Aether Trails game

Aether Trails is a captivating HTML5 path-tracing game designed to challenge players' precision and focus across 50 unique, handcrafted levels. Guide a luminous orb through increasingly narrow and intricate paths without touching the edges to conquer each stage.

features:

• Engaging Core Gameplay: A unique and addictive path-tracing mechanic that requires precision and steady hands.
• 50 Diverse Levels: Progress through 50 meticulously designed stages, starting with simple layouts and advancing to highly complex, narrow, and winding challenges.
• Progressive Difficulty: Levels become increasingly intricate and the paths grow narrower, providing a satisfying learning curve and long-term engagement.
• Intuitive Control Scheme: Seamlessly control the luminous orb using either mouse movement or keyboard input (W, A, S, D, or Arrow Keys) for broad player accessibility.
• Clean & Attractive Design: Features a minimalist yet visually appealing aesthetic with glowing elements, a serene dark background, and a custom SVG logo.
• Mobile & Desktop Optimized: Built with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, ensuring smooth and responsive gameplay across various devices and screen sizes.
• Immediate Visual Feedback: The path successfully traced by the player is highlighted in a vibrant cyan, providing clear and satisfying progress indication.
• Browser-Based: No special software or plugins required for players; runs directly in any modern web browser.
• Easy to Customize: Well-structured and commented code allows for easy modification of levels, colors, and game mechanics.

Requirements:

• Web Server: A basic web server (e.g., Apache, Nginx, XAMPP, WAMP, PHP built-in server) is required to host the index.php, style.css, and script.js files.
• PHP: PHP is needed only to serve the index.php file. No server-side processing is done by the game logic itself within PHP.
• Modern Web Browser: Compatible with all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, etc.).
• Basic HTML/CSS/JS Knowledge: For any customization or advanced integration.

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1. Download:>span class="selected"> Download the game package, which includes index.php, style.css, and script.js.
2. Upload to Web Server: Upload all three files (index.php, style.css, script.js) to a directory on your web server.
3. Access: Navigate to the URL of the index.php file in your web browser. The game's intro screen will load automatically.
4. Play:
   • Click the "Start Game" button.
   • Guide the luminous orb by moving your mouse or using the ARROW keys (W, A, S, D).
   • Stay strictly within the gray path. If you touch the edges or go outside the canvas, the game ends.
   • Successfully trace the path from the "Start" point to the "End" point to clear a level and proceed to the next.
   • Complete all 50 levels to win the game!