Starter kit · action starter
Side Scroller
Create a fast-paced side-scrolling adventure with action combat and obstacles to overcome. Design enemies and environments around your hero and world, giving players an adventure that moves forward with every battle and breakthrough. Grapple enemies, steal weapons, hurl anything you can grab, and blast through explosive hand-painted battlefields in a relentless arcade side-scroller.
Controls: Controls are shown inside the game. Click the game screen once to give it keyboard focus.
The Side Scroller prompt
This is the exact prompt from the game’s package, word for word. Copy it, paste it into Manus and change any line to make the game your own.
Make a fast-paced side-scrolling adventure game: hurl yourself through explosive hand-painted battlefields where every grapple, stolen weapon, and hard-won breakthrough drives a relentless arcade journey forward. - **Core gameplay:** Build responsive run-and-gun action around a nimble hero who can grapple enemies, yank them into hazards, steal their weapons, grab and throw environmental objects, and blast through destructible obstacles. Keep movement fluid and combat aggressive, with readable enemy telegraphs, satisfying hit reactions, and escalating encounters. - **World and progression:** Create compact handcrafted stages with forward momentum, branching routes, vertical grapple opportunities, environmental traps, explosive set pieces, and clear end-of-level showdowns. Introduce enemies and hazards gradually, then combine them into demanding but fair combat gauntlets. - **Enemies and arsenal:** Design original foes suited to the hero’s world, including melee attackers, ranged gunners, armored brutes, flying threats, and minibosses with distinct patterns. Provide temporary stolen weapons and throwable props that reward improvisation rather than a fixed loadout. - **Controls and feedback:** Support precise movement, jumping, grappling, aiming, firing, weapon stealing, grabbing, throwing, dodging, and checkpoint restart. Make every action quick to learn and clearly communicated through animation, sound, particles, and impact feedback. - **Challenge and structure:** Use checkpoints, collectible rewards, optional risky paths, score-minded destruction, and short replayable stages. Balance arcade intensity with generous recovery windows so players understand why they were hit and how to improve. Give it a proper indie-game feel with a consistent original art style appropriate to the hand-painted explosive world, plus expressive animation, punchy particles, screen shake, and reactive sound design. Include game-like title, pause, settings, and results UI; show a short first-play controls tutorial; use English UI and text; support keyboard, mouse, and gamepad on desktop, plus landscape phone play. All characters, art, music, and text must be entirely original, with no licensed IP. Self-playtest the complete experience, fix broken controls, unfair collisions, soft locks, progression issues, and UI problems, then provide a polished playable preview.
Make your own version
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