The Grid Room

This is a short game made for Ludum Dare #42, the theme being 'running out of space'. I had issues with inspiration with this theme, so the game loop is no where near as engaging or polished as I think it should be. I just made it up as I went along.
CONTROLS
WASD\Arrow Keys - Movement & terminal grid selection
Spacebar - Jump
Left Shift - Sprint
E/Left Mouse Button - Use
Escape/Right Mouse Button - Cancel
0 or P - Quit
GAMEPLAY INSTRUCTIONS
- Grab the coloured diamonds and place them in the terminal scan zone.
- Select a grid, cell level, and cell to place the diamond in. The diamond in the scan zone
will automatically move when an empty cell is select.
- Arrange HORIZONTAL rows of the same coloured diamonds.
- Submit the contents of the grid via the submit button on the terminal. (NOTE - This will
submit any correct rows of diamonds in the grid).
- Submitting correct rows converts the diamonds to disk space.
- When the disk is full, grab another disk and put it into the terminal. This will remove 1 strike.
- A strike is gained when 4 items reach the end of the conveyor belt and there is no data in the disk.
- 3 strikes is game over.
- At the end of each round a grid will disappear at random.

Comments2

designernap15 Aug 2018, 20:57
Had early struggles getting into it but like max above, couldn't get very far. It looks like there is cool game in there but with a bit more balancing. As you said above though, you didn't think it was as polished as could be. Good entry though!


You should make a gif/video/image on this side to help the players with the game :)