Short Circuit

The adorable adventures of a taser on a mission! Shock your way through six battles using a variety of weapons and modules.

This game was made as a part of GMTK's 2021 game jam for the theme "Linked Together". Link Toast and Redd, and connect them with all enemies to electrocute them senseless!

HOW TO PLAY:

Toast (Green) and Redd (Red) are two robots that can use a max of two weapons modules. At the beginning, you can only throw hooks and generate electricity, but you'll gain other abilities as you go along.

Fighting:

On each turn, you can use all actions on your players' menu. If Redd has Hook and Beam, and Toast has Surge, you can use all three actions in any order. You need to think about how you order your modules, based on source and health to defeat your enemies!

Over the course of the game, you will find powers like:

• Hook: Connect to an enemy
• Surge: Attack your enemies! Only affects enemies you are hooked to
• Beam: Attack all enemies! Weaker than surge, but does not require hooks
• Heal: Heal your friends! Requires being hooked to affect allies
• Charge: Powerup your friends! Hooked friends will be able to use all their actions twice next turn

To equip modules:

On the level select screen, you can click on Toast or Red to see what modules they have equipped. You can then click on a module on storage to equip it, or click on a weapon equipped to unequip it (NOTE: You are not allowed to have an empty equipment set. Both Toast and Redd must have at least one module equipped at all times!)

Most modules work based on connections; modules that help only work if you're connected to your ally, and modules that hurt (like Surge) require you to be connected to the enemy to attack them.

Dying:

When enemies lose all their energy, they leave the battle, and all active hooks on them are removed. However, allies will not leave when defeated, and any hooks that are active on them will remain active.

FEATURES:

• Quippy dialog by two robot best friends!
• Six levels with a variety of enemies and abilities
• New abilities unlocked every level
• Two original songs

CONTROLS:

Short Circuit can be played with either the Keyboard or the Mouse!

• Mouse controls: Left-click to select, Right-click to cancel
• Keyboard controls: Up-down-left-right, Z to select, X to cancel

CONTRIBUTIONS:

• Programming: KingoftheConnors
• Music: FordAudioDesign
• Art: All art assets are from penusbmic's fantastic sci-fi library of free assets: https://penusbmic.itch.io/