Edge of Known Space
You wake up from long-term cryosleep in a starship on an alien planet at the edge of known space. The rest of your team are missing. What happened?
"Edge of Known Space" is a single-screen micro-metriodvania with a sci-fi narrative. Discover clues and tools to reveal more of the map and more of the story. Explore the full map to piece together what happened
- Game and narrative unfold on a single screen
- Metrodvania inspired mechanics presented in a classic roguelike game engine
- Progression unlocks both the story and the map
- Multiple unique terrains and item upgrades
Use arrow keys (or WASD or HJKL) to move, number keys to select items.
On mobile, tap game screen when you see "press Enter," tap an item at the bottom to activate it, and use the virtual joystick (when it appears) to move.
This game was made with the following wonderful assets and tools:
- Built on the rot.js engine
- Sci-fi music from alkakrab
- ASCII map designed on ASCII-mapper
- Title ASCII font is computer.flf by Mike Rosulek
- Built with typescript and vite
Development log
- Full game now available!3 days ago
- Jam end postmortem76 days ago
- Project status as end of jam approaches95 days ago
- Starting to feel like a game!Nov 23, 2024
- Tech stack exploration (with rot.js)Nov 10, 2024
- InceptionNov 06, 2024
Comments
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Does this end in the crystal forest after finding Balthar? I agree with your assessment on metroidvania and classic rogue graphics, it makes for an interesting and enjoyable combination.
Yes, it ends there for now, but more is coming soon. Check back or follow for updates on the full release. Thanks for playing!
I wanted to let you know that the full game is now released if you want to play the full version.
Awesome! I will give it a go :)