Controlled Burn

Made for the Pirate Software Game Jam 2024

Your goal is to burn the flag at the end of the level.

Controls

AD or arrows, for left/right

W or up, on vines and cave mouths

S or down, to look down

Increase window size with P and decrease with O

Double fps cap with M and half with N, default cap is 120 

You can pause by pressing ESC

The story, if you are interested:

The year is currently 20xx. Humanity has, through unknown means, successfully reached CO2 levels from before the Industrial Revolution in just one week. Nobody is quite sure what the reason for this is; Politicians are rushing in to take credit for their policies being the most impactful. What no one knows, with the exception of our protagonist, is that the lizard people (elite politicians) have conspired with the creatures of the forest (very evil), to reach the climate goal. Our greatly intelligent protagonist looks at the climate data and sees that the CO2 levels have dropped by 50%, meaning that in another week, if it drops by 50% again we would be at 0% and the earth would freeze over. By using their unrivaled intellect, our protagonist is now the only person with the knowledge that humanity is plummeting into another ice age. They couldn’t tell this to the media, because the media is controlled by the cat people (the most evil) and they would surely be after our protagonist. Therefore the only rational thing to do is to single handedly save the world by stopping the forest demons and burning lots and lots of CO2.