Fail-Deadly
- Independent
- PC/Mac
- 2010
There are two factions at war in Fail-Deadly, and both of them are your enemy. As a shadowy third party, your goal is to goad both factions into mutually assured destruction, thus paving the way for your own nefarious scheme. It's a simple RTS in which you play both sides, trying to keep the battle alive -- but nobody victorious -- long enough for both factions' nuclear arsenals to come online.
Fail-Deadly took first place in the Ludum Dare 18 48-hour game jam competition in 2010. After Ludum Dare, I did a second development pass in which I overhauled the graphics, updated the soundtrack, and improved the game balance.
Accolades
🏆 "Fail-Deadly is ingenious and simple... a weird, exciting, distinctly non-commercial idea." -Edge Magazine
🏆 "The final result is brilliantly compelling." -Rock, Paper, Shotgun
🏆 "Nicely drawn and featuring a strong original soundtrack, Fail-Deadly is a smart twist on overused ideas, and supremely polished too. This is an excellent effort, and well worth a download." -PC Gamer
Development
Fail-Deadly was developed in Unity. This project significantly predated Unity's addition of native 2D tools, so I had to implement my own support for pixel-perfect animated sprites and texture atlassing. I also wrote the rest of the gameplay code and drew all the art. I composed a backing track for the Ludum Dare version, but commissioned a new, more varied soundtrack from John Axon for the post-Ludum Dare update.
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