Mirage

A small desert platformer that runs inside Joshua Tree, a computer built from scratch.

The spring on the mesa has gone quiet and the town of Dry Creek is out of water. Wren takes Elder Pina's walking staff and climbs through a canyon, a cave and a salt flat to the Dust King, who is sitting on the spring.

mirage.jaybulb.com → Play it on the page.

Features

• Five rooms, one story, about ten minutes: Dry Creek, Red Canyon, the Cholla Caves, the Salt Flats and the Mesa.
• Our own pixel art, characters and story. Nothing borrowed.
• A native app in Joshua Tree on the PC build and the Raspberry Pi, and the same C compiled to WebAssembly for the landing.
• Played to the end by Duke, the games autopilot. Joshua Tree's checks replay Duke's run and must finish in the same spot on the host and in the OS.
• The 20 second ad.

Where the code lives

The game is part of Joshua Tree: user/mirage_core.h is the world and the story, user/mirage.c draws it. This repo holds the landing and the web build. ./build.sh compiles those same files for the browser, and ./deploy.sh ships the page.

Play

Key
A and D, or the arrows	walk
W or Up	jump
Space	swing the staff
S, Down or Enter	talk, read a sign, turn the page

On a phone the page shows buttons instead.