Glaring Palace

Glaring Palace is a retrofuturistic story-driven precision platformer singleplayer with snappy controls and challenging obstacles.

STORY

It's 2509. An era has closed: mankind's first attempt to colonise Venus was a failure.

Space station Elliot 9 is now on it's way to our nearest planetary neighbour to provide it's last residents a safe new home.

The two-person crew expected to have an uneventful journey but that soon changes after they receive a strange distress signal.

CONTROLS

• keyboard:
  • move/jump: arrows
  • select/shoot (when gun is charged): space
  • pause: ESC
• controller
  • left/right: joystick/analogue direction buttons
  • jump: ✖
  • select/shoot (when gun is charged): ▢
  • pause: start button

FEATURES

• mobility:
  • double jump from the ground or jump twice when walking off an edge
  • wall slide
  • wall jump
• attack:
  • activate your gun for 10 seconds at charging stations
• optional assist mode:
  • activate an extra jump in the options menu if you get stuck

CREDITS

Glaring Palace is created by Attila Racz. This is my first-ever game inspired by DOS platformers like Crystal Caves and the excellent pixel art tutorials of Miniboss: https://blog.studiominiboss.com/pixelart

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