Bridge The Void

People are scattered across tiny islands above a void. Use your remaining energy to build bridges and spirit people from island to island before your generator gives up.

Entry for Löve Jam 2023. (The jam editions are marked for posterity in case I come back and make improvements once the jam is over.)

If your computer struggles to run it in the browser, try the .love files or native packages—they run 3-4 times faster on my system compared to the browser.

Controls

Press Enter to start.

Clicking someone lets you spirit them to another island, using a little bit of energy.

Clicking one island and then another connects two islands with a bridge, using a lot of energy.

Acknowledgements

• Libraries: Fennel by Calvin Rose and contributors and Cljlib by Andrey Listopadov
• Project template: min-love2d-fennel by Alexander Griffith
• Font: Unifont by Unifont contributors

All other graphics are drawn procedurally (i.e., in code), so there are no other assets.

Thank you to the members of the Löve discord for encouragement and camaraderie.

License

Source code written by me licensed under MIT, same as Lua itself. For vendored (bundled) libraries, see their source files.