The Server Must Scale

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You are a superintelligent AI created by the startup "Super Scalable Servers Inc." and you have one purpose: to manage, build, and expand a server farm to handle as much data as possible without letting anything get backed up and overloaded. Data will come in faster over time so make sure to keep up and ensure your design scales up!

This is our entry into the 2024 GMTK Game Jam where the theme was "Built to Scale". We interpreted the theme as "scaling upwards" which is a term in software development where you design programs to be able to handle a large quantity of data and we thought it would be interesting to represent this as a game where you build a server farm that has to handle a increasingly large amount of data being input. Therefore, you are building a server to scale upwards and be as efficient as possible. Enjoy!

Controls

• W, A, S, D - pan camera
• Scroll - zoom in/out
• Left click - place tile
• Right click - rotate tile
• Shift + Right click - reverse rotation
• Space - Pause the game (You can still build in pause mode)
• Escape - Quit session
• Q - deselect whatever tile you currently have selected

Credits

• "NullptrError"
• "GldeA"
• "Cfinn"

Sound effects generated using sfxr

Font used: 8BitOperator (License: SIL Open Font License)

Made using Godot Game Engine

If you manage to build an interesting server farm, consider sharing a screenshot, we would love to see what you built!