Dust & Badge

A side-scrolling pixel-art western. You're the sheriff of Redemption Gulch, and "Silver" Jack Calloway just robbed the bank and rode west. Follow him across the badlands on foot, loot abandoned homesteads, fight with your fists, keep yourself fed and rested, and survive the nights.

Plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No build step, no libraries.

Play

• Locally: open index.html in a browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari).
• Online: turn on GitHub Pages (repo Settings → Pages → Deploy from a branch → main / root), then play at https://<your-username>.github.io/<repo-name>/.

Controls

Action	Keyboard	Phone/tablet
Walk	A / D or ← →	◀ ▶
Run	Shift (hold)	RUN (toggle)
Jump	W / Space	JUMP
Punch	J	PUNCH
Block	K (hold)	BLK (hold)
Talk / enter / search	E, or click/tap the thing	USE, or tap
Get on/off horse, whistle	H	HORSE
Make camp	C	CAMP
Saddlebag	I	BAG
Pause	Esc	II
Mute	M	(pause menu)

Tip: block right as an enemy strikes for a PERFECT block, which leaves it dazed.

Art style

Everything is drawn on one chunky pixel grid: each art pixel is 2x2 screen pixels. Buildings, horses, the sky and the characters are drawn that way directly; other art goes through U.chunky() (in js/util.js), and positions snap to the grid with U.snap(). New art should do the same.

Music & sound

Chiptune music (OpenGameArt.org) and 8-bit sound effects (Juhani Junkala), all CC0. See assets/CREDITS.md. Sound effects need the game to be served over the web (GitHub Pages or any local server); when opened straight from a file, the game falls back to its built-in synthesised effects.

Project docs

• docs/VISION.md: the full game design
• docs/ROADMAP.md: build stages

Code map

File	What it does
js/game.js	Main loop, rules, menus, saving, lighting
js/entities.js	Player, enemies, townsfolk, campfire
js/world.js	Road layout: towns, houses, enemy spots, scenery
js/rooms.js	All interiors: town buildings and abandoned buildings
js/horse.js	Horse art and riding
js/chars.js	People: repaints the character pack per look (hats, vests, badges, skirts...), the sheriff customiser looks
js/charframes.js	Character pack frames as data (generated by tools/pack_chars.py)
js/sprites.js	Creature pixel art (text grids)
js/buildings.js	Town and abandoned building exteriors, street dressing
js/town.js	Town life: animals, smoke, schedules, greetings
js/props.js	Cacti, rocks, signs, small props
js/backgrounds.js	Sky by time of day, parallax layers
js/audio.js	Chiptune music + sound effects
js/ui.js	HUD, dialogue, menus, title screen
js/input.js	Keyboard, touch and click input