The Blue Box

About this game

The Blue Box is host to a collection of individually purchasable games:

• Make burgers with physics to earn minimum wage in BurgerGame.
  
• Negotiate the price of food items as a llama in Llama goes to Market.
  
• Realize the full extent of humanity in YWDH.
  
• Race against other ostriches to escape the police in DDAFPST Ostriches.
  
• Play basketball across the globe in BBA SLAM.
  
• Go back in time to snap some sweet pics of creatures in Oligocene Snapshot.
  
• Pilot a futuristic jet at breakneck speeds through a sci-fi city in Normality.

The Blue Box is also host to a gallery of toys and other completely free game experiments:

• Raise your virtual forever friend in Pocket Dootie.
  
• Live a day in the life of a fabric weaving friend in Pube Spider (I Love You).

More and more games are being added over time, thanks to everyone's support.

Latest news

• Community & Events·19 Jan 2020Official

  Blue Box ANTI-SALE Event

  LABOR OF LOVE People are always saying that indies should charge more, so we're taking charge! Except, we have executive dysfunction ADHD and forgot to put batteries in the machine that makes The Blue Box cost money, so in 12 days from the time this was posted (that's 01/31/20) The Blue Box will be free! You will only need to give us $0.00 to play The Blue Box! We're also announcing a brand new game: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32612671/f7bb9a3097d2c4838ce37324bb857313c616feaa.png Zero Towel Dilemma (Giskers Escape) Zero Towel Dilemma (Giskers Escape) is a fast paced escape the room game where the only puzzles you'll need to solve are strictly kinetic. Plow your way through everything in the house until you find what you need to clean up Giskers' mess. This game will be made available at a later date. This game will be sold as paid DLC, but everyone that owns The Blue Box before 01/31/20 will get it for free when it comes out. That's all -- psych; we're announcing a second brand new game: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32612671/093c315dc119cfcc46cc5bee2021b7f1d49232cd.png Pocket Dootie Pocket Dootie is the state of the art Virtual Pet Buddy you can take anywhere. He will protect you with his handy dandy switch blade. Train him, raise his stats, and try desperately to keep him alive. Visiting him daily will allow him to survive in this incredibly cruel world. Pocket Dootie will be made available as free DLC at a later date. This means all you gotta do is have The Blue Box installed and you get access to this digital delight. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32612671/d0705f08d9ca9bd6072d3f43fc8c87f0b92d19ed.gif WE GIVETH AND WE TAKETH AWAY We're doing all this because we're actually converting each game inside The Blue Box into paid DLC except for Pube Spider, which will become free DLC. There's a lot of reasons going into why we've made this decision, but here are a few major ones: It makes it easier to pick what you want. Since the main goal of The Blue Box is to become an ever-expanding collection o...
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• Patch Notes·4 Nov 2019Official

  Locale Update: YWDH + Launcher Options

  Happy Post-Halloween! We're just in time for that awkward transition between thinking about spooky things and thinking about your family, so, what better time to spend this spooky purgatory than with Grandpa from YWDH. YWDH Now features Japanese localization data, provided by Leah Hicks. You can now experience Grandpa's story in multiple languages. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32612671/7dbe1173b31047591dd140d0e372bdded295d0c9.png Has had its UI replaced to be higher resolution and more readable for everyone. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32612671/6ed1fc3e0c537cb7d7956c59688fb73aaa5c0c48.png The input code for the game now makes camera rotation easier. The default movement configuration for the game is less likely to get stuck after alt-tabbing, and is more responsive on controllers with analog input. Now uses the steamworks API. General game optimizations to provide a more stable experience. The logic for picking a language is: Pick a locale automatically based on your OS language. This will be used if there is an error getting this info from steam. If the launch argument --lang=ja_JP is provided, it will override 1. If it can retrieve a language from steam, it will use that. (overrides 1. & 2.) If the launch arguments -language japanese is provided, it will override 3. The Blue Box Launcher Now features a gear on each game page, allowing you to define options for each. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32612671/fb5e4251703c47fa849a3538263ea68e521a4d48.png Now features the ability to provide launch arguments to any games. This can be useful for supplying documented arguments, or engine level arguments. (see: Unity Standalone Player command line arguments) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32612671/0f890ae24d50009100cf4a725c7590990e7f5435.png Now passes command line arguments from steam into each game. Use this sparingly, or for setting localization overrides. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/32612671/7dd1a125d58eb95809e591ce154a0827b7920b7e.png Disabled unused modules, other minor optimizations that should result in fewer files d...
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• Patch Notes·26 Aug 2019Official

