FlameRunner

Have fun with this game built for the Xogot Game Jam 4!

The goal is to pass the flame on to the next runner before it dies.🔥🏃‍♂️

PSA: A bug (fixed in future version) causes so you have to enable controller mode and click on the screen to begin instead of pressing space.

Controls:

• Use the arrow keys or WASD to move/jump. 
• Shift is run, but burns your flame faster
• x will fire a flame shot to destroy bosses
• Some bosses may need to be weakened with a special shot fired by pressing/holding down c or right clicking...

For some reason itch.io is messing up the mobile version...I have it working okay on Xogot iOS, but not on itch.io.

I used assets from Kenney as follows

• New Platformer Pack 1.1 — tiles, the 5 runner characters, enemies, backgrounds, core SFX
• Particle Pack — flame, fireball, smoke, and spark textures
• Light Masks 1.0 — soft radial masks for the flame light and boss lights
• Impact Sounds — boss hit, death, splash, crusher
• Interface Sounds — menu clicks, confirmation, the "denied" dry click

I used Claude and Codex to vibe code the project on macOS (thanks to the wonderful `xo` skill), verifying functionality on iOS with the Xogot iOS app. I'm both amazed at how well LLMs can do and it was also very frustrating at times.😅