A downloadable game for Windows

Overview

With the world devastated, the bugs have built mecha versions of themselves to survive in the wild.

Choose your bug frame and use the action loop to defeat your opponents with repeated abilities.

How to Play

Bug Frame Selection

  • Select from different three characters:
    • Strike Stag: The bulkiest mech, with 3 action slots, 10 energy and 10 HP.
    • SNAIL-02: Slow but saves energy, with 2 action slots, 16 energy and 8 HP.
    • Mechamoth: Speed is their speciality, with 3 action slots, 12 energy and 6 HP.

Ready Up Phase

  • Hover over the action blocks to check their abilities and energy costs (you can do this with the enemy blocks too!).
  • Click and drag an action block into a slot to use it.
  • Click on a inserted action block to remove it from the slot.
  • Press the play button on the bottom left to start the battle.

Battle Phase

  • Observe your actions against your opponents!
  • If you need to swap actions, press the pause button however it will use up one of your pauses.
  • Defeat the enemy to gain a new action block and continue the fight!

Controls

Mouse Left Click -  Drag action blocks, select buttons.

Credits

Contributers

Duncan - Programming, Art, Game Design.

Sam - Art, Game Design.

Resources Used

Fonts

Jersey 10

Music & SFX

Chiptone

20 excellent 8 bit loops - Snabisch

Published 27 days ago
StatusPrototype
PlatformsWindows
AuthorsSam, Duncan
Tagsbattles, bugs, loop, Pixel Art

Download

Download
BugFrame.zip 234 MB

Install instructions

Unzip the folder and double-click the GMTK2025.exe file. 

SmartScreen may appear, if so, select "More Info" and then "Run".

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