Dead Drop

The countryside is overrun. The chopper doesn't wait.

Dead Drop is a top-down zombie extraction shooter built for the Playdate. Scavenge crates, hold off the horde, and wind the crank to call your ride out before the clock runs out. Miss the chopper and the next round comes back harder.

HOW A ROUND WORKS

• You have 60 seconds to loot and fight across an open, procedurally generated countryside.
• When the radio window opens (10 seconds), wind the crank to call the chopper.
• It arrives a few seconds later and lands for 15 seconds. Reach it and hold for 2 seconds to extract.
• Miss it and you stay for another round, with more and tougher zombies.
• Die, and you lose half the money from that run.

CONTROLS

• D-pad: move
• Crank: aim
• A: fire
• B: special ability (chosen in the loadout and fixed for the run)

STATUS

Dead Drop is in active development. Performance is tuned for the real Playdate, but tell me if you see slowdown, along with what was on screen when it happened.

FEEDBACK

Comments are open. I'm especially interested in balance (is it too easy or too hard?) and how the crank feels.