Cinder (Abuse source port)

Playable

PC · 2026 · Platformer · Source port

Jump over heat and obstacles to clear two short independently authored courses.

About 3.1 MB on first load. Silent edition; no audio device.

Controls

	Choose brightness and click OK, then GO
`Left/Right`	move
`Up`	jump over heat and obstacles
`S`	save in this browser; L — load
`Enter`	retry after energy empties or restart after completion
`Escape`	Return/Start/brightness menu

About this build

Cinder uses the original developer-released Abuse engine, ported to WebAssembly with independently authored CC0 graphics, glyphs, worker/collapse animation, text, rules and maps. This silent edition is a small two-course survival challenge. It is not the retail Abuse campaign, a matching decompilation, emulation or a certified clean-room reconstruction.

Built from: Original developer-released Abuse engine in WebAssembly
Type: Source port
Game files: No ROM or original game files needed. Original Abuse artwork, maps, scripts, fonts and audio are excluded.
Code licence: Public-domain developer engine release; credited Bennett GIF decoder permission; own adaptations MIT; separately noticed permissive Emscripten/musl/LLVM runtime
Assets: CC0-1.0 independently authored content and native-canvas screenshot; host/build code MIT; system fonts retain separate terms
Source: videogamepreservation/abuse ↗

What has been tested

Exact local public candidate: native brightness/GO, normal keys heat damage/death/frozen controls/retry, timed jump avoidance; damaged HP50 course-one native save at (52,190) restored byte-for-byte after full browser restart and ordinary L. Both authored courses completed with HP75, Enter restart at HP100. Host Stop and browser menu verified separately. Current public/live acceptance is recorded in the dated distribution report; no retail campaign or audible audio claim.

Last tested 2026-10-13 in Headless Microsoft Edge on Windows; muted. Full playthrough: verified. How games are tested.

See the dated distribution and gameplay record.

Known limitations

Two-course authored prototype; not the retail game or a complete replacement campaign.
Keyboard and mouse required; other browsers, touch/controllers and multiplayer unverified.
One stationary damaged course-one save tested; dead/completed/course-two states, overwrite/transfer, rapid-close/crash/quota/denial/corruption and failure-HUD cases unverified.
Legacy engine warnings and paths outside the tested challenge remain unresolved.
Silent edition with no audio device or sound/music payloads; audible audio unverified.

Saves

S commits a native save under /cinder-saves in this browser origin/profile. Wait for Browser save: saved before closing. Clearing site data removes it; no portable export/import.

Build and corresponding source

Compiled with Emscripten6.0.10, pin d6c521a7f05449857c76bd99e396895583cf2083 from revision 01cce80eaf2ae82bafb9981162e205e42d0fae2f.