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10 Years of Chequered Ink

Chequered Ink is 10 years old today! We founded the company on June 18th, 2015 and since then we’ve made hundreds of games, thousands of fonts, game assets, logos, websites, music, board games, card games and more. We couldn’t have done it without all of your support, so thank you to everyone who has followed us or helped us over the last decade, we’ve got a bunch of good news to celebrate:

Anniversary Sale

To celebrate ten years of indie games by Chequered Ink, we want to give you the chance to play as many as possible! That’s why you can get up to 50% off on our games on Itch.io and Nintendo Switch. Make sure it's started in your region before you buy!

All Fonts Pack Sale

Our hugely popular All Fonts Pack is back on sale for a month!

Get all 1200+ of our commercial use fonts for just $19 – That’s a whopping 90% off!

The sale lasts until July 17th, 2025.

Free Games Pack – 110+ Games for Free!

We’ve bundled up 112 jam entries, HD remasters of older works, experiments, hobby projects and small works, in a wide variety of genres and styles, across a decade of output.

These games were all originally released separately, but you can save yourself a BUNDLE of time and download all 110+ in one pack now!

New Game: Decadence

It’s silly. It’s self-indulgent. It’s a brand new mini game from Chequered Ink!

Play the ultimate card game for FREE now in your browser. Try to collect 20 pieces of gold before your opponent, or deplete their HP, all while activating weapons and spells inspired by 10 years of Chequered Ink games!

Greatest Hits On Tape

Back in March we launched pre-orders for the Chequered Ink Greatest Hits Tape!

This little keepsake contains 10 of our most popular games and 1200 fonts, wrapped up in one neat little launcher on a cassette tape-style USB stick.

For those of you who ordered a copy, they should start shipping between July 1st and July 15th, just in time to enjoy our month-long anniversary celebrations!

Wishlist Nildigo on Steam

In case you missed it, we’ve recently launched the Steam page for an exciting new game called Nildigo.

It’s a mine-sweeping puzzle roguelite with frantic cash-grabbing game play. Grab the money, avoid the Nils, make trillions of dollars before the board explodes.

Coming in 2026, add it to your wishlist on Steam now!

Thank you all!

We want to say a heartfelt thank you to all of you for 10 years of your support, we couldn’t have made it this far without you. We’re excited to bring you more wacky, silly & useful things over the next decade as well!

All the best, from Daniel & Allison.

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We’ll be at Impact! Indie Games 2025, in Bristol on the 22nd May, showing off Nildigo, a spicy but zen roguelike puzzle game. Come along, play Nildigo, and meet us both – Expo Pass tickets are free! impress.games/impact/2025

Screenshots of Nildigo in action - uncover the $1 cells, locate Multipliers to send your bank balance into orbit, using disposable Powers, run-wide Perks, and game-altering Permanents to defeat Nildigod and make your profits soar:

Visit the Power Grabber on weekday boards to accrue new tools and win big. Spend your winnings at the weekend Perk Meet, where over 200 Perks are available at random. And browse a 60-page magazine with hints, tips, tech, everything you need.

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Sick and tired of looking for commercial use fonts? As game developers and designers ourselves, we know how difficult it is to find fonts with flexible licensing for all your needs: graphics, broadcasting, print materials and web.

Our All Fonts Pack contains all 1200+ fonts we've ever released for commercial use, with one of the most generous font licenses you will find on the internet.

It's a no brainer for saving money for your business whether you're an artist, a web designer, a game developer, an author, or anyone else who makes use of fonts on a regular basis.

This pack is usually fantastic value - 99% cheaper than licensing each of our fonts individually, but now it's even MORE affordable. Just $19 for small businesses until the end of this week. Don't miss out on this opportunity!

All Fonts Pack by Chequered Ink

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1200 Fonts for Commercial Use

Do you struggle to find commercial use fonts for your designs? Whether it's simple graphic design, websites, games or merchandise - you can get all 1,200 of our fonts for commercial use in one handy bundle at a massive discount in our May Day Sale.

All of the fonts you see here in the pictures and many more are available in a wide variety of styles, and you can use them for pretty much anything!

