes A Second

Reach the exit before the bomb blasts off!

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System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Joel Steudler
Fonts: PixelSplitter, Radioland

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Reviews

“Made my head feel a bit like a ping-pong ball being whacked back and forth after a while, but overall, I enjoyed the challenge.” - KniteBlargh
”I really like this game.” - Zack Banack
”It's fun and challenging.” - BitZero

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Innoquous 3

Innoquous 3 is a platform game in which you can use arrows scattered around levels to manipulate in which direction gravity is pointing. The game uses a smooth mechanic to rotate the view accordingly, making the game seem fluent.

There are 30 brand-new levels in the game, which can be played in one of three game modes - Standard (normal), Conditional (a certain objective must be completed for the level to be passed), and Fiery Floors (where some of the ground has been lethalised, increasing the difficulty). Once unlocked, levels can be returned to as many times as you like thanks to an easy to use level select mechanism.

On top of those, there are two speedrun modes. INQS 30 is a speedrun of all 30 of Innoquous 3's levels. INQS 60 is a speedrun of all three Innoquous games in one go. Fastest times are recorded for you when you save your progress, as well as numerous other statistics, some useful, others less so.

There are also ten trophies to collect for meeting certain game objectives, such as the 100% Completion award. These are displayed on a page in the menu.

The menu itself is designed to be easy to use and as little hassle as possible. Use left or right to switch between items, and click/hover over buttons to interact with them.

Information

System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Nathan Wills
Fonts: Interstate

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Reviews

“Awesome Game :)” - Amidos
”I like the crazy gravity behavior. Whoah!” - L4

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Ne Touchez Pas 3

Ne Touchez Pas 3 is a large third games in the NTP series, in which you must mavigate your way through a series of levels increasing in difficulty (they start fairly easily but become very, very difficult as you progress). As well as being a sequel to NTP1/2, it's also a sequel to NAL's Jet Pod and Rockit. In the game, you can choose one of four ways to play - the Bird, the Jet Pod, Rockit, and a spaceman (let's call them NAL).

There are 50 levels in Ne Touchez Pas 3. I have thoroughly tested the game and modified aspects for certain characters to ensure that every level is possible with every character. The game allows you to play any level at any time, so you can skip levels if you get stuck or revisit them at will. It will also record levels you've completed and give you an overall percentage of completion (to give you an idea of the difficulty of the final levels, the highest recorded percentage achieved is 99%).

Information

System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Kevin MacLeod, Peacemaker, Steven Freedom
Fonts: Ambient

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Reviews

“One of your most successful projects. Minimalistic, well made, polished and enjoyable.” - scoz
”Great game that I spent a lot of time playing.” - brxtr
”You did a great job with this!” - KniteBlargh

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