😈 Dante

Dante is a small inferno that still expects you to climb out. Salvatore Previti packed it into js13k 2022: one figure, moving blocks, wild mechanisms, and a sky that does not care how many times you miss the same ledge.

You are not mapping a city. You are leaving a pit. Platforms slide, tilt, and vanish on a timer you feel in the hands before you can name it. A gap that looked polite from below is a different sentence from above. The fall is never a lecture. It puts you back on the last honest stone and asks for the jump again.

The Divine Comedy is the joke and the compass. There is no Virgil talking you through the circles. There is Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, third movement, cut for the climb by Ryan Malm, so the panic has a piano under it. The textures are procedural dirt. The scale is browser-small. The mood is still descent-as-ascent: every good landing is one circle closer to air.

It plays in a short, stubborn loop. Look at the moving piece until you trust the beat. Jump on the beat, not at the piece. Escape is the only quest log. Hell will not know what hit it, because nothing hits it. You just refuse to stay.