Scale or Die

Enjoy this simple arcade-style game where you play as a robot scaling a mountain to avoid the storm and floods of water! This is a GMTK 2024 submission, the theme was "Built to Scale." It's almost a flappy bird style of game, but with much more advanced physics, and plays vertically.

Tutorial - this game has a very simple game loop, but a lot of interesting physics you can use to your advantage.

Basics:

• Your stamina is the green bar at the top, keep it high or you're screwed.
• Climb as high as possible, if the water touches you then you lose.
• Debris is constantly falling, don't get hit or it will fling you across the map.

Controls:

• WASD to move, W/S controls how floaty/heavy you are.
• Space to jump, you may hold jump while hitting a wall to perform a wall jump.
• Hold Left Shift to accelerate/dash, uses a lot of stamina though.
• Click on an entity/platform/wall to grapple to it. You may then swing around it or use it to gain some height.
• Run into a wall/platform to "wall hang," this slows your descent and has a visual queue of sending sparks everywhere.
• Escape to enter/exit fullscreen.

Advanced, skill checks:

• Reverse your direction before a wall jump to increase its effect.
• Use grapple to absorb a collision with debris, if it's unavoidable. This can actually work to your benefit, because the grapple will work like a spring and rebound you into the sky.
• Get the most out of one grapple, since spamming it drains stamina very quickly.