Blade of Kings

A 2D side-view action platformer that runs in a single HTML file. No build step, no dependencies: open cave-runner.html in a browser and play.

You are Sir Thraine, a knight who trained among the assassins and whose father was a mage. Monsters dragged you into the dark. You wake in a cave with nothing but your daggers.

Play

Open cave-runner.html (or serve the folder and open index.html).

	Keyboard / mouse	Controller
Move	arrows / WASD	left stick, d-pad
Jump	Z / Space	A
Attack	click or X, aimed at the mouse	RT
Uppercut / ground slam	aim up / aim down in the air	right stick up / down
Dodge roll	right click / Shift	B
Throw dagger	F / R	LB
Vanish	V / G	LT
Charge	C	X / RB
Rage smash	Q / middle click	Y
Stone powers	1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Talk / use	E / Up	d-pad up
Map, items, skills	Tab	Back
Pause	Esc	Start
Music	M

The run

1. Clear the road to the village and meet the Old Miner.
2. Kill the dragon blocking the road east.
3. Take the four elemental stones from the giant, the ice dragon, the fire dragon and the stone golem. Each guardian needs its own strategy; steel alone does not work on any of them.
4. Climb the cloud stair and ask the ancient kings of Driftfall for the Blade of Kings. They send you after three raiding dragons first, and then after the giant that steals the blade out from under them.
5. Go down the pit in the deep hall, through a keep of rope-and-door puzzles, and end the mage.

Every stone becomes an ability on a hotkey. Levels past 80 grant skill points for a ten-skill tree.

Layout

cave-runner.html    the whole game: engine, art helpers, audio, content
index.html          redirect, so GitHub Pages serves the game at the repo root
sprites/            sprite sheets and source art
sounds/             dragon fire
music/              theme

Saves

Three named save slots in localStorage, plus an autosave every five minutes. Saving is blocked during boss fights.