On desktop: ← → move, Space jump, X shoot, P pause, M music.
On desktop: ← → move, Space jump, X shoot, P pause, M music.
A pixel platformer about a woman who crossed twelve worlds because her boyfriend “just popped into the server room for a minute”.
On Friday at 5 p.m. Byte said: “I’m shipping one tiny fix and then we’re going to dinner.” Then the lights went out in the flat, and smoke shaped like a heart drifted out of the socket.
Maria grabbed a thermos of coffee, put the insoles back in her boots and followed the cable. Twelve worlds later, someone is still typing.
The coffee is going cold, but it will wait.
Maria and the Missing Coder is a free platformer that runs in your browser - nothing to install, no account to create. You run, jump, collect coffee beans and stomp Buglets. It is built for phones first: big thumb-sized buttons, two-finger support and crisp pixels at any screen size.
This is an original production. The graphics are generated in code, pixel by pixel, the sounds are synthesised live through Web Audio, and every character, name, world and story beat is ours. The game is inspired by the classic platformers of the 1980s - by the genre, not by any particular title - and it is not affiliated with any existing brand or company. Details in the Terms of Service.
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