Jailbird
Cleo is a young mage imprisoned for reasons unknown. After being taken to her cell, she finds she managed to keep a small, weak wand concealed in her robe, and plots her escape.
NOTE: TIC-80 web builds run in Firefox can be extremely choppy. If you're experiencing this, you can try going into your Firefox settings and disabling recommended performance, and enabling using hardware acceleration when possible. If this doesn't resolve the issue, there's unfortunately nothing else I can do, but downloadable versions are available.
Gameplay controls are as follows:
| Keyboard | Controller | Action |
| Left/right arrow keys | Left/right on d-pad or left stick | Move left and right |
| Up/down arrow keys | Up/down on d-pad or left stick | Aim up and down |
| Z key | A button | Jump |
| X key | X button | Fire |
| C key | B button | Alt fire |
| Tab key | Y button | Pause |
| Published | 2 days ago |
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | HTML5, Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 total ratings) |
| Author | PAPERMOON_SO |
| Genre | Platformer, Action |
| Made with | TIC-80 |
| Tags | 2D, Metroidvania, No AI, Pixel Art, TIC-80 |
| Code license | MIT License |
| Asset license | Creative Commons Attribution v4.0 International |
| Average session | A few minutes |
| Languages | English |
| Inputs | Keyboard, Xbox controller |
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Install instructions
For the .tic file, you have to place it in your TIC-80 working directory and then load it. For the Windows executable, all you have to do is run it.
For the Mac build, you must first open the terminal and run
chmod a+x jailbird-1_0-mac && xattr -c jailbird-1_0-mac
The first command will make the file executable, and the second clears extended attributes, including clearing the browser’s quarantine flag to avoid invoking the Gatekeeper.
For the Linux build, you may need to run
chmod a+x jailbird-1_0-linux
before the file can be run. This command will make the file executable.

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Well done! I was just going to try a bit and now that snake eye is toast.
ive just got the wall kick boots but they dont seem to do anything so i cant get back up the wall ... any idea whats wrong ?
edit - got it done but its very tricky