Heat Signature
Heat signature
You hide behind the rubble and watch the kid, who listens for drones. Vigilant, focused, and obedient; not curious or joyful like kids used to be. Was it worth it, leaving a broken homeland? The border is close, just one more push. Just avoid the machines.
Gameplay
Your goal is to cross the border without being evaporated by killer drones. You’re safe as long as you remain hidden behind the buildings. Oh, and one more thing — there’s a kid, so 'you' is plural.
- Use the arrow keys to move the character
- Press Z to call the kid
- Remove the plug to end the oppression
- There are two endings, indicated by captions
About & Notes
Heat signature was made for Pico-1k 2024 jam with particular requirement of game being compressed into at most 1kb.
Uncompressed source along with comments is available here.
Picotron version lacks some of the sound effects and details due to slight syntax/architecture overhead. It is fully playable, yet the proper release is for the PICO-8 and this is the way game should be played.
Finally, game is follow-up to my "Distraction" piece https://rostok.3e.pl/codeart/#distraction
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I'm sorry but the game becomes quite annoying as you try more and more to finish it because it makes me as the player understand that i have to make near perfect movement and hope that the kid does not go in front of a building when I follow him,plus I've had a couple of plays where the X axis movement didn't work
The further you go, the longer are the distances between the houses. But no perfect movement is necessary to finish the game. I did, however, assume that eventually players will "hit the wall" and become slightly frustrated and this will force them to revise the strategy. In particular - did you study/notice the drone targeting behavior?
wait killer drones... LIKE MURDER DRONES!?!?!? *MAIN THEME OF MURDER DRONES*
im here to get away from ultrakills horrible womenattacker comments
I love the idea, but it seems like movement is significantly slower when moving only along the Y-axis, compared to X-axis only or combined movement.
you are right and it is intentional. horizontal movement is twice as fast as vertical.