  Update: [2 New Games] The Retro Content Update

  https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32612671/d2045f41ad06cf6880448299c903069faf34fe25.gif The Blue Box Launcher Added two brand new games: Normality - A fast paced arcade style game where you control a futuristic rocket jet and navigate a dark city with all the capabilities of a rocket jet, plus a special time slowing power. Pube Spider: I Love You - An alarm clock that doubles as a retro LCD handheld style game about a spider that can't spin it's own web so it has to collect web-like strands while avoiding droplets that make him moist. Normality The game hinges upon the titular song Normality by Sphere² as it was the direct inspiration of it. Fast paced rocket jet action, and the only thing that can put a stop to it is your inevitable demise. Pube Spider: I Love You Pube Spider can't spin his own web must instead collect web-like strands things that fall from the sky into his porceilin domain. Collect as many strands as you can without losing all your lives from getting wet. Oligocene Snapshot Prof. Choke had his colors changed and his lab has new lighting. New song for floating italian confectionary treat by Ultigonio. New effects for using the dash, which reflects the anxiety you will feel if you miss the perfect opportunity to snap up one of those Oligocene Creatures. Removed some excessive slides from the intro of the game. Burger Game Removed joke where if you pressed the order button but you did not specify anything be purchased, then your coworker will drive to the store and back anyway and waste your gas money -- as it was confusing to some players. As always, thank you for playing, we hope that you enjoy the update and post your high scores so we can see. We're planning on getting something else ou- https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32612671/fc953307f68d7031378ddd49a1bf7e7d364fac12.gif
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• Patch Notes·3 Jul 2019Official

  Update: Version 1.1 - The Feedback Update

  https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32612671/586ffa4708c1a393ab175fd6f739f75f613a0e3f.gif Ever since our initial release, we've been hard at work improving things, fixing bugs, planning content updates, and working on new projects we're looking forward to sharing with you. This post documents all the changes that were made available in the update on 06/27/19. Moving forward, patch notes will be made available with/before their corresponding update. Some changes listed were present in the beta branch, or were made available as fixes as far back as 05/18/18. The Blue Box Launcher Implemented a "Feedback" button that allows players to report bugs, add comments, or share their appreciation for any particular game directly to us. Keep in mind, leaving a Steam Review is the best way to help us get discovered! UI / scaling improvements. Now shows video trailers and provides a way to listen to the music from each game. BurgerGame New Game Plus now makes it easier to perform encore runs with saves. The gameplay area has been optimized to reduce load times and improve aesthetics during gameplay. Achievements were created and defined (see: General Changes) YWDH Changed the UI to scale uniformly across resolutions. Added alternate controls for Q/E to rotate the camera. Fixed lighting to look better in newer versions of the lighting engine. Llama goes to Market Added IRC options to release the hellbird onto everyone. Adjusted haze sorting layers to be more consistent between builds. General Changes All games export settings were consolidated to make them more consistent with one-another. A manual has been made available that outlines the core gameplay of each game and has resources for players that require assistance. A new build process was developed to ease in the delivery of updates. Older code has been consolidated a fair bit, allowing to reduce each games' on-disk size and overhead. Achievements early last year, and were working on rolling out...
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