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The King
Is Missing

You are the king. Nobody believes you.

You wake up in a cell under your own palace, wearing a crown. Upstairs, everyone is looking for the king. Down here, nobody believes you are him. Not the crow selling soup, not the door that wants to know who's there, and not Death, who is small and lets you sit with him a while.

The King Is Missing is a side-scrolling platformer in the spirit of the old Prince of Persia games. Grab ledges, dodge spikes, pull the right lever and fight whatever lives down there. Pick up odd weapons and odder rings, gather memories to learn new moves, and work out from the notes left behind how a king ends up in his own cellar.

Change log

The King Is Missing v0.1 updated

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Chapter One: The Undercroft

The King Is Missing version 0.1

The first release is Chapter One, The Undercroft. You wake under the palace with a crown on your head and have to climb, fight and think your way up through seven rooms, with loot, skills, a shop run by a crow and a boss waiting in the throne room.

Additions

  • Added Chapter One: seven rooms under the palace, from a locked cell to the throne room.
  • Added platforming: run, jump, grab ledges and climb, drop through ledges. Spikes and pits cost a heart.
  • Added fighting with a two-swing combo, against skeletons with shields, bomb-throwing goblins, spore-spitting mushrooms, diving eyes, leaping hounds and drifting fire skulls.
  • Added puzzles: pressure plates, a crate to push, a door with a question, three levers under three mirrors, and a wall that lies.
  • Added weapons:
    • Bent Scepter
    • Butter Knife of Office
    • A Sword Called Opinion
    • The Spare Axe
  • Added rings:
    • Mild Regret
    • That Hums
    • Magpie
    • Other Hand
  • Added cloaks:
    • Royal Blue
    • Moth-Eaten (lets you glide)
    • Many Pockets
    • Tin-Lined
  • Added 8 skills, bought with memories: roll, double jump, wall jump, a third combo swing, the charged Royal Tantrum, coin magnet, Stubborn and Seconds.
  • Added the crow's shop: extra hearts, whetstones, soup bowls, cloaks and one memory.
  • Added soup, which heals.
  • Added a journal that collects 6 notes and 5 memories.
  • Added a boss fight to end the chapter. Afterwards you can keep exploring.
  • Added on-screen buttons for phones.

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