Radio Inactive by Edoardo Talamini

Help Steve and Bob avoid the nuclear meltdown by expertly fixing the cooling bars of the reactor before the countdown reaches zero. Be careful, the radio signal is unstable!
HOW TO PLAY:
*WASD or Directional Arrows to move, Space to... fix.
*Follow Bob's instruction and push them all down to prevent the meltdown and win, but be careful, making a mistake will mean that more bars will activate!
*Also, the core is unstable, and every few second one extra bar will activate.
Good Luck!

| Link | https://arcanesalad.itch.io/radio-inactive |
| Link | https://arcanesalad.itch.io/radio-inactive |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/radio-inactive |
Ratings
| Overall | 499th | 3.7⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 842th | 3.34⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 996th | 3.08⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 353th | 3.94⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 240th | 4.22⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 289th | 3.68⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 561th | 3.58⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 23🗳️ | 27🗨️ |
Maybe the space between the bars is a bit too tight, sometimes its hard to navigate between them.
Apart from that really nice work.
And GG to Gat, 40 second left it's pretty good I'd say!
I would like to fix the problem but it doesn't happen on my browser so I really don't know how to approach it.
This game looks and plays great, and the alarm sound definitely adds to the intensity (which, I suppose, is what alarms are for. Hmm...). Nice job, team!
@haematite in the main menù there is a "post-it" with the quadrants' name, but I suppose it's pretty easy to miss ahah
I played it 3 times, first time I got frustrated and lost, second time I lost with 1 platform left that popped up just at the end (kind of felt unfair) and the last time I won with 45 seconds remaining. It felt a bit RNG the last two times because I didn't feel like I played that much better the 3rd time.
The artstyle is cute and charming, I love Bob's animation and the people running around in the background. The siren noises were fitting and realistic but I found them abrasive and I would have preferred some kind of music or sound effects that evoke the speed/panic factor but are enjoyable. Overall I had fun playing this, good job!
Then I read the comments here and realized I wasn't quite playing right. I was able to fix everything after a couple more tries with the winning condition in mind. I liked the art, and the game follows the theme very well! Maybe don't play the same sound 50 times when all the bars raise at the same time when you lose though, that was a bit too loud! :laughing: But well done with this game!
Overall extremely well done!