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Test your Britishness with Ink Spell: British Place Names - a gruelling, arduous journey through the complexity, history, and ludicrousness that are British towns, cities, villages and suburb names - and, specifically, how they sound compared to how they're spelt.
System: HTML5
Price: Free
Music: None
Fonts: Transport, Georgia, Avant Garde
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Created in around an hour for the 10^2 100 minute game jam.
You win… on one condition.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Allison James (Queen of Clubs, Gossamer Girls)
“very cool game, i loved the 8 bit look you had going there. “ - V.MMXX
Are you a film buff? A moviegoer? A cinemaphile?
Ink Rebus: Films is a collection of over 200 cryptic clues to film titles from several generations of cinema.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: None
Fonts: Allison James (Queen of Clubs, Riemann Theatre)
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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
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.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Dan Johnston and Allison James
“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
Do you know your onions - inside out, forwards and backwards? Then Ink Rebus: Idioms is the game for you!
Solve over 350 puzzles that give you a cryptic picture leading you in the direction of a wide array of popular English idioms and phrases. Ranging from the mundane and easy to deceptive and clever in the most lateral of ways, Ink Rebus: Idioms will give your brain a workout - and maybe teach you an idiom or two in the process!
Ink Rebus: Idioms can be played with a mouse and keyboard, or using mouse or touch controls.
System: Windows
Price: £0.99
Music: None
Fonts: Allison James (Queen of Clubs)
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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.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Allison James
Fonts: Allison James (Glue Gun)
“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
Decode the cipher in Ink Cipher!
Ink Cipher is a sleek take on the puzzle sometimes known as the "cipher crossword", "codeword" or "codebreaker".
You're presented with a grid filled with words... except all the letters have been replaced by numbers. Each number represents its own letter. Using your knowledge of the English lexicon, fill in the letters where you can recognise words and crack the cipher!
Free edition includes 11 puzzles. Paid edition includes over 100 puzzles and counting.
Game is touch friendly (requires no keyboard input, although it is optional in the free version), intuitive to play for anyone, and contains a help screen on how to play.
System: Windows
Price: £0.99
Music: Joel Steudler
Fonts: Gotham
“Really rather good crossword puzzler. 104 crosswords taking an average of 5 minutes to solve = 9+ hours of fun for a dollar. Totally worth it!“ -pb
Decode the cipher in Ink Cipher!
Ink Cipher is a sleek take on the puzzle sometimes known as the "cipher crossword", "codeword" or "codebreaker".
You're presented with a grid filled with words... except all the letters have been replaced by numbers. Each number represents its own letter. Using your knowledge of the English lexicon, fill in the letters where you can recognise words and crack the cipher!
Free edition includes 11 puzzles. Paid edition includes over 100 puzzles and counting.
Game is touch friendly (requires no keyboard input, although it is optional in the free version), intuitive to play for anyone, and contains a help screen on how to play.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Joel Steudler
Fonts: Gotham
I forgot to back the feedback this got from the GMC Jam it was entered into on the old GMC - which has now been eradicated. Whoops.
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.
System: Windows
Price: Free
Music: Pida, Raam, Billy Green
Fonts: Allison James (Vermin Vibes 2 Soft)
“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
