The Elephant Collection

The collection gathers jmtb02's classic blue elephant games, from puzzle platformers to rapid-fire arcade fare. In This is the Only Level there is literally one level, but the solution changes every time you beat it. Elephant Quest sends you across an expansive world to reclaim a stolen bowler hat, powering up your elephant and running side quests for other elephants. You also have a laser. Obey! the Game gives you instructions to follow, until it tells you not to. And Elephant Rave asks you to dodge lasers and challenge your understanding of elephants. Each one is short, strange and built around a single joke that actually holds up.

The games are tied together by a new overarching story: the little elephant has forgotten everything he ever accomplished, and it is up to you to help him remember. It is a light thread rather than a heavy plot, a sentence or two before each game and a short cutscene after, but it gives the collection a reason to exist as one thing instead of a folder of old files.

Every game got remastered artwork that works at both original and higher resolution, and the music and sound effects, once compressed for the web, now play at a much better quality. The ads are gone too. The originals themselves are preserved as they were, janky physics and all, which is part of the charm: these are old games kept honest, not modernized. There is also a "Memories" feature with the developer's commentary on each game, giving a look at how these odd little creations came to be.