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Akwaaba Monsters

A handheld-style creature game set in tropical Ghana. Walk from Aduma village to the Bosua gym: choose a starter, cross the Pra river, stop an illegal gold mine that is poisoning it, and beat Nana Kofi for the River Stone Badge.

Controls. Arrow keys or WASD to walk. Z or Enter to talk and to confirm. X or Escape for the menu. M mutes the sound. On a phone, use the pad under the screen, or drag on the screen to walk and tap what you want to reach.

A bigger screen. Press Fullscreen and the game fills the window, with the pad floating faintly over it. On a phone held upright the pad sits at the bottom of the screen, in reach of a thumb, and the game takes the full width.

Your save. The game saves itself to this browser as you play. Nothing is sent anywhere. Open the menu and choose Save to download a copy of the save as a .json file, then load that file on another device to carry on where you stopped.

Everything here is made in code. There are no image files and no audio files. Every creature, tile and letter is drawn from a list of shapes when the page loads, and every note is played by the browser.

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