Crushing Dread by Sciman101
You are Dread the robot, and you're trapped in a trash compactor. Use the various junk you find to make gadgets to try and hold back your impending doom. How long can you last?
Music once again created by LCS - Check out her other work here!
Controls: - Arrow Keys - Move - Space - Interact - q/w/e - Place Structures
| Link | https://sciman101.itch.io/crushing-dread |
| Link | https://sciman101.itch.io/crushing-dread |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/crushing-dread |
Ratings
| Given | 6🗳️ | 9🗨️ |

I think you probably could've done away with dropping placeholders entirely, and just required holding q/w/e to build. I couldn't find much reason to place drop a placeholder and not build it immediately (it would be useful if building were instant, so you could fire a bunch of rockets at the same time. but that could be solved with an activation button for the rockets), this would also remove the slightly weird interaction with the wall pushing placeholders.
The music and sounds fit very well, the art is great, everything controls well. Very nice!!
Also, thanks for introducing me to the works of LCS. :slight_smile:
@mavvy Thanks! Idk why but 'giant crushing wall' came into my head the second the theme was announced.
Also the lever mvp giving me a few extra seconds to really accept my incoming death.
@st-n Thanks! I'm very happy with how the art turned out, in the end
@forgin-bits Yeah, I could have made it a little softer sounding, and I'm considering a post-jam version without the placeholders. Thanks for playing!
I didn't play well, but it really push to do the best each time ; and the little playtime help a lot. Good game design and good execution too, congrats!