Defend Us!

The Bridge has been formed and the foe advances! 
Manage your crew and keep the cannons firing to hold them back until the infernal connection  can be destroyed!

Controls

• X/(X): switch currently selected crew member
• Arrow-Keys/(Dpad): select a location in range to move current crew to
• Z/(O): move current crew to selected location (or view crew info)
• Mouse controls can are enabled by default

Rules

• The enemy advances with every second action you take
• Put crew members behind the cannons to keep firing them
• Collect ammo when (or before) your crew runs out
• Collect charges to promote your crew and give them special blast patterns and other abilities
• Collect ALL the charges to rig the bridge to explode!

Hold out, and don't let the enemy breach the cannon line until The Bridge can be totally destroyed!

Game Modes

• Survival: the more straightforward and slightly easier game mode. You simply must survive until your crew can collect the last charge to destroy the bridge.
• Onslaught: Strange new enemies start to interfere with your crew and make things more difficult, but you also earn points for every enemy you take out. After you collect all the charges you can still keep playing for as long as possible  to score as many points as you can. You high scores will be recorded!
• Nightmare: Hard mode, increased difficulty. Much harder to collect all the charges and destroy the bridge
• Daily Assault: Uses the current date to generate a new random seed each day, so players can try to get the highest score they can with a particular combination of Charge/Skills drops and enemy spawns. (note: the high score will also reset daily!)

Dev Stuff & Feedback

This is my first foray into Pico8 dev and I've really had a blast working on this game! 

After I stalled out on a side project I was making in Godot and I decided to try doing this little "demake" of my unfinished idea instead. Pico8's limitations forced me to focus game design down to it's absolute essentials and "The Bridge" is the result.  I've been tweaking and improving the game a bit over the last few months, and may continue adding some more features in the future such and new crew abilities, new enemies and maybe even a special "Daily Run" mode (assuming I can fit them all in a single Pico8 cart!). 

If you've played the game and have thoughts, I'd love to hear them. Specifically...

• How's the game's difficulty? Too easy? too hard?
• Should I include a little guide for the different abilities and enemies? Or is it more fun to find out as you play?
• Should I try to cram more into this game? (somehow!)

Cheers!