Abysm

Something ancient is stirring in the darkness below a small town, and your supervisor has sent you there to investigate and report back what you find. The sense of dread as you descend into the catacombs is overwhelming, can you survive the Abysm?

Control your character using WASD, your arrow keys, or the DPAD of a game controller. Escape brings up the pause menu from where you can restart a level if you get stuck. 

This is my submission to the Bevy Spooky Jam with the theme "Eldritch".

Known Issues

• The web performance can be really bad on smaller machines because of an issue related to the lighting system running on WebGL2. Since browser support for WebGPU still is spotty and I don't want to completely prevent some people from running the game, I decided to remain on WebGL2 despite this issue. You have two options:
  • At startup, enter the "Settings" menu and hit the "Disable Lighting" button, then reload the page.
  • The Windows build, which is also available, does not suffer from this issue, so please try that if you can. This is the superior build anyhow, letting you enjoy full screen mode and the pretty lights, which adds greatly to the ambiance.
• Sometimes gamepads are registered too late and then the game can't use them. Randomly interacting with the gamepad while the game is loading seems to cure that ailment

Features

• Twelve levels
• Full keyboard and gamepad support, including for menu navigation
• Persisted progress and settings

I hope you enjoy my game as much as I've enjoyed working on it! This is my second jam game and my second Bevy game. The main mechanics are inspired by a game I played on my C128 as a kid but which has been ported to various other platforms, are you old enough to recognize what game that is?

A big Thank You needs to go out to my awesome play testers!