A Small Dream

Tiny light. Vast night. A gentle exploration through fading memories.

Made with LittleJS

🌙 Theme: SMALL — You are a small spark in a great dream. Gather fragments before the light goes quiet.

🎮 Play

• GitHub Pages: A Small Dream
• Local: see “Run locally” below

🕹️ Controls

• Move: Arrow Keys or WASD
• Continue (menus, act intro, cutscene): Enter / Space / Click
• Restart: R
• Skip cutscene: Enter / Space / Click

🧩 Gameplay

• Explore a soft-glow maze; memory orbs are scattered through its corridors.
• Collect white dream orbs to recall memories and progress through each act.
• Beware yellow negative dream orbs — they subtract 1 collected orb and reduce your remaining time by 5 seconds.
• There are three Acts with increasing orb counts, followed by a short ending.

🚀 Run locally

You need to serve the files over HTTP (browsers restrict some features on file://).

• Option 1 (VS Code): Install the “Live Preview” or “Live Server” extension and open index.html.
• Option 2 (Node): Install http-server, then from the project folder:

npm install -g http-server
http-server -p 8080

Open http://localhost:8080 in your browser.

📁 Project structure

• index.html — loads web fonts, the LittleJS engine, and the game script
• vendor/littlejs.min.js — local LittleJS engine build
• src/game.js — all game code and UI

✨ Notes

• No build step — the game runs as static HTML + JS
• Audio starts only after user interaction (browser policy)
• Modern desktop browsers recommended

📜 License

• Code: Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0) — see LICENSE
• Original game assets (art & narrative): Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) — see ASSETS-LICENSE
• Third‑party:
  • LittleJS — MIT License
  • Fonts (Cinzel Decorative, Cinzel, Nunito, Fira Code) — SIL Open Font License 1.1 (served via Google Fonts)

🙏 Credits

• Game design, code, and writing: Debmalya Pyne
• Built with LittleJS by Frank Force