The Flappers

This is a fast-paced game about running, jumping, flapping your wings, and collecting gems.

Eight total stages, with eight “Flapper” bird characters, four hidden “Flapper” bird characters.

The first three stages were made for the Craft Lake City Makers Mart jam on May 8, 2026.

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Music: Bass loops by Burabotti. “On My Way” by Dan Knoflice (CC BY 4.0). Used under public domain and Creative Commons licenses.

 

 

Block Ace

Out in space, you are a Block Ace—a fighter who pilots a special spaceship for destroying and moving the Tetris-like blocks that threaten the planet.

As the blocks fall, shoot off parts of them, move them into position, and try to set up neat, full lines of 12 blocks to clear them out.

As the game progresses, enemies will begin to appear attached to blocks. You can either destroy them or dodge their bullets and use them to clear lines.

Available for Windows, macOS, and HTML5.

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Asset credits:
Fonts: Extra Thick (by VEXED, used under CC BY 4.0 license), Press Start K, Digital Jots.
Music from Action 32 chiptune collection by Blake Speers
https://www.youtube.com/@mirasbrush4607

 

Zem

All Zem wants to do is walk ever onward, straight ahead without thinking. Unfortunately, Zem is walking through some pretty dangerous areas. Move blocks to help Zem make it through safely.

  • 35 increasingly challenging stages
  • 3 save files
  • Customizable controls
  • A fully featured stage editor for creating your own shareable levels becomes available after completing Stage 8.

Zem continues the Zem! series of ZZT games started in 1998.

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Asset credits:
Karen Bold font by Paul Spades (public domain license)
Extra Thick font by VEXED (used under CC BY 4.0 license)
Stage clear fanfare by  Little Robot Sound Factory (used under CC BY 3.0 license)
Music by Eric Matyas, www.soundimage.org

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.