Chasm Warden

You're the warden and you're armed with BOMBS! Your job - protect the world from the evil beasts trying to escape from the Chasm! Luckily for you, the Chasm is surrounded by twisting and winding tunnels with tall walls. Throw bombs at the creatures to blow them up, line up multiple of the same creature next to one another in the tunnel to blow them up together and get bonus points!

This is an actual Atari Lynx game, so you will need an Atari Lynx emulator to play it or use one of the many Flash/SD or Homebrew carts to play it on a real Lynx.

About

This game is made for the LynxJam 2023 game jam, a 3 week long game jam without final rankings for no other purpose but to have some fun and make some Xmas cheer!  

How to Play

In this game you throw bombs at creatures to blow them up. Creatures spawn in the middle of the play field and can will move either up or down. When a creature is spawned, other creatures in front of it will move to make space. Creatures move one at a time until there's space for a creature to exit the Chasm! The creatures move in a zig-zag pattern, to stay between the walls of the play field.

If you line up multiple of the same kind of creature together, you can blow them all up with a single bomb and get bonus points. The more creatures you line up, the higher the bonus. Explosions only propagate along the tunnel. If there are two of the same creature on opposite sides of a wall, they will not explode together.

Your bombs are replenished by your sidekick (who pops up at the bottom of the screen). You can store three bombs on each side of the Chasm maze. The available bomb count is shown next to the bomb.

Controls - Game Options Screen

A or B to start the game. Pressing A will start the game in 'HERO' mode where a random number of creatures will already be in the tunnels when you start and your bombs will not replenish as quickly. Pressing B will start the game in 'WIMP' mode - no creatures at the start and instant bomb replenishment.

Controls - In Game

Use the left or right to change the side where you throw the bomb from.

Use up or down to move the bomb up and down.

Press A to throw the bomb.

Press Pause to pause the game and show the stats screen.

Press OPT2 to toggle music on/off.

Atari Lynx Development

If you are interested in developing your own games for Atari Lynx, check out the Lynx Dev Wiki. Lynx is one of the easiest retro game consoles to get started coding with, so if you have an idea for a game, don't hold back, code it for the Lynx!