Broken Dawn - A short game about loss, acceptance, and cherished memories

What does it take to let go of the past?

Broken Dawn is a 2D side-scroller narrative adventure that tells the story of Riven and Alba, two guardians of a dying world looking to save it from an inevitable demise.

However, their story hides more than it seems: Alba's powers are strangely connected to the world's health, and as her surroundings surrender to decay... so does her own body.

Broken Dawn is a story of acceptance, loss, and cherished memories. Will Riven be able to save his dear Alba, or rather, will he have to save himself instead?

Controls

Key	Action
WASD	Movement
Spacebar	Jump/Double Jump
Shift (while in air)	Glide
Ctrl	Roll
E	Interact
Enter	Skip dialogue

Broken Dawn was created by a small team of 4 incredibly talented people in a week, as part of the Brackeys 2024.2 Game Jam.

Anthony L. Wolf - Game Design, Story, Programming Lead
nina nomori - Art & Animation Wizard, Co-Lead, Some Level Design
Siqi Liu - Core Developer & Programming Design, Co-Lead
Matthew Estrada - Composer, SFX

Known issue: Alba's timer does not freeze when reading dialogue - this unfortunately makes the experience feel a bit more rushed. Sadly we didn't manage to fix this before the submission :( but do take your time to read everything, the game is really very short and running out of time does not mean "game over", just a state transition!