Tephra Toil

As a vulcanologist of the future you have an advanced system for scanning tephra as it is thrown from the volcano.

In order to complete your research you must scan all the types of tephra and escape the volcano with your precious research.

Controls

• Movement — ⬅️ ➡️
• Dive —  ⬇️ (for fun!)
• Start / restart at game over — ❎ / X

Get close to the rising tephra in order to scan it, the more you scan the closer you get to completing your research and furthering humanity's understanding of hot flying rock.

Game Jam

This is an entry for the sixteenth Eggplant Community Game Jam #16 where the theme is "Falling Deep". The source for the cart can be be found in this pico8-carts repo.

References

The word "tephra" refers to the fragmented material thrown from volcanic eruptions.

Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tephra

Thanks

This is the fifth game I've completed and released, I hope you enjoy it!

Huge thanks to Gruber for the beautiful game music which is the "Nostalgia" track from Pico-8 Tunes Volume 1.

Thanks to Lexaloffle for making PICO-8, it was a real pleasure to work with.

A big thank you to the Eggplant Show community who inspired me to make another game and have given great feedback along the way.

License

All source and assets are licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/