Parallel Problems

A puzzle-platformer featuring a reality-shifting mechanic that takes you between two parallel worlds—but the worlds are identical, with one being offset by about 52 inches from the other.

Made for Utah Indie Game Jam 2023.

Features “Vaata” by Fupi (CC0 license), “Meeting Place” by Snabisch (used under CC-BY-3.0 license).

 

Ungrateful Birds: No Good Deed


In development for over a year, Ungrateful Birds: No Good Deed is the followup to 2017’s well-received action platformer, Ungrateful Birds. Bigger, better, and with more birds, this game invites you back to the forest to once again free the birds from their cages and dodge the rocks they so ungratefully hurl at you.

Ten types of birds in over three dozen stages await. And now you can play with up to two players in a simultaneous local cooperative mode!

No Good Deed is released as pay-what-you-want, but if you pay $5.99 USD or more, you get access to Ungrateful Birds: Call of the Desert as well.

Ungrateful Birds: Call of the Desert


The sequel to Ungrateful Birds: No Good Deed, this game offers new types of birds and sixteen all-new, unique stages. With environments inspired by the red-rock deserts of Southern Utah and the Navajo Nation.

Ungrateful Birds: Call of the Desert is available alongside Ungrateful Birds: No Good Deed for $5.99 USD or more. Also for up to two players.

Bones in the Boneyard

A falling-block puzzle game where you arrange skulls of the same color into threes and, even more importantly, combine other bones to assemble full skeletons.

Features standard mode, hard mode, endless mode, and three special puzzle stages.

Uses font Magic Forest by anna anthropy.

Made as a Halloween gift for my partner.

Salt Lake Stories

The game includes four short games that feature historical characters and locations:

  • Rocky Mountain Times Newspaper Maker, a puzzle game featuring Shiro Iida, publisher and editor of the Rakki Jiho, taking place in Salt Lake’s Nihonjin Machi (Japantown).
  • Hotel Newhouse, a single-stage, vertical-scrolling platformer in which you ascend the steel frame of the unfinished Hotel Newhouse, once a renowned Salt Lake landmark, featuring Samuel Newhouse and his Newhouse and Boston Buildings. 
  • Free Library Book Sort, a falling-book puzzle game with four stages featuring city librarian Joanna H. Sprague, taking place at the beautiful Free Public Library at 15 S. State Street in Salt Lake City.
  • Anderson’s Tower, an eight-stage puzzle platformer taking place in the Avenues neighborhood, inside Anderson’s Tower, which once presided over the Salt Lake Valley, and featuring the man who built it, Brigham Young’s former personal accountant Robert R. Anderson. 

This game was originally developed for an exhibition at the Salt Lake City Public Library, where it was on display alongside archive materials that inspired it throughout November 2021.

Fairy Penguin Parade

The fairy penguin (also known as the little penguin) is the world’s smallest penguin.

Every night, in many places along the coast of Southern Australia, penguin colonies return en masse from their daily hunting expeditions, under the cover of dusk, to their onshore burrows.

On Phillip Island, this is known as the “penguin parade.”

Guide a penguin home to its burrow as night sets in.

Hold Z to run. When you arrive at the burrows, press C to complete the evening’s journey.

Press F4 to toggle fullscreen.

Press Escape to quit.

Made for the Australian Bushfire Charity Jam, and for its first month available exclusively through the Australian Bushfire Charity Jam Bundle, all proceeds of which go to charities offering aide to people and animals impacted by the 2019-2020 Australian bushfires.

Flickering Chambers

The candles in the Twelve Chambers must be lit by a wickster. Once a wickster lights themself ablaze, they will only have five seconds to light every candle in the room. Plan carefully. Press X to jump. Press Z to ignite. Press K to restart a chamber.

Features “Snowfall” and “It’s Here” by Joseph Gilbert/Kistol.

Released during the final hour of the final day of the final year of the 2010s.

Scales of Love

Dale and Karen have been a couple for four years. They’ve been living together happily for a while now.

Now, something has happened in Karen’s life that might change everything.

Will love be enough to see them through their challenges?

Guide Karen through this very short, part-comedy, part-fantasy visual novel about the heart.

NOTE: This game contains very strong language.

Instructions

  •  Press X, Z, or down to advance dialog boxes
  • Press up or down to select dialog options
  • Press X, Z, or Enter to confirm dialog options
  • Press C to speed up text
  • Press down to skip to full text display

Features the following music:

Made for NaNoRenO 2019.

 

Orbital Paladin Melchior Y

It is the year 231 of the Frontier Era.

A nine-year war continues to rage between two mighty powers in the Earth sphere, conducted largely by heavily armed mechanized suits in space battles.

Eighteen-year-old Wick Palmer joins the small crew of the spaceship Nauvoo to take control of the Orbital Federated States’ most advanced mech. Guarding a remote point in the solar system, the quiet the team has enjoyed cannot hold for long.

Guide Wick as he forges relationships with his teammates, fights off enemies, and questions his place in a war that never ends in this visual novel/shooting action space opera game.

Made for the Emotional (Digital) Mecha Jam.

Music credits:

  • Traditional and classical music arranged by Mick Jones, in addition to original compositions, all released by the artist into the public domain
  • Multiple battle tracks and the title theme are by Jonathan So (CC0)
  • “Introduction Remake+” by Spring (CC-BY-4.0)
  • “Contemplation” by Joth (CC0)
  • “Fallen Hero” by Machine (CC-BY-4.0)
  • Chill lofi music by omfgdude (CC0)
  • “My Friends Will Cry” by Christovix Games, as heard in Chapter Five’s combat sequence