A Prison for Dreams

A Prison for Dreams is a 2D pixelart metroidvania platformer adventure thing. You play as an anonymous hero who wakes up in a graveyard. You are given a mission to find the Great Dreamer, who needs your help once again.  Explore a decently sized world (it's not small, but it's not really huge either), kill innocent monsters, obtain new items to become more powerful and reach places you couldn't reach before... you know, classic metroidvania stuff.

Compared to my previous metroidvanias, this one has many "groundbreaking" new features, including:

• Slopes! Damn right, slopes.

• No more climbing. Because for whatever reason people hated it before.

• Free camera. No more "camera only moves when you hit the edges of the screen".

• Automatic saving. Because last time I was told that it is not intuitive you need to save the game manually. 

Controls:

Gamepad controls (for Xbox-type gamepads) are listed in parentheses.

• Move: Arrow keys/WASD (dpad/left stick)

• Jump*: space/Z/J (A button)

• Attack*: Ctrl/X/K/Left mouse button (X button)

• Shoot*: Shift/C/L/Right mouse button (B button)

• Down attack*:   Jump & down & attack

• Charge attack*: keep attack button pressed down after attacking and release after the player starts to flicker

• High jump*: press down when on ground, press jump button after the player starts to flicker

• Charge attack*: keep shoot button pressed after shooting and release after the player starts to flicker

• Jetpack*: hold jump button after jumping to active the jetpack.

• Pause: Escape/Enter (Start button)

(*Requires an item)

Saving:

The game saves progress automatically. When you see a spinning floppy disk on the bottom-right corner, the game has been saved, but if you see a flickering symbol with "!" symbol, then something went wrong (most likely your browser blocks local storage)

Source code:

If you enjoy tinkering with the source code more than playing the game itself, you can find the source code on Github: https://github.com/jani-nykanen/a-prison-for-dreams

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