A downloadable game for Windows

Drone crates is a sort of battle sandbox game where you are armed with a crowbar in a dreamlike environment of floating platforms, crates, and drones.

Red drones will attack the player by firing missiles

Green drones will attack red drones by firing missiles at them

Blue drones will act as a protective shield from red drones

The original game jam build can be found here: https://pixelrunneryt.itch.io/drone-crates

NEW UPDATE 1.0:

The latest update changelog will be shown on the main page. These will be preserved in devlogs.

Additions:

  • A unique platform that the player spawns on
  • A new type of platform that starts with a crate on top of it
  • Blue drones now have a protective shield around them that prevents red drones from attacking the player in various ways
  • Coins which act as points

Changes:

  • There is now a logo that is more fitting to the game
  •  Improved the main menu drastically
  • Crates will now randomly spawn in the sky once every frame 
  • Crates and drones will now be destroyed when they hit the collision box below the map that kills the player
  • The world is now 500x500m instead of 200x200m 
  • Platforms are slightly more rare 
  • Decreased the render distance for better performance with the new world generation 
  • Drones can now aim better and will no longer spin out of control
  • Increased the reach distance and attack speed of the crowbar 
  • Red drones will now wait a second after being spawned before they can fire, giving the player a chance to react 
  • Increased player jump height 
  • The crowbar is now reflective 
  • You can now jump while on drones
  • You will now move with the platform you're standing on
  • Blue drones will now rotate smoothly
  • Improved the lighting
  • Changed the skybox
  • Increased the saturation of the drones' wings
  • Changed the look of the platforms
  • Red Drones and Green Drones are now killed in 2 hits
  • Blue Drones are now killed in 4 hits
  • Game will no longer restart when player respawns

Fixes:

  • Green drones rotation is no longer hindered by its missile cooldown
  • Player will no longer fall faster when walking off a drone after standing on it for a long time.
  • Crowbar will no longer deal damage to a drone by it's attack range collider
  • The cursor sprite now renders properly in menus

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DroneCrates1-0.zip 20 MB

Development log

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