What Remains Is an Echo

In "What Remains is an Echo," you play as Echo, an alien explorer tasked to find evidence of life amidst the ruins of a dying planet. Navigate this strange and haunting terrain of perpetual sunset by climbing, jumping, gliding, and soaring through wind thermals past neon lights and ravaged ruins. 

As you travel, collect and listen to 12 cassettes filled with stories from people before the end of the world. What will you rediscover during your journey into the past?

This game was made for the Buddy Up Winter 2024 Game Jam.

CONTROLS

• Press the left and right keys to move left and right.
• Press space bar to jump.
• Press space bar twice to glide, especially from one tall platform to another, or when catching an updraft.
• Press escape or backspace to leave menus.
• Press the E key to open your inventory, and combine items by clicking and dropping one item on another. Combine the items you find to solve new puzzles! You can also recycle an item back into its components using the recycler.
• Click on objects like doors and grates to automatically use the appropriate tool, if you have it.
• You can replay the cassettes you've gathered by clicking on their icon in the Cassettes tab of your inventory.

CREDITS

Duplicitous Games // Level design.

Joey Kloepfer // Technical sound design, subtitle implementation.

Lynn-Isle // Visual, character, and environmental design.

Melmi // Programming, level design.

Sunfirewings (Shana E. Hadi) // Narrative, level, and visual design.

In addition:

• Most visual, audio, and technical assets were made by the team! : )
• Human voices played by the team.
• Alien voice played by Lauri Kloepfer.
• Background parallax assets: https://free-game-assets.itch.io/free-exclusion-zone-tileset-pixel-art 
• Font source: https://managore.itch.io/m6x11