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Abysmal Ascent

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Abysmal Ascent is a platformer with roguelike elements. You play as a desperate mage, trapped deep underground and determined to escape the treacherous depths. Harness your arcane powers, overcome deadly enemies, and face off against formidable foes as you ascend through procedurally generated environments.


Can you make it to the surface?


Controls:

  • X: cast spell to fly
  • Y: shoot a spell
  • Y + arrow up: shoot upwards a more powerful spell able to break ground 

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Features:

  • 2 boss fights
  • 3 different environments
  • 6 different enemies with unique abilities
  • 11 unique powerups


Acknowledgement

Thanks to everyone in Neardy Teacher's discord for help, playtesting and feedback (Special thanks to Neardy Teachers and Fletch).


Development:

2023-11-17

  • increased cooldown after level-up to prevent unintentional selection
  • some powerups can be selected multiple times, giving players more choices and the possibility to avoid featherlike
  • very minor increase to default mana regeneration
  • corrected typos

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Really nice game. It was harder than I thought

this game is fire. like 8-bit, spooky jetpack joyride almost. addicting. super like, pick up and play and i look forward to coming back to this amazing piece of work that this website has produced. bravo.

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Score
3.59 / 5.00

Uploaded
Nov 5, 2023
5:21 PM EST
Software
  • PICO-8