Controls

  • Left/Right arrow keys: Movement
  • Up arrow key: Jump
  • X: Use item
  • Z: Cycle items
  • P: Pause menu

Tips

  • Don't forget to dash!
  • You can pick up items to reposition them
  • The cannon can be flipped around by prodding it
  • You can restart the current level by running into a trap or from the pause menu
  • All levels can be unlocked from the pause menu if you want to skip some

Note for iOS/Safari users

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Instructions

Escort NPCs through often perilous levels, through snow and ice, outer space and beyond! And then try to do it faster.

About the Game

Made for the New Year, New Skills Game Jam by Bitter Sails Games. The current version is the gamejam version. If you liked the game, please comment and it will encourage me to continue working on it!

Credits

Thanks to Lazy Devs Academy for their awesome Pico-8 tutorials

Thanks for playing the game! :)

More information

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escortquest_linux.zip 748 kB
escortquest_osx.zip 3 MB
escortquest_raspi.zip 2 MB
escortquest_windows.zip 988 kB

Development log

Comments

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Gehhenna104 days ago (3 edits)

game is very hard.  Not the good kind of hard where you feel that you are resposible for your own death but the kind that when you die it is just iritating. I m not writing this because I played the whole game. Im writig this beause Im really angry at this game.  Im on 3 level the guy in yellow keep faling to the water and I cannot cach him

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Broken Sceptre Games104 days ago (1 edit)

Thanks for trying the game. I agree the 3rd level is quite hard - it’s easier if you dash towards the yellow NPC. There’s also an option in the pause menu to unlock all the levels if you’d like to skip any of them. Appreciate the feedback!

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