CodePatch

You have just landed an internship at MicroTech, one of the biggest technology corporations in the world. Your job is simple: maintain a legacy codebase and patch any bugs that might show up. The only problem is that there are *a lot* of bugs and nobody has touched the code in the past 3 decades. After facing these problems, MicroTech decided that you must instead confront the bugs in a more direct fashion: by uploading your mind to the Matrixverse and fixing the program there!

Your goal for each level is to collect <3> patch files that contain the data needed to fix a bug and you need to avoid the various hazards of the Matrixverse, such as hostile cyberbugs and corrupted memory. By the way, if you die in the Matrixverse you die in real life as well so... be careful.

This was created for a game jam at my University over spring break - I started about 3 days late so I only had about 4 days to make something. The theme was "Patchwork" and one of my thoughts when hearing that was "*work*ing on *patch*ing bugs" in software development so I decided to make a roguelite game loosely themed around that. This is what  I came up with. I personally think it turned out quite nicely, and I hope you have fun playing CodePatch. 

You can browse the source code on GitHub.

Credits

By Nullptr Error (yours truly)

Music by Bogart VGM (third party, does not endorse or support this project at all), licensed under the CC-BY 4.0 license. Downloaded from https://opengameart.org/content/neon-action.

You can see other third party artwork/resources used in the credits.txt file that you can download.

Frequently Asked Questions

Actually, I haven't been asked any questions at the moment of this writing so I'm just making these up.

Q: Why do I instantly die when I touch a bug? That's too punishing.
Personally, I think that dying instantly upon touching a bug is a healthy reminder of our fragile mortality in this world. Also this game is for le epic pro gamers only so git gud.

Q: Wait, how come I can get my bullets to do 0 damage or shoot 0 bullets??
Haha you actually ended up buying an upgrade that did that? Well, what did you expect to happen? Looks like you're in for a pacifist run ;)

Q: Why do I die randomly in the game?
It's to simulate how people in the real world randomly combust or something. I don't know man, I made this game in 4 days and there might be bugs. Considering that this game is about patching bugs, all bugs that you find in this version are canon and are part of the experience.

Q: Uploading my mind to the Matrixverse sounds kind of dangerous...
Well, you signed that contract, so quit being a baby. Now quick, put on the upload helmet before those pesky government regulators show up!