Instructions

Help Jack the donkey collect stuff that matches the big letter in the corner!

Use the arrow keys to move.

Press any key to start.

Use the fullscreen button in the lower-right corner to make the game screen bigger.

Submitted for the 2025 IndieCritical Game Jam! The theme is "it's not what it seems."

Credits

Art, animation, programming, music by Landon X. Jenkins

Additional Textures: Screaming Brain Studios (Creative Commons 0)

Sound Effects: freesfx.co.uk, SoundJay

Code:

Godot Game Template by CrystalBit - MIT License. Copyright (c) 2020 Crystal Bit

CSV Data Importer - MIT License.   Copyright (c) 2021 Haoyu Qiu

Phantom Camera - MIT License.  Copyright (c) 2022 Marcus Skov

THEME EXPLANATION (Spoilers!)

This game looks like a simple letter-matching game for babies...until random objects like fish, almonds, and even butts start flying around.

You'll never score high sticking with just letters! You have to use quick thinking to find objects that start with the given letter, and since synonyms count, nothing is quite as it seems.

For example, a "butt" is also a "patootie" and a "keister" and even an "ass"! In other words, you have to get the "wrong" answers to get a high score! Not your daddy's JumpStart Phonics game, I'll tell ya that for free!