Nuclear Lab

In this short top-down shooter made for LOWREZJAM2024, you fight against terrorists who attacked a nuclear lab and want to press the red button to launch an A-bomb. You control a robot that always respawns when it's destroyed. As all systems were put out of service by terrorists, it won't be so easy to call help. Millions of lives are at stake...

Controls

• WASD/Arrows - move
• left-click/Space - shoot
• right-click/G - self-destruction
• mouse cursor - aiming (doesn't affect movement, only shooting)
• Esc - quit the game

How to play

The game consists of two phases. In the first one, you need to call help and in the second one, you only defend the red button.

You start in the central room (with the red button). Go around the map and turn on generators (they are brown) by stepping on them. The more generators are on, the faster the electrical network charges (you can see the charging bar at the bottom of the screen).

When you hear an alarm and a timeout appears in the top-right corner, it means that a terrorist is pressing the button! In this case, you need to rush to the central room  (arrows in the hallways can lead you) and shoot the enemies before it's too late. If the button is held for 9 seconds, the A-bomb is launched and the game is over.

Attention! Enemies are coming from four directions and they can shoot you too! If this happens, you immediately respawn on the green tile near the button. But there is a problem: whenever you die, all generators are turned off and you have to turn them on again.

You can also destroy yourself by a right-click or pressing G. This can come in handy if you're far away from the button and you need to get there quickly.

Once the network is charged, help is called. The second phase starts. The police will come in one minute. And at this moment, the true hell begins. The terrorists understand that they don't have time and become much faster.

From this moment on, you just have to stay in the central room and shoot everyone who approaches the button. Defend for one minute to win.

Good luck!

Credits

• coding: me
• made with Godot 4
• graphics: me
• music:
  • FoxSynergy: Grey Sector (8-bit)
    
  • FoxSynergy: Cluster Block
  • HydroGene: 8-bit - Last Mission
  • Matthew Pablo: Space Boss Battle Theme

• sound effects:
  • Milo Koenig (Soundbible): Shotgun Shoot + Reload (shoot)
  • Michael Baradari: 11 Male Human Pain/Death Sounds (enemy death)
  • aquinn: Sirens and Alarm Noise (sound on the victory screen)
  • Stephen M. Cameron: Action Shooter Soundset (sound on the defeat screen and player death)
  • claudeb: Buzz Grid Sounds (turning on generator)
  • yd: Short Alarm (button alert)
  • Macro: Alarm (when you call help)