A downloadable endless runner for Windows

"System Collapse"

You're trapped inside a corrupted, decaying computer program. Glitchy bugs swarm the system—and you're the last line of defense. Shoot them down to speed up the program… but be careful: every shot also shreds your environment, creating pits of void to fall into and ever increasing the overall speed of the program. 
How far can you run and how many bugs can you remove, before the system crashes for good and you can no longer keep up?

Personal highscore: 23

How to play

  • Holding left mouse button shows the trajectory of your bomb to destroy the bugs (= red cubes)
  • Falling down or not keeping up with the forward moving camera is a loss condition
  • The more bugs you destroy, the faster the game gets; the worse your aim, the more gaps you shoot in your own way, making it even harder

Idea of the game

  • I had too high hopes to create a complex MagicaVoxel world that you can fully destroy, allow import into Unity, convert the Voxels into cubes and create an endless runner from there
  • Thanks to Bezi I could create a Voxel to Cube converter but I failed to fix the performance issues due to the 1000s of cubes a single Voxel universe would had
  • So I had to trim down and use a very simple low number of cubes, leading to a bit less of an impressive universe :) But who doesn't love destroying cubes???
  • I had additional ideas to make use of a ChaosMeter, where you can apply upgrades as you gain Chaos when destroying other blocks/voxels but ran out of time :( One idea that failed was to restore the destroyed segments to prolong the game but I reached  a skill ceiling sadly.


Credits:

Font: Bugfast  by Chequered Ink 

Parts of code: Bezi

SkyBox: ChatGPT

Audio: Effects - BfX; music: Tallbeardstudio (itch.io), Chiptune music: https://tallbeard.itch.io/three-red-hearts-prepare-to-dev


Published 2 days ago
StatusIn development
PlatformsWindows
AuthormisterG-gamedev
GenreAction
TagsEndless Runner

Download

Download
SystemCollapse3.zip 61 MB

Install instructions

Download, unzip, execute the "SystemCollapse.exe"

Comments

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This is such an original game concept, I love it! Not sure I can jump though? I got stuck one level below my starting level (I think?) and couldn't get back up! I liked the idea of destroying blocks all around though :D

hey thanks for playing. No you cannot jump. :)