The Last Crossing by Malorym
Embark on a journey as a crossing signal to find your love and save train babies.
Description
Vudy, an old railroad crossing signal from '59, survives the eradication of humanity. After ten long and lonely years spent in his place, he hears something unexpected: a railway crossing bell, coming from far away.
Goal
- Walk towards the mysterious bell sounds as you try to avoid and shut down wild malfunctioning trains.
- Save train babies from being run over by the trains and gain love.
- Defeat the boss to reach your happy end.

Controls
- Use WASD to move around.
- Use E to aim at a train to enter the rhythm bell mode.
- Match the timing of the indicators multiple times using E to shut down the train.

Credits
- The game (coding, art, music) was made by DavidtheRailfan and Malorym
| Link | https://malorym.itch.io/the-last-crossing |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/the-last-crossing |
Ratings
| Overall | 483th | 3.5⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 520th | 3.25⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 482th | 3.306⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 267th | 4⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 307th | 3.972⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 208th | 3.806⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 124th | 3.778⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 371th | 3.722⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 30🗳️ | 9🗨️ |
And that's good to know abut itch, it still seems to run normally in my browser, but I'll try figuring out what might be causing issues!
Thanks a lot for the helpful feedback and for playing!
And oh that's something we totally forgot to mention in the game, that each mistimed attempt will reduce the HP a bit.
I'll try to add such missing info, and also reduce the amount of health loss, or think of alternative less punishing consequences. Aim indication and some more restrictive random placement are really great ideas too! Thanks so much!
I think the mechanic of freezing trains is a bit difficult to get used to though, it might help if pressing "E" at the wrong time didn't result in losing health. But overall it was still a super fun experience though! I'm glad I had the chance to play it.

As for gameplay, it's mostly just avoiding trains. I found freezing not very useful because it's difficult to aim and it's very unforgiving if you miss the E press. I think it would be better if instead of losing health, the frozen trains just unfreezed.
Thanks for this game!