Distant Paradise
Distant Paradise is a short sci-fi metroidvania.
Explore the mysterious temple and its surroundings to find new movement abilities that will allow you to reach more places. But be careful, many monsters roam these halls... Can you find your way out? And can you uncover the secret purpose of this place?
Story
Sent from Earth to scout the outer reaches of space, you crash-land on the planet Soror.
Under its dead black sky, you find a mysterious temple built by an ancient civilization.
Explore it! It may hide the key to your survival...
About this game
Distant Paradise was made in a month for the Metroidvania Month 28 game jam. For this entry, I wanted to experiment with a web build, so I created a new engine from scratch for the occasion.
Coming up with both new tech and a brand new game in just a month was definitely a challenge. This is why I call this game a "microvania": it's a short, fun adventure that can be completed in an hour. It's not as feature-rich as my other games, but it does run in your web browser!
The story also acts as a coda for my previous games, Silent Paradise and Lost Paradise, though you don't need to have played them before, they're all standalone stories.
Instructions
The game can be played either in your web browser or as a downloadable Windows executable. In both cases, a gamepad is highly recommended.
Here's the mapping for a QWERTY keyboard:
(It's not currently possible to change this mapping but that's something I would like to add in the future.)
If you encounter any issue with the web version, I encourage you to download the Windows build instead.
Known Firefox issue
If you use Firefox and get an error message telling you the game can't access local storage and won't be able to save your progress, right clicking on the game and selecting "This Frame > Open Frame in New Tab" may fix the issue:
The game has been tested without issue with Chrome.
Download
Install instructions
Unzip the archive and start "DistantParadise.exe".
Or use the Itch App to automatically get update in the future!
Development log
- New game alert: Distant Paradise is out!18 hours ago
Comments
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nice game as usual, even though the control scheme makes it obvious that this was done as a challenge and not as elaborate and fine tuned as msot of your other games.
doing the jump dash block-trigger stuff in the right order and quickly enough sure required some muscle memory to built :-)
Author did state in the instructions that a gamepad is highly suggested. Keyboard is almost user friendly with a couple of quite challenging areas. Definitely muscle memory is required!
I did finish it with a keyboard but that jump dash block-trigger wasn't a lot of fun. Almost as bad was the teleport jump dash stuff in some rooms but still manageable.
really great game , just wish the jump key was space !
There is some odd behavior in Chrome where the up/down arrow scrolls the page. FireFox I could not get the game to load. I just went ahead and downloaded it. Looking forward to it :)
That's weird indeed, I never encountered those issues with the machines and browsers I tested it on. The Chrome issue can probably be avoided if you switch to fullscreen in the settings. Do you get an error message from Firefox?
Anyway, that's why there's still the option to download it. I hope you enjoy the game! ;)
No errors in the console in FireFox. Just get the "A script on this page is slowing down the browser..." notification. On multiple refreshes it loaded the menu screen but with no images or fonts.
Downloadable works fantastically.
After getting to the room where you have to jump, switch blocks and dash multiple times, I understand the controller recommendation. That took quite a lot of attempts on keyboard but is do-able.
This is really nicely polished. Really intriguing story and outside of the jump/switch/dash room movement and control is nicely crisp.
Good luck in the jam!