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Tuxedo Panic

Hop your colony north across the drifting pack ice. Every floe is moving, the lane above runs the other way, and the ice is not always solid. One swipe, one hop.

Coming soon App Store iOS 16+ iPhone & iPad
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A crossing, start to finish.
Tuxedo Panic at dawn on iPad: the colony waits on the beach while floes drift across the water and nests wait on the cliff.
Save the colonyEvery nest on the cliff needs a bird in it before the floe is done.
Tuxedo Panic under the aurora: snow huts on the ice shelves, seals patrolling, and nests on the cliff above.
Avoid the predatorsSeals patrol the shelves, skuas work the lanes, and something is always in the water.
Tuxedo Panic in a whiteout: snow falling over the drifting pack ice.
Test your timingEvery lane runs the other way. Read the gap, then go — one swipe, one hop.

What it is

Frogger’s grammar,
in an Antarctic register.

One swipe, one hop

Swipe any direction, anywhere on the screen. Nothing is drawn over the board, so the play area is never covered by controls.

A colony, not a life bar

You are not flying one bird. Each run spends a colony, and it ends when there are not enough left to fill the nests.

The ice is not on your side

Thin floes crack underfoot and give way. Seals haul out on the shelves, skuas work the lanes, orcas breach in open water, and the shipping lane does not slow down.

Somewhere to hide

Every shelf has two lanes — a walkway, and snow huts you can duck inside where nothing can reach you. Catching your breath costs time, and time is score.

A gate you beat with timing

From floe twelve a submarine surfaces in the nests themselves, sealing one at a time on a count you can learn. Go in on the gap.

Drawn as it plays

There is not one image or sound file in the app. Every penguin, floe, orca and note is drawn or synthesised while you play.

Good to know

What it needs,
and what it asks for.

Requires
iOS 16 or later
Runs on
iPhone and iPad, portrait
Permissions
None at all
Coming to
The App Store

It plays on a plane. The whole game ships inside the app — not one network request, ever. No account, no advertising, no in-app purchase and nothing to sign up for. Your top ten stays on your device, under names you choose.

Support. Questions, bugs or feature requests — email hello@novakplay.com and a person will reply.