A Day In The Life

One tap retro minimalist 8-bit pixel art action endless running game, with a small glance to the meaning of life. Made for the 2017 edition of js13kGames competition!

A Day In The Life is a one tap retro minimalist 8-bit pixel art action endless running game, with a small glance to the meaning of life.
Overcome daily life obstacles, while gradually losing your powers.
Can you survive the day?

The game is 100% free to play and open source.

* Play A Day In The Life right now!
* Play A Day In The Life on js13kgames website
* Check the source code fully commented on GitHub
* Play A Day In The Life on Facebook Messenger

How to play
A Day In The Life is a one-tap game!
-Desktop: Click to jump, click to double jump, click to dash and hold click to fly. Use M to mute all sounds.
-Mobile: Tap to jump, tap to double jump, tap to dash and hold tap to fly.

Goal
Developed with the aim of learning, experimenting and having fun with fellow developers.
Developed for the 2017 edition of js13kGames competition.
The main rule of the competition is to keep the final game package under 13,312 bytes.
The theme for the 2017 edition is “Lost”.

Technical information
Libs used:
-Kontra (used for game loop and assets preloading) https://straker.github.io/kontra/
-TinyMusic (as is) https://github.com/kevincennis/TinyMusic
-Pixel Font (adapted) https://github.com/PaulBGD/PixelFont

The code is fully commented, check it out for more information.
License
Code and game released under the MIT license.
See LICENSE file on GitHub for more information.

Results in js13kGames 2017:
11th out of 222 on Desktop catergory (won prize!) and 5th out of 53 on Mobile category (won prize!)!

Additional info:
during 2018 I’ve ported this game to Facebook Instant Games, so it is now playable directly from Facebook Messenger!
Check the link above!

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