Reactor Meltdown (The Simpsons) by AdamJN
Welcome to Reactor Meltdown, Created by AdamIndieDev (@AdamJN).
The Springfield Nuclear reactor is in meltdown, Delay the meltdown by completing tasks. When a task is triggered you have just 15 seconds till catastrophic failure.
All Assets in this project were created by me from scratch except a couple of small UI elements, Fonts, The Duff beer can, the chair and The Simpsons (believe it or not).
Controls
WASD - Movement Mouse - Looking E - Interact Space - Jump
How To Play
Springfield Nuclear reactor is in Meltdown, Delay the Inevtiable by completing tasks at the control panel when they Alert you to!
A red exclamation mark will appear when a task is ready, You have 15 seconds to complete it or its Over. How long can you survive?
Tasks will spawn more frequently as the game goes on! Dont get overwhelmed!
Known Bug:
In HTML5 the first person controller glitches out slightly sometimes if you move the mouse too quickly. This can be fixed by downloading the game.
DISCLAIMER
This game is not affiliated with Fox/Disney or the Simpsons. This game was created for fun and for free. All assets were my own.
| HTML5 | https://adamjn.itch.io/reactormeltdown |
| Windows | https://adamjn.itch.io/reactormeltdown |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/reactor-meltdown-the-simpsons |
Ratings
| Overall | 1170th | 3.1⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 889th | 3.2⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1003th | 2.96⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 550th | 3.78⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 631th | 3.72⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 388th | 3.479⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1005th | 3.174⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 22🗳️ | 27🗨️ |
The art is solid although I do not know about the Simpsons theme. You could have easily just made your own generic nuclear plant theme without mentioning Simpsons and it would have been just fine. Now the theme feels a bit riding off the success of Simpsons. But this is just my opinion - the art is solid and as I said it would be just as good without the Simpson connection!
I found it very hard time wise. I could always only finish one task before everything blew up. Even if I knew exactly what to do and was already standing at the correct spot when the task appeared.
The visuals and sounds are well made, I just wish there was more time to learn some of the minigames before the meltdown, but I guess the meltdown wouldn't wait for me to learn anyway heh
Good job!
A bit too tuff for my taste, as I never survive long. The 6 numbers task is the most difficult for me somehow xD
The visuals are convincing, I just wished you would have more indicators for the reactor level. Doors that shake, screaming sound from the hallway etc.
The music is really good! Sounds like the Simpsons!
nice and small, I like it.
Somehow I didn't get to see it in full screen, but might be resolution related (4k).
There are a few points though:
As you only got 15 seconds, I found it a bit mad that even in the first "round" two panels were activating at the same time. This is a point which I find in many LD games: The level of complexity or as in your case the difficulty starts to hard or increases to quick. Remember that a player does not know, what you do. They have to learn.
The second point is, I noticed that sometimes I am standing in front of a panel, looking at it and pressing "E" but nothing happens. After pressing E several times, the panel opens. I think you eighter got issues with your detection of the keypress, or the collider used to detect the player is sized a bit to small.
The last thing - but thats not an issue of the game and does not count into the rating - is, that the fullscreen button is not working correclty. Thats an issue in the combination of the used HTML-Template and the setting on itch. That just as a hint.
> The difficulty curve was a bit steep, it should be possible for a new player to be slow and experiment with the first few panels but here if you did not know exactly what to do with ever panel as the popped up you would loose.
Exactly what I was about to write.
Everything else is super-cool. Good job man!
PS: I almost lasted more than a minute my last try (if I remember correctly). Wonder what is your highscore