GameMaker - "Storge" A Platformer game

This is my first attempt to use GameMaker engine and also my first platformer game and pixel art. This is a short platformer game developed in the course of 11 weeks and this project is solo project. Storge means "familial love" in Greek.

Demo video is at the bottom

Gameplay

Lead the little sister to the goal safely by holding hand while avoiding traps and dangerous creatures.

Story Summary

A brother brings his blind sister into a forest seeking for a legendary wizard in a forest to cure her blindness.

World Settings

It is a devolved civilization in the far future. The current civilization is similar to the medieval era as humanity lost all the advanced technology and knowledge. The legendary wizard the sibling is seeking for is actually an Android remained from the past and lost civilization. 

Characters

Big Brother

Elder brother of Little Sister. They lost their parents when they were younger. Now they are living with their grandmother. He values his family more than anything. He wants to help his beloved sister regain her normal and happy life at all cost.

Little Sister

Younger sister of player character, Big Brother. One day she became blind due to an unknown disease. Despite becoming blind, she feels safe when her brother is beside her, she is very attached to her brother and has the tendency to rely on her brother. 

The Sage

Legend says the Sage has been living for thousands of years, he has mastered the ultimate sorcery of healing all kinds of disease and even resurrecting the dead. He lives deep inside the forest with mysterious structures, dangerous traps and habitat of dangerous wild beasts and creatures, isolating himself from the outside world. The truth is, The Sage is an android that survived over the lost civilization from thousands of years ago. All the mysterious structures are also left behind by that civilization where technology was advanced.

Story

Big Brother and Little Sister are siblings who lost their parents when they were young, they are living with their grandparent. One day, Little Sister found herself blinded when she woke up. No one can tell why it happened, after many different remedies and attempts to help Little Sister regain her vision, there is still no sign of recovery. Big Brother and the grandparents are very sad. In the attempt to help Little Sister, Big Brother heard a tale about a legendary great wizard who people called him The Sage, he can heal any kind of unknown disease. In despair, Big Brother decided to bring his blind Little Sister into the woods to seek for The Sage to recover her eye sights.

Setting

This game is set in a medieval era in current time; however, the world had an advanced futuristic civilization thousands of years ago in the past. It all disappeared after a world war broke out, leaving very little human population remaining. All the knowledge, technology and history has slowly faded away and is lost after thousands of years. Now the human population has grown larger, but the civilization has devolved back to the medieval era. Some structures and artifacts from the lost civilization are left behind, these things are strange to people in current time, they have little knowledge of what these are.

Theme

This is a game about familial love, the bond between family; the adventurous hardship and dedication to ensure the well-being of family. The game is set in a dangerous forest filled with wild creatures and strange structures. These structures look like modern industrial structures which are mainly made of concrete and steel. These structures are left by lost civilization which the record and knowledge of this civilization has been lost in the current era. 

Demo Video