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GORGOION
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About the game
GORGOION is a small metroidvania: one large, connected world that you open up bit by bit as you find new abilities. You play a lone explorer stuck on a mysterious planet, armed with a blaster and looking for a way out. Early on you free a tiny fairy called Peri, who joins you, lights up the darkest corners of the caves and later learns to throw fire and ice.
The world is split into areas with their own colours and music, including a volcanic region full of lava, and a map at the side of the screen fills in as you explore. Upgrades are scattered around it: a double jump, a water jet that puts out fires and hardens lava into rock, and a rocket launcher that breaks fragile walls. Peri's fire burns flammable obstacles and melts ice, while her ice turns water into solid blocks and freezes enemies in place. Many paths can only be passed by combining the two of you, so you will often switch between the explorer and the fairy to get through.
Playing it here
GORGOION was made for TIC-80, a fantasy console: an imaginary 1980s-style computer with a 240 by 136 screen and 16 colours, for which independent developers write new games. MFauzan created it for two game jams, MashUp Game Jam 2024 and Super Metroidvania Month 25, and kept updating it afterwards. It runs here in the official TIC-80 web player. Click Play, press Z on the title screen and choose New Game.
Touching a checkpoint refills your health and saves the game in this browser: your position, your powers and the map. Choose Load Game on the title screen to carry on from there. Esc opens the TIC-80 menu. A gamepad works directly, and on touch screens an on-screen D-pad and buttons appear.
Controls
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Left / Right arrows | walk |
| Z (A button) | jump; press again in the air for a double jump once you have it; confirm on the title screen |
| X (B button) | shoot; close a message (Z works too) |
| Up arrow | fire a rocket (after finding the rocket launcher) |
| A (X button), held | spray water (after finding the water jet) |
| S (Y button) | switch between the explorer and Peri (after freeing her) |
| Arrow keys (Peri) | fly the fairy around the screen |
| X / A (Peri) | fire power / ice power, once she has learned them |
| Up / Down arrows (title screen) | choose Load Game or New Game |
| Esc | TIC-80 menu |
A few things worth knowing
Checkpoints are your lifeline. You have three hearts, enemies take one each time they touch you, and some hazards are fatal at once. A defeat sends you back to the last checkpoint you touched, so step on every new one you find.
Frozen enemies are harmless. Peri's ice stops an enemy in its tracks, and while it is frozen you can walk right into it without getting hurt.
Look again with new powers. Flammable obstacles, fragile walls, fires, ice and pools of water are all locks waiting for the right ability. When you pick up something new, think back to the places you could not get past.
Credits and licence
GORGOION was created by MFauzan, who made the code, the graphics, the sounds and the music. It is free software under the MIT licence, chosen by the author in the header of the cartridge published on tic80.com. It runs here in the TIC-80 web player (MIT licence). The licence text is linked from this page.