Visions of Ethereal

Gamepad recommended! D-Pad moves, "X" for Attack/Flame, "A" for jump and "B" to toggle ethereal vision on or off.

For Keyboard use WASD + J/K/L (Atack/Jump/Ethereal Vision), another alternative (less recommended) is to use the arrow keys with R/T/Y (Ethereal Vision/Jum/Attack)

Visions of Ethereal is a platform game that seeks to balance puzzle, precision and action, trying to emulate some of the dark and desolate atmosphere of gothic games like Demon's Crest and Castlevania. The on and off mechanic is linked to Ethereal Vision, a special ability of the protagonist Visandra.

2023 10 11 Update

Performance improvements
Options menu
Extra stage
Message at game completion
Some new sprites for scenery elements
Fixed several bugs
Experimental Mobile Control

Tips:

1. Press down quickly to drop platforms.
2. Visandra can use her ghostblade and ethereal fire upwards as well (but doesn't attack downwards)
3. Visandra does not invoke her ethereal vision when she is in a risky place. Experienced using vision elsewhere or jumping, but watch out for spikes.
4. Creatures corrupt the ethereal field of vision, hampering its use.
5. Locked doors have torches that let you know how many fairies in the scene need to be filled with ethereal fire energy.
6. Faeries can hide beyond their sight, be wary of suspicious formations.

The game has 11 levels and loops (sorry about that, we almost lost our Gamejam subscription)

Ongoing updates:

• Adding information about controls
• Pause and menu addition
• Settings in music production
• Bug fixes

Planned updates:

• a few more internships
• Improve some animations
• SpeedyRun Mode
• Addition of Options
• Updating/addition of graphics
• Long-term plans: Quadruple the size of the game and turn it into a commercial project. 

~Lore Context~

Visandra is a girl of a special race capable of confronting corrupted creatures, her special talent is to observe what lies beyond the veil of mundane matter and to be able to interact with receptacles of a mysterious primordial energy. She was imprisoned by sages in an underground complex of an ancient civilization, which today is taken over by creatures and mysterious ethereal mechanisms. The interest of the sages was to spoil the young woman with challenges to use her as a tool, or else, discard her as a despicable being incapable of serving the purposes of these unscrupulous priests.

 

Know some bugs:

• Eventually some action key may repeat frantically, just press and release this key and it will return to normal.
• Some objects have the wrong layer placement, and therefore appear wrong on the screen.
• Some people have reported issues with specific browsers such as lag or short jumps, try another web browser if this is your case.
• The game does not pause or return to the title screen.
• Gamepad sticker is not configured.
• Bad physics when character hits head on ceiling.

Credits

Lukan Peixe
Programer, Game Design, Level Design and Music Composer
@LukanPeixe https://twitter.com/LukanPeixe 

Robert Scheibe
Level Design, Producer Assistant and some Pixelart Objects/Screens
@robert_scheibe https://twitter.com/robert_scheibe

Gatiro/Hallowtiro
Pixel Artist (tilesets and most of decorative objects)
@Fruticulas https://twitter.com/Fruticulas 

DaviMoartes
Pixel Artist (Heroine, Blade Attack an Enemy Skull)
@DMoartes https://twitter.com/DMoartes

- "Thanks to Playing" / "Obrigado pro jogar!"