You just download the pack and install them on your PC and Mac, and you can begin using them in your favourite programs like Photoshop, Microsoft Word, Affinity Designer etc.

Bring your designs to life with Chequered Ink's full library of fonts this year.

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Our All Fonts Pack is back for $19!

Our All Fonts Pack is back on sale! 1,200 fonts for commercial use for just $19 in our May Day Sale 🌷 Use them in your games, videos, logos, artworks, etc! It's an extremely affordable way of getting tons of fonts in different styles in one go :) ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack

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Celebrating our tenth anniversary with a greatest hits mix tape USB

Here at Chequered Ink, we're celebrating our tenth anniversary as an indie game development studio with a cassette tape USB featuring our best games from the last decade!

We've teamed up with Limited Run Games to create a unique, collectible piece of indie history. Chequered Ink's Greatest Hits includes the following ten games:

Innoquous 5: A mind-bending gravity-flipping platformer

Gyro Boss DX: Dodge an endless assault of wacky weapons from a big, bad boss

Maddening Euphoria: Escape the wall as you run around in circles

Cryptrio: Match three madness with a spooky twist

Revolver and Co: The quiz game where you shoot killer robots with your knowledge

Plunder Dungeons: The deck-building dungeon crawler with the silliest weapons and outfits

Ink Cipher: Classic code-breaking to engage your brain

Spellworm: Feed the hungry worm words & letters to solve puzzles

Monoquous 2: A physics-defying platformer where everything is black and white

Non-stop Space Probe: Blast through space as a rocket that never stops

Also included on the tape are all 1200 Chequered Ink Fonts for commercial use. Bring your designs to life with fonts in every kind of style, from scribbly handwriting to graceful calligraphy and everything in between!

The Greatest Hits USB Tape is available on pre-order from March 25th to April 27th, 2025 for $29.99 - which represents a HUGE saving versus the cost of buying all of our games and fonts individually, plus you get a cool retro trinket for your video game collection. What's not to like?

As a Limited Run release, this is the ONLY time you'll be able to get your hands on the Chequered Ink Greatest Hits Tape. Check it out on the Limited Run Games website here: https://limitedrungames.com/collections/all-games/products/chequered-ink-greatest-hits-pc

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Free Game Assets

Our first FREE game asset of the year! Our card games graphics pack features 88 high resolution PNG graphics of cards, chips and dice for use in your games :) Card Games Graphics Pack – Chequered Ink

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Monoquous 2 is out now!

Phase through walls, floors and ceilings to invert and twist the world at will in 130+ challenging puzzle platforming levels!

Available on Steam and Nintendo Switch (NOA)!

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For those who don't know - here's a guide on how to load new fonts into GameMaker to use in your projects! https://chequered.ink/how-to-use-our-fonts-in-gamemaker/

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Calling all designers, game developers, merchandise makers - we're still running our best deal of all time on our fonts! You can get all 1200+ font styles we've ever made in one big pack for one tiny sum until the end of this year.

We've got your basic serifs, sans serifs, handwriting fonts, sci-fonts, fonts that look like sweater stitches, toy bricks and more - All for Commercial Use!

Find out more at All Fonts Pack by Chequered Ink

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Your generosity - the absolutely overwhelming response to our All Fonts Pack last week - has literally saved our business. Huge thank you from me and Allison here's a video about it & some of our plans for next year! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=earcXAixkM8

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Get over 1200 font styles for full commercial use in the Chequered Ink All Fonts Pack.

1200+ Font Styles

Every commercial font we’ve ever made until now, all zipped up in one pack. There are handwriting fonts, techno fonts, blackletter, comic, pixel art – the whole pack has a vast range of genres and vibes to choose from. Don’t just take our word for it – you can preview our entire catalogue of fonts for free here.*

Full Commercial Use

Pay once, use all 1200 of these fonts forever. There’s no subscription, and you can use the fonts an unlimited number of times in all of your commercial projects. Check out the full terms of the license for this pack here.

