Toby's Jar Adventure
A downloadable game for Windows
Game jam game made within ~48 hours for my buddy Toby.
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Controls: Left stick/WASD to move, A/Spacebar to shoot.
Destroy the jars and aim for the highest score!
Version 1.1 Changes:
- Destroying a jar now awards 2 points instead of 1.
- Jars now display which item they will drop before being destroyed, if they will drop one.
- Jars now show a heads up indicator on the edge of the screen prior to them appearing on screen.
- Added two new modes: Mystery Jars and Jardcore.
In "Toby's Jar Adventure," players embody Toby, a courageous young lad celebrated for his exceptional boomerang throwing skills. Set in a vibrant and whimsical world teeming with colorful landscapes and fantastical creatures, Toby faces a unique challenge: breaking cursed jars to prevent getting trapped within them.
Armed with only his trusty boomerang, players must guide Toby through a series of perilous levels, where he must skillfully aim and throw his boomerang to shatter jars and gather valuable resources. Along the way, Toby encounters various obstacles and adversaries, testing his agility and precision to the limit.
However, the ultimate trial awaits Toby at the end: the boss jar challenge. Here, Toby must confront the formidable Boss Jar, a powerful entity guarding the cursed jars. In a thrilling showdown, players must utilize Toby's boomerang skills to defeat the Boss Jar and emerge triumphant. "Toby's Jar Adventure" offers players an exhilarating experience filled with action-packed boomerang throwing and epic boss battles. Join Toby on his daring quest and prove your mastery of the boomerang in this exciting adventure.
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Having recently dedicated a modest three hundred hours into Toby’s Jar Adventure, I believe that I’ve finally reached a point where I can leave an accurate review of the game.
As someone who has grown up with a crippling fear of glass jars, being officially diagnosed with Virtumhydriphobia (which annually affects 7% of the world's population), it took a lot of effort to get into this game. However, I believe that in the end it was worth it. Toby’s Jar Adventure changed my life.
There are many significant and meaningful symbolic metaphors scattered throughout the game. The most obvious being that the character is dressed like the iconic Dorathy Márquez, a true American hero and anthropological scholar. This particular way of dressing the character represents both the naivety and curiosity of the human species; we strive towards progress but often lack the foresight to recognize the corresponding consequences. Watching Toby struggle through the game reminds me of a profound quote from Friedrich Nietzsche, in which he declares that “to live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering”.
I like to believe that the jars represent the moments in our memories which we regret; they swirl around us like a cloud of angry insects, crashing into our psyche and shattering around us. The titular Toby, whom we play as in the game, bravely chooses to face his inner demons.
We all have a little Toby inside of us.
Toby’s mighty weapon, the quintessential ‘Tobedo’, is an unlikely tool - though, perhaps it helps to remind the player that goals can be achieved with even the most bizarre of means. Toby’s Jar Adventure reminds us that we are all heroes - no matter how small we may feel.
As someone who personally owns a military grade CAE Tropos 7000XR flight simulator, I found the controls and handling of Toby’s Jar Adventure to be nearly indistinguishable from real life. Despite having a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, I found that I was unable to run the next-gen graphics at 300fps on my 8K monitor.
I cannot put enough emphasis on the fact that Toby’s Jar Adventure goes beyond simple programming; Toby’s Jar Adventure transcends the title of 'art' and walks among the sublime. Buy this game and see for yourself; see for yourself how much better your life will be.