Dungeon Advance
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About this game
Dungeon Advance is a short platform game about escaping a brick-lined dungeon. The opening area gives you a safe ledge, a sign and a view of the pillars across the first gap. This archived GBA edition focuses on movement and jumping; the creator states that enemies were removed from this build.
Press Enter at the title to start. Move with the left and right arrow keys, and press Z to jump. When you are near a sign, use X to read it and advance the text. These are the game’s B and A buttons respectively, so the jump button here is Z. Enter opens the pause screen; press it again to return to the level.
Try a jump on the starting platform before crossing a gap. Read the signs along the route, but do not assume every message is helpful. The game was created for GBA Jam 2021; the goal is to reach the dungeon exit.
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Quick tips
Practice the jump height on the first safe ledge.
Move near a sign before pressing X.
Treat the signs as part of the dungeon’s puzzles, not guaranteed safe advice.
- Enter
- Title: start; during play: pause or resume
- Left / Right
- Move across the platforms
- Z
- Jump (GBA B)
- X
- Read a nearby sign and advance its text (GBA A)
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Browser play is available for this entry. Official project references are listed below.
- Distribution
- GPL-3.0 code / CC BY 4.0 assets
- Attribution
- Dungeon Advance by phi1997; GB Studio Platformer Tilesets by Elvies; GB Studio Dungeon Tileset 8x8 by Rekkimaru; FreeSerif, Press Start 2P, and Unique fonts.
- Browser player
- EmulatorJS · Browser play
- Added to archive
- 2026-07-24
- Official references
- Source code
- Download open-source code packageSource code only; this is not a game ROM download.