EMBERWAKE

The sun is dead. You carry the last Ember. Burn brighter than the Gloam — or be swallowed by it.

Emberwake is a browser bullet-heaven survival roguelite in the vein of Vampire Survivors, built with PixiJS v8 (WebGL, batched ParticleContainers). You steer; your weapons fire on their own. Survive fifteen minutes of ever-denser hordes, draft a build from a pile of weapons, relics and Dark Pacts, fuse your best weapons into Ascended forms, and break the Eclipse Tyrant at the end of the night. Every sprite and sound effect is generated procedurally in code; the music is a mix of recorded CC0 tracks (every stage has one) and a procedural score.

▶ Play: https://aieatassam.github.io/emberwake/ (desktop, tablet and phone)

Contents

• How a run works · What makes it Emberwake
• Bearers · Weapons, Ascensions and relics · Dark Pacts
• Stages · Enemies and bosses · Random events and scenery
• Progression · Difficulty · Controls · Mobile
• Audio · Development · Balance bots · Quality gates
• Art style guide — the art source of truth (palette, contrast, silhouettes)

How a run works

1. Pick a Bearer and a stage, and optionally a Heat level, a difficulty and a Keepsake.
2. Move; everything else is automatic. Your starting weapon fires on its own. Defeated foes drop gems; collect them to level up.
3. Draft. Each level-up offers a choice of weapon upgrades, passive relics, and now and then a risky Dark Pact. You hold up to six weapons and six relics, and you can reroll, banish or skip cards.
4. Open chests. Elites, bosses, shrines and thieves drop chests. They are bronze, silver or gold by contents, violet when an Ascension is ready, each with a light beam you can see from across the screen. Opening one builds anticipation with a quickening heartbeat before the reveal.
5. Ascend. Bring two partner weapons to max level, open a chest, and they fuse into one Ascended weapon, freeing a slot.
6. Complete the stage objective, then break the Tyrant. Every stage has one visible goal (kindle waystones, quench forges, carry a flame, drain pools, escort an Acolyte, slay Sun-Bearers, light far waymarks, hold a lighthouse). It sits in a block at the bottom of the screen with a progress bar, and arrows point at it. Until it is done the Eclipse Tyrant is warded and cannot be killed: no blind runs.
7. Survive the boss timeline. The Brood Matron at 5:00, the Cinder Colossus at 10:00, the Gloam Herald at 12:30 and the Eclipse Tyrant at 15:00. Kill the Tyrant to win, then bank the victory or keep burning in Endless mode... until the Hollow comes for you.
8. Bank your cinders at the Hearth for permanent upgrades and new Bearers; new stages open as you complete objectives. Then go again.

Level-up draft	Opening a chest

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