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Crawler Manager

In build

A Dungeon Crawler Carl inspired game for your phone. You make one crawler, answer three calls a day, and watch the broadcast to see if she lives. A thousand go in.

Daily crawl game for phones, built in Godot 4

See the rigging tests

What it looks like

A painted Crawler Manager crawler, a grey-haired plumber, swinging a pipe wrench at a skeleton in a Roman helmet inside a torch-lit stone room with cool blue light at the far end — Fig. 1 A painted Crawler Manager crawler, a grey-haired plumber, swinging a pipe wrench at a skeleton in a Roman helmet inside a torch-lit stone room with cool blue light at the far end.

Crawler Manager mock-up on a phone: her live camera, a yellow handwritten note from her, three sponsor offers as paper slips, a lever for tonight's game plan and a big orange strap that says send her down — Fig. 2 Mock-ups of the locked look, on a phone: three calls, a find, the show.

Crawler Manager mock-up on a phone: the Host's line on a monitor, her pipe wrench beside a rare find called The Night Shift, what changes if she takes it, and a strap that says put it on her — Fig. 2 Mock-ups of the locked look, on a phone: three calls, a find, the show.

Where it stands

Every rule runs in plain code with no game engine in it, checked by 2,478 tests
I locked the look on 13 November: painted people in a real place, a loud TV broadcast and a paper desk
The screens here are mock-ups of that look. The game itself does not look like this yet

Playable start to finish, not balanced yet. The new look still has to be built.