Countdown Dodger

Countdown Dodger: a turn-based grid navigation game

Race against the countdown and navigate obstacles to reach the exit! Beware the countdowns of fire-blasting robots in your path, as you'll have to space your moves to avoid getting burned on your way out.

~~~ Gameplay ~~~

- Reach the goal space before the countdown is up. The countdown ticks at the end of each of your turns.

- You can move up to 3 spaces per turn, and take one action per turn. You can traverse unblocked diagonals, and you can split your movements across a turn (e.g. move, action, move, move).

- Press Z to undo your last input. If you would fail, you are instead prompted to undo your last action.

- Stationary robots will blast fire in different patterns, each with their own countdown.

~~~ Controls ~~~

Click on empty space: Move

Spacebar or "End turn" button: End turn

Z: Undo

WASD/Arrows: Pan view

Q/E: Zoom out/in

Click on interactable object (switch, bot): Spend action to interact. Must be cardinally adjacent to that object, and costs your 1 action for that turn.

~~~ Misc / Known issues ~~~

- Countdown Dodger is fully playable/completable in its current state.

- Known bug: occasionally you can take your turn during the flame animation, allowing you to move into them and burn.

- Not a bug, WAI: Hacking a bot rewinds its countdown to its previous value, which might mean cycling it back to 1.