This asset pack is intended for small businesses with 20 employees or fewer and an annual turnover of $2,000,000 USD or less.  If your business is bigger than this, check our regular font licenses here: Font Licenses – Chequered Ink

Massive Savings – Our Best Deal Ever

We normally license our fonts at $30 each.  Buying this pack instead, and getting all 1200+ fonts in one, represents a saving of approximately… ahem… Thirty Five THOUSAND dollars. Over 99% off the cost of licensing each font individually! It’s our best deal ever, and we hope you enjoy it while it lasts! 

*Pack currently includes fonts released up to December 2nd, 2024.

All Fonts Pack by Chequered Ink

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We just redesigned our itch page and to celebrate we created a bundle with ALL of our paid games for 80% off - that's under ten dollars for all 15 of these games... and one of them is actually a pack of 71 games itself?? So you actually get like 85 games in total! CRAZY

All Games Bundle by Chequered Ink - itch.io

The bundle features:

Innoquous V - A gravity-bending puzzle platformer

Ink Cipher - A code cracking word game

Will you be my laser? - A top down laser avoider

WillO Revisited - A mouse-based puzzle game

GameDevDan vs Life - a pack of 71 smaller games

Gyro Boss DX - The orbital avoid 'em up

Ne Touchez Pas 5 - A game where you can't touch the walls

Spellworm - A wordsearch game with a cute little worm

Tiny World Racing - Think old school flash racing games

Pippu: Bauble Quest - Our ode to classic platformers

Revolver & Co - A quiz game with guns

Plunder Dungeons - A dungeon crawling card game

Cryptrio - Think T*tris meets Match 3

Prisnhax - A light reflecting, mirror rotating puzzle game

Love Witch Heroines - Our new match 3 game with cute witches

Help us make our 10th anniversary special and get a whole bunch of cool little games in the process!

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We've updated the free demo for Love Witch Heroines so that you can now play 25 levels of story mode instead of just 5!

This also gives you the opportunity to unlock Charm Mode and check start unlocking new outfits for the Guardian Witches.

If you reach and complete level 10 for any of the witches, you'll free them from their painting and unlock them in Charm Mode, revealing new dialogues and giving you the opportunity to befriend them and change their outfits.

We hope this longer demo will help more people to enjoy Love Witch Heroines!

Love Witch Heroines by Chequered Ink

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A video of the gameplay for our new game Love Witch Heroines ❤️⭐ Rescue the five elemental witches trapped inside paintings by completing match 3 puzzles, then befriend them and unlock cute outfits to play in endless mode!

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Love Witch Heroines - Rescue & Befriend Cute Witches

❤️⭐ Rescue & befriend Cute Witches  ⭐❤️

The Guardian Witches who protect the elemental spell stones have all been sealed away by the darkness. Rescue them from their paintings, befriend them and unlock cute new outfits for each one!

❤️⭐❤️⭐❤️⭐       Story      ⭐❤️⭐❤️⭐❤️

A mysterious dark figure enters the mansion of the elemental witches and seals all five of them away inside paintings. Our heroine, Hato, must use her powers to free each witch from the darkness.

Filled with gratitude, the witches become good friends with Hato and can't wait to show her all their outfits!

❤️⭐❤️⭐❤️⭐    Game Play      ⭐❤️⭐❤️⭐❤️

Match the Spell Stones in groups of three of the same shape and color to unleash their power. Swapping a Spell Stone with an adjacent stone will create matches, combos and chains to boost your magical abilities.

Rescuing each Guardian Witch in Story Mode will make them available in Charm Mode - where you can chase your high score and build a friendship with each witch to reveal more outfits.

❤️⭐❤️⭐❤️⭐      Features      ⭐❤️⭐❤️⭐❤️

Story Mode with 60 levels to rescue the Guardian Witches

Charm Mode - endless high score chasing fun

8 characters with 24 outfits between them

The 5 Guardian witches have 1 ceremonial outfit, 2 date outfits and 1 swimsuit each! 👙

You can also play with Hato, her friend Beet and even the Darkness itself.

Quick Save feature - never lose your progress in a run, just pause and save for later!

Grab the demo on itch now, or get the full game 50% off for launch! Love Witch Heroines by Chequered Ink

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When the screen starts to get a bit busy 🤪

Cryptrio is out now on Steam & Nintendo Switch!