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This is an early vertical slice of AshLand a Metroidvania featuring exploration, combat, puzzles, and progression systems.

The demo currently includes:

• 2 explorable areas
• Combat encounters and enemy variety
• A boss fight
• Puzzles
• Hidden areas and treasures
• Portals for traversal
• A shop system
• Unlockable abilities
• World Map

Feedback helps way more. Even small things matter.

Thanks again for playing ❤️

Try it here:

https://gamesbyspinola.itch.io/ashland

thank you very much escape-pixel !

Welcome to the Ashland Pre-Alpha Demo. This early build gives players a first look at the core systems and gameplay direction of the project. The game is still in development, and this demo is meant to showcase some of the main mechanics while gathering feedback from players.

What You Can Try in This Demo

Exploration & Map Ashland focuses heavily on exploration. Players can move through connected areas, discover hidden paths, and learn how the world is structured. Curiosity is rewarded, and some locations may hide secrets or useful upgrades.

Enemies & Combat - During your journey you will encounter different enemies. Each one behaves differently, encouraging players to observe patterns and adapt their strategy. Combat is still being refined, so balance and difficulty may change in future versions.

Upgrades - While exploring, players may find upgrades that expand their abilities. These upgrades are designed to gradually unlock new possibilities and playstyles as the game progresses.

Puzzles - Some parts of the world include environmental puzzles that require observation and experimentation. These sections add variety to exploration and combat.

Important Note

This is a Pre-Alpha build, meaning many things are unfinished. You may encounter:

• Bugs 
• Placeholder visuals or sounds
• Unbalanced mechanics
• Incomplete features

These are all expected at this stage of development.

Feedback

If you decide to try the demo, feedback is greatly appreciated. Your thoughts about gameplay, controls, difficulty, and overall experience can help improve the game as development continues.

Thank you for checking out Ashland and helping support the project this early in development.

You can try it here:
https://gamesbyspinola.itch.io/ashland

Pre-alpha Demo Teaser

hey mate I use this asset in a game I´m developing you can see it and try it here: (you can watch the trailer)
https://gamesbyspinola.itch.io/ashland

I might even buy more of your assets for the game.
Cheers

wow !! love it 

awesome as always! love the npc

hi ! you can use it with no problem.
A mention would be cool but feel free to use it

just got it !! Cheers

pipsqueak! Cool

super awesome !! 

amazing work it´s awesome!

super awesome! Just got it! Do you plan on adding some animations to this character? A ladder climb and some crouching would be super nice. I´ve managed to make an attakc up and down with the jump and fall with stick animations. cheers

so cool

Amazing as always just got it! It will fit perfectly for something I´m working on! Cheers mate

beautiful...

Hey everyone Waki & the lost spirits is finally released you can download or try the demo on your browser and you can get the full game on the game page. 

https://gamesbyspinola.itch.io/waki-and-the-lost-spirits

I hope you have fun with it!

Waki & the Lost Spirits is a 2D action platformer with some tastes of a metroidvania game.

In this game you will explore the forest, fight enemies, solve puzzles, complete challenges, beat some bosses in order to save the lost spirits of the forest.

Use Mana to cast spells or to heal when needed, fight bosses and gain abilities so you can be able to succeed in this journey.

Gain abilities such as the Double Jump that will help you get around the forest as well a Dash that you can use to avoid damage and pass through some rough areas of the forest. 

Fight your enemies with the Spirit Slashes (melee attacks) or use some mana to cast some Poiwerfull Spells or to Heal.

Venture yourself as Waki in this small yet cool adventure...

I hope you have a good time playing it!

really cool character !!! as always

amazing

Hi everyone so I´ve been away for a while from the developing of my game Waki and the Lost Spirits due to work and things in my personal life but I´m very happy to announce that meanwhile I was able to get back to my developments and I put together a new Demo available for free for everyone to try it out!

I made the game more simple and straight to the point that in my opinion it gives it more dinamic and became more fun to play.

If you take your time to play it I thank you and Ihope you have a good playing and trying this game it has been a project made with a lot of effort and dificulties but also with a lot of love so I hopee you enjoy it!

Link for the game:

https://gamesbyspinola.itch.io/waki-and-the-lost-spirits

You can download it or try it out on the browser

man these upgrades are amazing keep up the good work.

really good looking game and I really liked the gameplay as well ! Really good work ! Cheers

beautiful character !!

amazing upgrades you´ve been making !! I´m loving the animations for this character !! suberb

cheers mate !! congrats on making this game I know there´s a lot to polish and to make but it´s on the right track !! really fun I will give it another go later !! :) 

awesome work mate ! ;) 

love the gobs !

beautiful games guys ! congrats

Hi everyone I´m very happy to announce that the new and probably the final demo of waki and the lost spirits is now available ! 

You can try it online on your browser or you can download it both for Pc and Mac. 

Major updates were made from last version and I´d like to invite you all to try it out and hopefully have a great time trying it out feel free to ask anything or leave feedback 

https://gamesbyspinola.itch.io/waki-and-the-lost-spirits

If you want to know more about the updates I made I go in a little more detail in here

https://gamesbyspinola.itch.io/waki-and-the-lost-spirits/devlog/455680/waki-and-the-lost-spirits

cool game !

beauiful

thank you !

really cool character !

Hi everyone I hope you´re doing great I´m very happy to announce that the full Demo for my game Waki and the Lost Spirits is available.

You can check and try it out in my page hope you like it and have some fun playing it.

Link - https://gamesbyspinola.itch.io/waki-and-the-lost-spirits

Waki and the Lost Spirits is a 2D action platformer with some tastes of a metroidvania game.

In this game you play as Waki a cute being born from the will of the spirits of the forest. 

Waki will be guided by the spirits so he can revive them and clean this ancient forest from an old curse.

Waki will explore the forest and its caves and in order to do so he will have to fight enemies, solve puzzles, complete platforming challenges, use Mana to cast spells or to heal when needed, fight bosses and gain abilities so you can be able to succeed in this journey.