Note: I made part of the game a little confusing. Don't keep the treasure chests, get rid of them. You don't get anything for keeping them around, I just goofed when making the story and made it sound like you were supposed to keep them.

Don't let it sink!

After plundering a ship, you made the shortsighted move of blowing it up. As you get away on your raft, pieces are falling down from the sky your way. Break them with a shoulder bash or knock them off before the raft gets overloaded and sinks. Survive long enough to make it to safety with your treasure!

This was solo developed within 96 hours for the 2026 GMTK Jam, with the theme "Count Down". 

While I worked on it the entire duration of the jam, I only had Saturday and Sunday off to do the bulk of the work so I think I did pretty good!

Controls

  • Move: Left/Right arrows,  A/D keys, left joystick, Left/Right dpad
  • Jump: Space key, Up arrow, W key, Z key, Right/Left face buttons
  • Shoulder Bash: Shift key, X key, Top/Bottom face buttons
  • Downward Slam: (While in air) Down arrow, Down joystick, Down dpad
  • (Windows only) Fullscreen: F11 key

Gamepad inputs are not tested, if you use one and there's a problem let me know

Tips

  • You can cancel your shoulder bash by trying to move in the opposite direction, or by performing a downward slam
  • You can jump while shoulder bashing, you will keep your bash going until you land, cancel, or hit a solid object
  • If you jump and aim at the side of two blocks, you can hit them both with one bash or slam
  • Treasure chests are worth more points when broken rather than dropped. This is unique to the treasure chest as other blocks are worth the same broken or dropped

If you're having trouble making it to the end but want to see the whole thing, I have a recording here

Public Assets Used

Used a mix of public assets, old assets from past projects, and new assets created for this jam

Art

Audio

Fonts

Plugins

Everything else was either made by me during the jam, or are from past projects I made and own

Known Bugs

Let me know if there is anything not in the list, thanks!

  • Brittle blocks sometimes act solid when bashed
  • Brittle blocks act solid when slammed
  • Sometimes blocks pushed in the air can slightly occupy the same space as other blocks
  • Downward slam is very spammable

Download

Download
PlunderLoadJam-Win.zip 40 MB

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