SILO 7

SILO 7 is an entry for the GMTK Game Jam 2026 (theme: COUNT DOWN).

Built with LOVE 2D. Boulder Dash rules with a nuclear silo skin.

You are a scavenger inside Silo 7, a decommissioned nuclear vault whose automated self-destruct sequence has been triggered. Retrieve enough fuel cells to unlock the escape hatch before the timer hits zero.

Do NOT stand under a boulder after digging.

Features

• Five hand-crafted sectors, progressive difficulty
• Real countdown pressure: tick, red pulse, screen shake under 5s
• Tech-silo aesthetic: bulkhead-tiled menu, cool-steel shaft interior, monitor-face "boulders" as a wink to the anti-AI theme of the jam ("the AI falls on you")
• Ambient silo drone soundtrack + nine bfxr-style SFX
• Splash / menu / briefing / pause / gameover polish
• Standalone Windows .exe (about 11 MB with runtime DLLs)

Controls

• Arrow keys - move / dig / push boulders horizontally
• R - retry current level
• ESC - pause / resume
• Enter - confirm menus and briefings

Levels

• ORIENTATION (8 cells, 90s, tutorial)
• REACTOR (8 of 9, 80s, boulder traps)
• VENTILATION (9 of 11, 75s, central barrier)
• QUARANTINE (10 of 12, 65s, double trap layer)
• CORE (12 of 14, 60s, all together)

Credits

• Code and design: Itamde
• Fuel cell sprites (4 colour variants): Warped Sci-Fi Icons & Props Pack by Luis Zuno (@ansimuz)
• Bulkhead wall backdrop (menu + briefings): Sideview Sci-Fi - Patreon Collection by Luis Zuno (@ansimuz)
• Boulder-as-monitorface sprites (4 variants, "the AI that falls on you"): Warped City by Luis Zuno (@ansimuz)
• Dirt (Tile_74) + wall (Tile_78) tiles: Cyberpunk Market Street by Free Game Assets / CraftPix
• Explosion sprite: Will's Pixel Explosions by Will Tice / unTied Games (@untiedgames)
• SFX: bfxr-generated sound effects
• Music: mysterion low ship humming ambient loop
• Font: Press Start 2P by codeman38
• Built with LOVE 2D

Note on assets

GMTK 2026 disallows generative-AI assets in both the game and the itch page. Every asset used here - code, level design, runtime sprites, background tiles, fonts, SFX, music, and cover image - is human-authored or hand-picked from third-party asset packs with the appropriate license.

No AI-generated content is used, in-game or on the itch page.