Hi! This is my team's entry for Ludum Dare #42, ZeroBytes! This was our first Ludum Dare Game Jam, and even though everyone on the team wasn't available for the whole duration of the Jam, we managed to get a semi-working game by the deadline. :tada:

ZeroBytes is a game set in an old Windows 1998 computer where the system is out of storage space. Your goal is to kill off malware and viruses polluting your storage system, and free up space by getting rid of their corruption. In order to do this, you have 3 apps (weapons) available to you in the arsenal.

(The Arsenal; The objects in this room at the top left are your apps, and they are interactable. They allow you to equip different weapons)

(A USB Stick Slug Shotgun)

(A fully automatic, slightly unbalanced, audio 'dongle')

(A small but relatively fast firing, wireless usb pistol)

With these tools at your disposal, and plenty of Trojan Horses to defeat throughout your system, enter the portal at the right end of the Arsenal to enter a procedurally generated (slightly buggy) floor full of rooms of enemies.

The controls are: - WASD/Arrow Keys to move - Mouse1 to shoot - E to interact (with interactables like the apps in the arsenal, or the portal) - Escape to open escape menus in certain scenes (This is only really implemented/necessary in the areas where you have a player. They aren't perfect, so you may have to try to open them multiple times in order to get them to work)

As I said earlier, this was our first Ludum Dare Game Jam, so the game is barely playable. Some of the quirks may include: - Bullets that phase through walls. - Enemies that refuse to chase or attack you. - A missing crosshair (for some reason, the built version of the game refused to have a crosshair texture even when the editor version of the game worked fine) - Invisible walls; the procedural room generation is far from perfect and sometimes spawns rooms on the edge of or outside of boundaries. - The USB Stick Shotgun does 10 damage, the app menu for it is wrong. - Plenty of other unintentional 'features' that are currently unknown.