BRAMBLE — Tales of the Hatted Hare

BRAMBLE — Tales of the Hatted Hare is a charming-but-moody 2D platformer with the feel of a pop-up storybook. You play a quick-footed rabbit hero who runs, leaps, and stomps across seven distinct worlds, each rendered in soft vector art with multi-layer parallax, drifting weather, dynamic glow lighting, and ambient life — birds, bats, fireflies, embers, and floating lanterns.

Movement is built to feel good: a forgiving variable-height jump with coyote-time and input buffering, ride-along moving platforms, and satisfying bounce-stomps. Early on you find two run-long upgrades — a Grow Potion and a Magic Wand — that reshape how you fight. Enemies range from goblins and spear-throwing elves to fire-breathing dragons, and three distinct bosses test what you've learned, each ending in a fireworks finale.

Hidden inside the adventure is a secret: defeat the first world's boss and an arcane door appears. Step through it into The Burning Keep — a night realm of flaming castles, little red devils, and a broom-riding Dark Witch — then return to continue the journey.

Key features

• Seven hand-crafted worlds, each with a unique palette, parallax backdrop, weather, lighting, hazard, and enemy type.
• A hidden eighth world reached through a magic door — burning castles, devils, and a witch boss.
• Three boss battles with distinct attack patterns and stomp-the-weak-point mechanics, each capped with a fireworks celebration.
• Two persistent upgrades — Grow Potion and Magic Wand — that carry across the whole run.
• Feel-good platforming — variable jump, coyote-time, jump buffering, ride-along moving platforms (lifts & ferries).
• Living scenes — birds, bats, fireflies, embers, drifting fog, floating lanterns and molten rocks, animated hazards, and additive glow lighting.
• Plays anywhere — one self-contained HTML file; full keyboard and touch support.

Worlds

1. Meadow Gate — sunny rolling fields (boss: the Dark Magician → secret door)
2. Frostwood Forest — snowfall over moonlit pines
3. The Enchanted Wood — glowing twilight forest
4. The Black Mire — fog-choked poisonous swamp
5. Crystal Caverns — luminous underground crystals
6. Infernal Burrows — lava caves (boss: the Giant Demon Rabbit)
7. The Hare King's Keep — the final torch-lit castle

• ✦ The Burning Keep (secret) — castles ablaze under a blood moon (boss: the Dark Witch)

Bosses

• The Dark Magician — hovers and hurls "fire carrots"; swoops low and glows when you can stomp him. (4 HP)
• The Giant Demon Rabbit — a towering brute with a flaming club and three-way fireball volleys. (5 HP)
• The Dark Witch — rides a broom, glows green when vulnerable, and casts a five-shot fireball spread. (5 HP)