📰 sin: So. Many. Games!
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Today’s newsletter comes to you with a surplus of games! But let that not distract you from all the other amazing stuff people have been working on - check it out:
Community projects
- The annual suno pi toki pona event is a 24h live stream celebrating toki pona’s birthday. Do you have something to present? Do you want to help organise? Do you want to play games? Do you want to contribute a video? Do you want to play or listen to music? Any ideas for activities or booths? Fill in the form! The event is scheduled for August 8, 5:27 AM—August 9, 5:27 AM UTC
- kulupu pi ma Oselasija is a toki pona server for Oceanians!
- The European meetup has added options for extra trips: buses to/from the hostel at the first/last day, to the path of totality of the eclipse, to Subirats and Sitges, to Barcelona, to Tossa de Mar and Girona
- Here is a form you can fill out with a couple of sentences to translate from toki pona to English, for research purposes!
- Last minute call to submit texts to the annual writing contest: You have until THIS SUNDAY when the newsletter goes out!
Songs
- jan Sowape wrote ⚂kasi suli mute, a song about a forest!
- jan Nikita translated Луч солнца золотого from the movie On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians!
- Basil Bagel translated the Deltarune song ⚂Cutie Mew Mew Magic!
- kasi Lija translated ⚂ ヒロガリズム(TVサイズ) by Ami Ishii!
- nja Alila translated Norway’s 1967 entry for Eurovision Dukkemann!
- ciandoesstuff translated ⚂Charlie’s Inferno by That Handsome Devil!
Videos in toki pona
- jan Nikola did card tricks (watch until the end)!
- jan Jami and mun Mekuwi made live commentary on a motorsport event! You can watch an archived version of ⚂some highlights of the Australian Grand Prix 2026
- jan Polijan watched some sunbeams!
- jan Lakuse made a video promoting the writing contest!
Comics
- akesi Sami published chapter 7 of toki pona Knight: The Market ⚂part 1, ⚂part 2!
- jan Pikesike continued translating the manga Bocchi The Rock up to ⚂chapter 22 (⚂alt link)!
- soweli Nalin translated some Pixie and Brutus comics from @pet_foolery! ⚂
- jan Ke Tami published a new ⚂kijetesankalu o! comic
Games
Before we go into the game jam, there are actually games that have been made and have been played outside of the contest:
- jan Jaseta made a ⚂2 player quiz game (repository) for challenging you how well you know toki pona, and then ⚂challenged some friends!
- RubleRus (ka Lupala) made a game in which ⚂you take care of a kijetesantakalu!
- soweli Sawen played Minecraft without dying!
- jan Kekan San finished chapter 4 and started chapter 5 of Deltarune, and then continued playing chapter 5!
- jan Jopa played Ori and the Will of the Wisps!
Game jam
The pali musi game jam is over, and the votes are in! Here are some videos about the projects:
- jan Kekan San played almost all the submissions!
- jan Pikesike showed some gameplay of ⚂o awen e ma!
- jan Sunpi published a walkthrough of ⚂uta(la) telo!
You can play all of these new original games. Have fun!
Digital games
- ⚂uta(la) telo by jan Sunpi: You’re a vampire, flying around as a bat! Fight against enemies while keeping your blood intake high.
- O AWEN E TOMO SUNO! by poki Onitusu: You’re a boat! Your mission: Protect the lighthouse!
- ⚂o telo e ale by jan Nitan: Throw water balloons without getting hit by water balloons enemies throw at you!
- ⚂tomo ilo by jan Netakin (programming & dialogue), jan Wale (graphics) and jan Ante (audio): Explore an abandoned underwater facility.
- ⚂sike lon by jan Pepu: Populate the ocean with kasi, pipi and kala!
- ⚂utala suno by jan Panana: The sun is too hot! Shoot the sun with a watergun!
- ⚂o awen e ma! by jan Pikesike: Due to humanity’s evils, fish now attack land. Protect the land from waves of angry fish!
- musi Sano by jan Mika Sote: You’re an adventurer! Navigate the platforms, defeat enemies and collect potions!
- ⚂pipi o lon by jan Mijawi: You’re a pipi! Save yourself from raindrops falling down and collect lives.
- ⚂jan kule by Jackachulian: You’re a Bob Ross lookalike. Paint the world in pretty colors and attack enemies!
- selo telo by Pm7: You’re a cat! Cats don’t like getting wet. Unfortunately, you’re on a boat in the rain.
- ⚂Utala Telo by ThatOneGuy314: The bosses in this game are hoarding all the water. Get it all back!
- ⚂utala telo by kala Koko: Become the largest waterdrop by merging with other waterdrops and escaping bigger waterdrops!
- ⚂lape nimi by jan Elijo: Deal with your insomnia by solving toki pona word puzzles!
- ilo sona li wile telo by jan Kalekote: Battle against another ilo to get water to the other side!
- ⚂pipelen by poni Kita: You’re a pen bug. Recreate images with ink blots without getting distracted by enemies!
- ⚂Utala Telo by DynomiteWaffle: Rescue a village by blocking incoming ocean waves!
- ⚂soweli seli by jan Telema: Fight against firebeast with water!
- ⚂jan telo utala by SevenGriphon: You’re a water elemental! Fight against the bosses who want you dead!
- musi pi soweli Smug by ceionia: Collect soweli and fight against creatures to get more!
- utala telo!! by jan Peli: A sitelen sitelen game! Recognise sitelen sitelen characters and shoot your watergun before you get soaked yourself.
- monsuta lon supa telo by jan Kona: A rhythm game!
- lanpan suli by jan Keteso: Navigate yourself through a deadly text adventure!
- ⚂misikeke by dongl1n: You are medicine. Solve some puzzles to make the body feel better!
- ⚂musi wasoweli pi tawa wawa by RubleRus (ka Lupala): You’re a wasoweli!
- ⚂o sama e sitelen! by jan Sate: Merge patterns together until they match the sitelen pona character displayed!
- ToWeR by Duda_KMM: Defend a village from monsters!
- ⚂utala pi kama sona by jan Mepi and jan Jako: You’re a sike! Navigate through a series of levels!
Analogue games
- ⚂esun ka by loje Kasenwa: A two-player lyric game about an eternal conflict between telo and ma!
- kiwennasa by tonsi Tenpi: A monster fighting card duel!
- ⚂kala li wile weka tan poki by jan Ke Tami: A narrative-based escape room with TTRPG elements in which fish flee from a predator and get trapped in a cave!
Reading
- jan Asilu wrote a blog about their child learning about music!
- Phototropism translated a page about Removed Content from the Animal Hospital game!
- jan Esi-Pesi / jan Luku created a Minecraft fanwiki in toki pona!
- Salt_Ad4538 made a leko nimi poem!
- jan Usawi shared fae’s perspective on the word “musi” (English)!
Cool graphics
- soweli suli makes sitelen suwi art: o olin e soweli Taka, tonsi, jan pona kin, jaki mama!
- noneuclideanchip drew a ⚂character for art fight!
- tonsimonsi made a meme about “o”!
- lukin ilo identifies objects in photos in toki pona!
Resources
- kasi Lija made a ⚂UTAU for toki pona!
- soweli Nalin made a way to add ⚂sitelen pona to Trilium Notes!
- jan Likipi updated the ⚂Wakalito input method to fix some bugs!
Footnote: ⚂Memories With You Again was actually translated by leko Leki, not katyj98.
Have we missed something? Did you see something cool to share? Help us fill this newsletter! See you soon!
— jan Ke Tami