The Goal
This is not another story of pirates, your goal is to take people back to the island before they drown at the sea.
Drop wood ships close to them and take them back to the lighthouse before you run out of time.
Created in just 48 hours for Toy Box Jam 2025. It is a playable game but several aspects could be improved, those are already on my backlog list! Feedback is more than welcome.
Controls
⬅️ Rudder to the left
➡️ Rudder to the right
🅾️ Increase speed
❎ Decrease speed
⬇️ Drop tiny wood ships (close to npcs)
Credits
Sprite Ideas by That Tom Hall, Lafolie, Liquidream, Toby Hefflin, Johnny Burgess, others.
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TOY BOX JAM is a yearly jam where I give you all the graphics, sounds, and music, and you have to make a game with just those assets! TOY BOX JAM 2025 was the biggest ever, peaking at 901 Jammers! We got 94 game submitted. (Plus many spam games, but tried to handle those.)
Big thanks to @MaxOsirus who helped wrangle Pico-8 developers, organize the titles, and fix up the Launcher. Kudos to you! And others for encouragement to make it happen. Thanks!
The Launcher Cart's label is a chicken, because the Jammers made a lot of chicken games, and then we added more chicken graphics to support their craziness!
Thanks to @Doriencey for her great 16x16 spritesheet and overtime on chicken duty, and all the people that helped test the ARG Mystery and Jam, and thanks last to all the Jammers! You made this amazing, big, chickentastic, and fun!
HOW TO USE THE LAUNCHER
Use the left and right arrows to move between games.
Pressing X will either launch Pico-8 games, or it will copy the URL of the non-Pico-8 game into the clipboard. Just open a new browser tab, paste it in there, and hit Enter/Return to go play it. (These games won't return to the Launcher, but you can just go back to that Browser Tab.
Pico-8 games: Press Return to get the Pause Menu, then choose "Back to Launcher".
Have fun!
THE GAMES
Here are all games -- try them out!
ninjado - narcolepticfrog
seadogs - morganquirk
sally's star racers - paloblancogames
pig farm - kittenm4ster
the tower - blues_driven
free range - monkey burner
hello galaxy - squishyam
chicketron - deus tex
charon's gold - brytergames
that's not a chicken! - oldillusion
ninjoe and the reflex maze - maxosirus
critter combo - dual shocked music
robo rundown - slamb036
safety ship - jose perez
swap-geon - bluetiecasual
raz reductions - coconutmunky
books - mindlessturtle
shmup wannabe - showner
catch that chicken! - stargazersees
gravity chicken - sho nakano
30 seconds to live - dpsa_264940
batty piglet - foppygames
ninja speed runner - external
reach the star - torshi88
feed the king - domi from futurerebels
dimond hunter - mohaa07
find the gems - 31math62
turned based gumber thinker - adamavramov
star collector - desistdawdling
terminal - alejandro ciuba
wendyl's wizarding adventure - bitbionic
escape - tim-vh
ninja volley - samu1407
chicken scratch - houndfire
rozie saga - was a bee
swim_bomber - aji creators
chicky's adventure - isaac estudillo
how many? - onetruemmo
backstab - zepphireos
chik n rail - ulinsoft
chicken survivors - octoan
chicken rush - prismaticdaze
cluck rush - tai
the many adventures of mudball - upset_eastern
chicks and me - jmtu
alien shooter - dz373
chicken troubles - etfaison
for the coop & glory - murraybot
azuremission - federov
brick kick - spicem
alien invasion - w2w2w2w2
poultry party! - dumub cyberlaelaps burritobrawler
ahoy adventure! - lucasshadow1
pizak - kc00l
grand theft chicken - ruben tipparach
fishing bloke - robthedudeyo
spixeon - mega animation
the eternal spring - happy-ferret
pixelated maze - symsq
gravity girl - ronbeehive
munchling - sinnon
feathered revolution - paulinskyrulez
spike escape - andrebubniak
snakes on a plain - lusid games
chicken platformer - bluecrafter
gauntlet swipe: the lost relics - zemane
capetown caves - jazzydingo
henball - rdhagan
the haunted village - bau
don't fall rollerskating! - aufox
endure the dungeon! - siddharthabertelsie
situation normal: all clucked up! - ai864
chicken apocalypse - drazengames
game - iamdoingstuff
alien invaders - evans555666
spelunker cave jumper - philnemba
subject 886 - salmino
the medieval trader - happymao
omnidroid survivors - stranded cosmonaut
topanga quest - marcim3b
help alien - artharva_1535
bomb castle - daon_game
on borrowed time - rizv13
thin walls - vaszed877
rogue ranger rendezvous - scarlettoivr
subject: b10661 - esclate96
chicken vs alien - joe ritson
monster survival - aidan157
remold - doomboxofficial
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Controls
Tile-Swapping Mode
⬅️⬆️⬇️➡️ - Move the cursor (and its mirror!)
