Power Creep

POWER CREEP

Pixel Game Jam 2025 Entry (Best Played in Edge/Chrome)

CONTROLS (M+KB and Gamepad)

Fairly standard FPS controls
Move: WASD/ Left Stick
Look: Mouse/ Right Stick
Sprint: LShift / Click Left Stick
Shoot: Left-Click / Right Trigger
Interact: E / Button-South
Jump: Space / Button North (or Left Trigger)
Reload: R / Button West
Pause: Tab / Start

Developer's Hints

You can double jump!
There is no limit to how much you can upgrade your stats.
If you can afford it, you can upgrade it.
Try healing more than you're hurt?
Barrels are sometimes a good marker
Bullets can pass through enemies
Your last five bullets are a little lucky

Q&A

What did you make?
All art, modeling, texturing, coding, and music was created by me. I did use a font and some sound effects that are licensed under Creative Commons.

Did I use AI?
Full disclosure, although nothing in my game is too complicated, I did ask AI for assistance
when it came to concepts I didn't really understand yet since I'm pretty new to programming.
However, the vast majority of the code was my own. It was mostly used when trying to
think of solutions to issues that I just couldn't seem to solve on my own.
No AI was used in the creation of any art assets, music, or sound.

Any future plans for this project?
Sure! It was a lot of fun to make. I learned a lot in this project that I didn't
know how to do before this, like using navmeshes, shaders, and materials. This is my first
ever 3D project, and I'm a massive fan of RPGs, so it was really hard to not try to give
you stats that increase over time like in Morrowind.
Ideally, you'd also get more than one gun, although I did always find it fun in games
like Resident Evil 4 where your handgun was basically 'ol' reliable' throughout the entire game
More levels would be fun too, maybe enterable buildings, although modeling and
texturing just the few that you see here was painful enough under the jam deadlines.

Any future plans in general?
This was such a fun experience! I learned so much and am looking forward to making more
stuff, especially learning to build and rig my own low-poly models in Blockbench, which
is what I used to make the models and paint them. It's more limiting than Blender, but
if you have an easier way to paint pixels on a model in Blender, I'd be happy to hear it.
That said, I have a few game ideas in mind and can honestly say I'm much better equippped
to make them than I was just nine days ago!

Good lord, what is that bass tone? It's filthy!
I used my Sire P/J 5-String bass with a setting I made in Neural DSP's Darkglass
Suite, with the J-Pickup on full, the P-pickups at about 50 percent, and used a pick to get the aggression.
Before it goes in the master, it's routed through EZMix which is using the Bob Rock Impossible Bass
preset. You can say a lot about St.Anger, but the guy knows drum and bass mixing.
If you want the preset, I'd be happy to send it to you. I was originally planning
on writing something a little more Mick Gordon-esque, but by the time I started writing
music, it was already 4am on the day of the deadline, so I ended up writing some more
sludgy stuff.