Sorry for the ginormous download (11MB!).  You can find it here: http://jerryfederspiel.org/exes/Jpfed_LD14_Crush.zip .  The .zip contains a Windows .exe and all required .dlls.  It also contains a .love file, which is just a renamed .zip of the game source and all of the graphics and sound files.  Anyone with LOVE installed can run the .love file, regardless of their host OS.

Crush is a pseudo-board-game in which you try to outlive your opponent.  You do this in two ways: 1. Capturing your opponent’s pieces and 2. be better than you opponent at avoiding getting crushed by the wall.  In the style of RoboRally, everyone (you, your computer opponent, and the wall) simultaneously and in secret chooses how to act, and then your decisions are executed simultaneously.  Unlike RoboRally, you have a limited time in which to choose your action.

The game controls are mouse-driven and should be pretty easily discoverable, but there are a few undocumented keyboard shortcuts you might want to know:

• “r” reloads the game
• “q” or escape exits the program entirely
• spacebar ends the current decision-making period and enacts everyone’s current move choices (and if they haven’t made a choice yet, they don’t move at all for this turn)

Tags: final

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