A metroidvania where you're powerless to die.

Play Here: https://trh.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/games/powerless/

Controls

• Z: Jump. Hold to jump higher!
• X: Shoot.
• Left/Right Arrow Keys: Move left/right.
• Up Arrow Key: Aim up.

For the best experience, we recommend not reading past here before your
playthrough, or until you get stuck.

Okay, so it's also a metroidvania without powerups. The idea is that as you explore, you see interactions in the game between its limited features that you realise you can use in earlier areas to reach places you thought you would get a powerup for. Not having health be an issue allowed the abuse of knockback from getting hit as a full-blown puzzle mechanic. The absence of powerups hints towards non-lime doors also being a utility instead of actual doors.

Credits

The two-man team for this submission was Tom Harley and Duncan Bowyer.

Additionally, we used assets from the following:

• Music by Komiku from the Free Music Archive
• SFX from zapsplat.com