OPEN SOURCE · BY Ian Chiao

Stolen Sword

Drag, aim and dash through a bamboo-and-mountain adventure in pursuit of a stolen sword.

4 chapters · Mouse or touch

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Press Play to load the game from Joywisp. No external game service is loaded.

How to play

  1. Wait for the title to appear, then tap or click to begin.
  2. Press and drag backwards to aim. Release to dash in the opposite direction; follow the first chapter’s tutorial.
  3. Defeat enemies and reach the next area. Landing restores your dash. Tap story captions to continue.

Controls & screen size

Mouse or touch: press, drag backwards and release to dash. New game clears this game’s saved checkpoint and tutorial. Restart player reloads the saved checkpoint.

A little tip

Holding a drag slows time for aiming. Look for a safe landing before releasing.

Creator, source & licence

Stolen Sword is by Ian Chiao, hosted here under the MIT licence. It is a third-party open-source game, adapted for Joywisp; it is not a Joywisp original or an endorsed partnership.

Joywisp adds isolated saves, pointer cancellation, responsive sizing, New game and graceful audio fallback. The sound generator is updated to ZzFX Micro v1.4.0; the four original chapters remain.

Source version: e5aa6e06ce50. The adapted source is in Joywisp’s repository.

Your game data

Stores a chapter, wave and tutorial flag locally under joywisp:stolen-sword:v1:. If storage is blocked, play continues without saving.

Joywisp privacy · Closing or stopping the player ends its running scripts and sound.

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