DEMAKE 86 - set on a METEOROID

A controller is highly recommended. Headphones are encouraged. Download for best performance and for rumble support.  Visit the Demake86 homepage for more information.

Press JUMP and SHOOT to start!

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CONTROLS 

	Xbox	PlayStation	Keyboard
Jump	A	⨉	Space / Z / L
Shoot / Bomb (once discovered)	X	◻	X / K
Ball (once discovered)	B	O	Shift / J / ; (semicolon)
Move and Aim	D-Pad	D-Pad	WASD, arrow keys
Aim diagonally	LB	L1	C / I / Q / F
Prime missile	RB	R1	B / U / R

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DEMAKE86 or the Legally Distinct Action Adventure Platforming Game set on a METEOROID is a tiny Metroidvania, in homage to an original from August 6th, 1986. This game is a labor of love and is created with absolutely no AI.

The METEOROID is only 8^6 pixels: 8x8 pixels in a tile, 8x8 tiles in a room, 8x8 rooms in the entire map! It's a tiny, densely packed, and unforgiving labyrinth! Speedrunners welcome - can you beat it in 86 seconds?

No saving, no refills! Tread carefully and make your missiles count. 

Features include beam stacking, quick morph, useless green-energy - green energy isn't even tracked! - Sequence breaks! Diagonal aiming!

Everything is legally distinct! Morph ball, what? It's the tuck-ball. Energy-tank who? That's an E-vial. Planet Zebes? This is a meteoroid orbiting Planet Zenith, silly!

Note: There is little music during the game. This is not a bug. This is an intentional auditory design decision around the interplay of sound and silence. It is also because Nintendo's lawyers are very, very scary.

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THE MISSION:

You are Relan Gras, the legendary protector and sole inheritor of the now-extinct mysterious ancient Corvus species. Your purpose is to create a true peace in space. Many believe you to be a myth.

Orphaned as a child, you were saved and raised by the Corvus on Planet Zenith, a natural fortress planet blanketed in meteoroids. You travel the galaxy at light-speed, cursed by relativity to live a solitary life, dedicating your life to ending intergalactic threats as they arise.

You've just received a emergency transmission: The intergalactic paramilitary bandit ring known as the Neolegion have unearthed the ancient parasitic life-form known as SETONA, discovered in the labyrinthine fortress-ruins of the largest Meteoroid in the orbit of your homeworld.

The transmission suggests the Neolegion base is hosted by their ringleader, the mechanical life-vein known as the Minister Baroness. She is joined by the corpulent cave-dwelling monster Kemp and Relan's personal nemesis, the genocidal fire-breathing Reagan.

If the Neolegion were to tame the Setona, the shadow of their imperial rule would cover all of intergalactic society. You never expected your work would bring you home. ?

You never expected you'd ever return to your homeworld, let alone to find an existential threat brewing in your own backyard. Do you have what it takes to quell the evil which waits below the surface?

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Content warnings: This game contains themes of horror and graphic depictions of violence, including pixelated gore and blood. 

Credits: Created with absolutely no AI. All assets and code created from scratch by opossumcarrion, except for (1) a public domain skull, (2) a public domain recording of propaganda narrated by Ronald Reagan in 1986, (3) Androidarts' fantastic Famicube palette, (4) ending line work by artist Rae Whiteley.

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