A retro platformer · free · win / mac / linux
Pip's PyLocket Odyssey
A retro platformer with a secret buried in its source code. Play it for the score, or take it apart for the keys.
- On the board 0
- High score 0
- Levels cracked 0 of 3
- Bounty winners 0
Pick your path
Three things happen here. They are all the same game.
Compete
Every run submits to the global board. Pick any alias, no sign-up and no email.
Leaderboard →
Crack
The keys are in the source. Find one first and you are in the Hall of Fame for good.
The bounty →The cast
4 shown · full cast on /about
World 01 of 04
The Digital Gardens
Floating islands, bioluminescent flowers and data-stream waterfalls. Wind physics matter here, and so does knowing when not to jump.
See all worldsGlobal high scores
View top 100The board is empty
Nobody has finished a run yet. The first score posted here holds rank 1 until somebody beats it, and right now that is anybody.
Be firstFour steps to a key
No registration, no NDA, no waiting for approval. Download it and start looking.
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Step 1. Get the game
Download the free build for your platform and play it once. It is a real game, not a puzzle box.
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Step 2. Open it up
Unpack it, decompile it, debug it. Everything you do to your own copy is allowed.
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Step 3. Find a key
Three keys, one per locked level. Each one is reachable from the shipped artifact alone.
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Step 4. Submit it
Be first and the locket opens with your alias on it.
Three key submissions in total, tied to one email address, for the entire program.
The reward
First finders join the White Hats.
The White Hats are the guardians who hand out quests in the safe zones. Crack a locket first and one of them becomes you: your alias, a portrait built with you, and one line of dialogue in a future version of the game. Permanent credit in the Hall of Fame. There is no cash component, and we would rather say that plainly than bury it.
< your alias >
White Hat · first finder
Locket status
0 of 3 cracked · live
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Level 02
Unclaimed
Key not yet found by anybody.
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Level 03
Unclaimed
Key not yet found by anybody.
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Level 04
Unclaimed
Key not yet found by anybody.
Latest news
All newsWinner · TBC
No winner announcements yet
The first person to open a locket gets this slot, a portrait, and a White Hat character in the game. It is deliberately empty right now.
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The game is protected by PyLocket: whole-app encryption, JIT function decryption and a hardened native runtime for Python desktop apps. The bounty is a public test of it. What PyLocket is →
phase 2 · /pylocket