🧊 Meltdown 🧊

Top 1 speedrun by cole:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAcdioyMXPo

Controller not Required but Recommended. I've tested all levels using keyboard primarily, but later trying controller made it much easier for me.

Action	Keyboard	Controller
movement	A/D/Left/Right	D-Pad (no analog)
jump	space/W/Up	X  (ps) / A (xbox)
dash	shift/S/Down	O or Square (ps) / B or X (xbox)
respawn	R	Triangle (ps) / Y (xbox)
pause	ESC/P	Start

Playtime:

•  Speedrun pace: 1:15 to 2:00 (I believe under 1:10 is possible, even though I couldn't do it myself yet). I have 1:15 on video on Youtube.
• While you figure the levels out: 5 to 10 min

There are 7 levels that ramp in difficulty quite a bit after the first 2 tutorial-ish introductory ones. Make sure to get comfortable with movement : ).

About:

You are a dashing 🧊 on your way to a delivery ship. Avoid heatsources (sun, candles, lava) and refresh yourself (shade, fridges) while navigating through treacherous platforming to get there before melting down.

Movement highly inspired by the dash jump mechanic from Megaman X-X3 (SNES).

The In game "About" menu goes into more detail about mechanics and external/existing assets used.

Changelog:

• dashes are longer (0.2sec to 0.5sec), should make chain dash jump combos (the single most important mechanic in the game) easier to perform now (let me know if it is still not enough).
• dashes are now cancellable on the ground by just releasing the dash button, should feel more intuitive. Air dashes still go for the full 0.5 (unless jump cancelled), changing that to require holding the button would have made air dash jump chains very hard to perform.
• some arrows were added to indicate where you need to take a bit of a leap of faith since the goal is not on screen.
• cutscenes no longer play by default between levels (you can re-enable them in the options menu).
• tutorial levels completely redesign to say less and show more.
• heat bar moved to top left and made bigger, making it more prominent.
• there is a "cheat" button in the pause menu to skip a level (but your run will not count for the leaderboard if you use it at all). if "cheat" is enabled the next time you respawn you will be by your ship.

Bugfixes:

• Some instance where background music would play multiple times. It's been all moved into a central place now and it should mostly resolve it. However, godot 4 is extremely problematic still with audio streams and there are cases where it loses track of a stream is playing in the audio server, there's little I can do in those cases. You can either restart or mute the BGM from the pause menu if you run into that.
• Multiple ghost player duplication. Respawning during meltdown was causing multiple copies of a player to spawn, breaking all sorts of things. You are blocked from doing anything during the meltdown animation now (which also adds an extra time penalty for deaths as a side effect - which is a good thing)
• Dash trail was being shown in front of the character in some cases,  now it's always behind the main sprite.
• In some situations the player could end up thin and tall after a jump, that should no longer occur.

Many thanks to the people that kindly provided feedback here and in discord  💜.

If you complete the game, don't forget to set your name on the Leaderboards!

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