Pointy Hat

A pointy-hat wizard is rebuilding a castle that blew apart and floats in the sky. Run, jump and climb across a small island, lay a rune in mid-air and stand on it, drag heavy blocks around with telekinesis, and put the castle back together one shard at a time. It's a 3D collectathon in the spirit of the old platformers, with a chunky PS1 look: low resolution, dithering and fog.

What's in this prototype

• One island: a hub with the castle ruins, a Village, a Forest and a Dungeon.
• Seven castle shards to recover, plus one bonus shard for the crystal hunters. Every shard you bring back rebuilds a bit more of the castle, and the last one raises the tower you have to climb.
• 77 crystals scattered around the island.
• Two spells: the support rune, which sticks to a surface and becomes a platform (or pulls you toward it), and telekinesis, which grabs blocks and carries them where you need them.
• Three hearts: every fall costs one, and with none left you go back to the start of the island, keeping everything you collected.
• English and Portuguese (Brazil).
• About 10 minutes to reach the tower. Windows only.

Controls

The main spell button does what your aim says: lay a rune on a surface, pull yourself to your own rune, or grab a block. The second button undoes the spell. You can see all of this in the Controls screen in the menu.

	Keyboard and mouse	Controller
Move	WASD	Left stick
Jump	Space	A
Camera	Mouse	Right stick
Spell	Right mouse button or E	RB
Undo spell	Q	LB
Move a grabbed block closer or farther	Mouse wheel	D-pad up / down
Pause	Esc	Start

A bigger game is on the way

This is a prototype of a bigger game. The full version, with more islands, bosses and new powers, is headed to Steam. The 3D models will be original, made for this game. Everything here (the name, the look, the puzzles) can still change.

Tell me what you think

Feedback is the whole point of this release. Did the jump feel good? Did you get stuck somewhere? Did the camera get in your way? Leave a comment on this page and tell me what worked and what didn't. Every comment gets read.

Credits

• Game, code and sound effects: Frederico Xavier
• 3D models and characters: KayKit by Kay Lousberg (CC0)
• Sound effects synthesized for this game
• Music (all CC0): "The Field of Dreams" by pauliuw, "Medieval: Harvest Season" and "Medieval: Minstrel Dance" by RandomMind, "Within The Abandoned Castle" by Spring Spring
• Font: Silkscreen by Jason Kottke (SIL OFL 1.1)
• Made with Godot Engine