Robin Hood in “Barrels of Trouble”

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Robin Hood’s archnemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham, is at it again!

Jump over barrels to challenge the Sheriff at the top of each of six increasingly devious stages.

This is a troll game, made for Oktrollberfest 2026. That means this game is very mean and tries to trick you.

If the game gets too frustrating, turn on “Assist” mode from the Settings menu.

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Features traditional music adapted from arrangements by Paul Butler
Key sprite by iyol
Fonts: BrightLinger by Andrew Yolland, Jots on Dots (John D. Moore)

 

 

The Flappers

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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

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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

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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

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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).

 

Unphased

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A puzzling multi-screen exploratory platformer made for Oktrollberfest 2023. Figure out and manipulate the obtuse workings of the world as you seek for coins that will put your friend back together.

Features “Meeting Place” & “On the Way to Work,” by Snabisch, used under CC-BY-3.0 license.

Font Gravity Bold 8 by John Watson.

Ungrateful Birds: No Good Deed

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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

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The companion episode to Ungrateful Birds: No Good Deed, this game offers new types of birds and sixteen all-new, unique stages.

Features 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

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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

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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.