A Prison for Dreams

This is an "Early Access" version. About 50% of the game is finished, and the latter half will appear early next year. The save files will be forward compatible.

A Prison for Dreams is a yet-another 2D pixelart metroidvania platformer thing. It is a "kind-of sequel" to A Graveyard for Dreams, sharing many similarities.

Compare 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
• 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