Z - Swap the tiles
X - Start dungeon mode
Dungeon Mode
⬅️⬆️⬇️➡️ - Move the character
Hold Z - Restart the level
Swap-Geon
You must escape the swap-geon! Beware of the danger rising up through the levels! Swap the tiles between adjacent rooms to build your path out!
Development Background
Developed as part of Toy Box Jam 2025 where all the visual and audio assets (e.g. sprites, music, sfx) are provided and participants are challenged to make a game with it.
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Hiya,
so for my current project I would like to have a countdown timer that is formatted 00:00 (minutes and seconds). In my previous projects I've just had seconds counting down, but I'm not sure how to go about doing this new format while still having it be a functional timer. Any thoughts appreciated!
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Where legends are made and kings are crowned
Generating and editing maps in picotron for some possible future game(s)
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This is the start of an RTS engine I was working on last year. I haven't worked on it a bit, and it isn't fully usable on BBS, but if you want to take it and make something with what I have here, have fun! If you do use this please credit me.
SPRTSE ("Spritzy" -- Small Picotron RTS Engine)
(Only using Lego Battles images as stand-in -- since it had everything I was wanting simplified. All was going to change when I got further along, but I kinda stopped.)
SPRTSE "Lego Battles Plus Game Test":
Here are the 2 previous carts I made to test some of the in-game mechanics.
Map Navigation:
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Swopper is a game where you "swop" blocks from place to place, doing your best to match 3 or more of them together. You play as Swopper, intergalactic spacesuit-wearing orangutan hero kidnapped recruited by extraterrestrial visitors to save their planet from a block apocalypse.
UPDATE!
Changes 09/02/26
- New powerup: Time Out! Time freezes, allowing you to set up big matches risk-free.
- Fireworks pop when you achieve a 12x multiplier or higher, extending the current level a bit each time
- Added total blocks matched to the high score list
Changes 08/06/26
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Update 1.1 (2026-07-12):
- Decreased Redbloom price from 5 to 4
- Removed normal Fungus from store
- Added Wildflower
- Slight visual tweaks
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Controls
x to bark, and to skip next level message
left and right to move horizontally
Credits
https://www.youtube.com/@spacecat88 (very helpful tutorial)
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Ninjeste
Help Ninjaline (which is totally not just Madeline in goofy ninja costume) ascend to the top and cleanse the evil of the Tower of Juéwàng.
Controls
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Arrows to move, Z to jump. Instead of wall sliding, you stick to them instead.
- X + Arrows to smoke-bomb
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Shift + Arrows to toss a shuriken
- Enter / P to take a break
- Press Ctr+P to enter the matrix.
- Press the button on your monitor to enter sleep mode.
- Kick your computer to turn the game off and your computer forever.
Change Log
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General use TCP library for hosts and clients.
This acts as a very very basic example of usage for it.
tcp.lua is the actual library.
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