Elevating Tensions

Tragic backstory

Chuck McCorndog, a beer-loving redneck lumber jack, lived in a peaceful log cabin in the woods. One day it was bulldozed and a huge corporate skyscraper was built in its place. Chuck was angry enough but when he read the words CASH Inc. on the side of the building it really pushed him over the edge…

• Spicy Chicken: Code & Music
• Robo-Octo: SFX
• Pixel Overload: Art

 Gameplay

Pick up weapons or use your fists to last as long as you can in an ongoing elevator fight scene. Jump, dash, and throw weapons to evade enemies. Use attack combos and powerups to reach the highest floor you can in this arcade-like elevator adventure.                     

                  

Game jam theme

This game was made for The Indie Tales Jam. It fits the theme of ‘one room’ by having the player continue their endless fight, constricted to only an elevator. This concept of one room was used in combination with normal side scroller platformer fighting games, which led to an alternate take on the genre and presented an interesting new way of making them.

 

Controls

Movement: AD / Left and right arrows keys

Jump and duck: WS / Up and down arrow keys

Attack, throw weapon, pick up weapon: JKL / ZXC

Dash: Shift             

Dash + attack = dash attack

Holding down + dash = ground pound                                 

Thumbnail drawn post-jam.