Pollutechnician

[The background music is a bit wonky on browser, download the .exe if you want the best experience!]

A team of scientists just made a revolutionary pollution-absorbing machine. They're going to receive another round of research funds from the government if it proved to be impactful for the city.

... except that these machines are super unreliable! They break down every single second they run!

So they hired you, a skilled technician to keep repairing these machines. Keep people's lungs healthy and make the scientists money. Well, you're hired by them anyway.

Made for an individual game project for the Game Development course at CSUI 2026.
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/ebiyo/GameDev-Pollutechnician

Controls

• Movement: W A S D or Arrow Keys
• Interact:  E
• Repair (Timing Minigame): Space
• Adjust Needle Speed: Q (Decrease) / R (Increase)
• Pause: Esc

Diversifiers

• D33 - Bennet's Luck: Random events can increase your pollution faster
• D76 - Trade Offer: You get money at the end of each day and spend them before starting the next day
• D77 - Never Gonna Give You Up: You're keeping the pollution at a safe level (and the scientists to a certain extent...)

Credits

Assets:

• Font: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Jersey+25?preview.text=Over%20limit%2067%2F200...
• Character Sprite: https://gif-superretroworld.itch.io/character-pack
• Machine Sprite: https://allnew.itch.io/soda-and-vending-machines
  
• Background image: https://unsplash.com/photos/high-rise-buildings-under-white-clouds-during-daytim...
• Assets are modified and made with Aseprite

Music:

• https://tallbeard.itch.io/music-loop-bundle

SFX:

• Sound Effect by Jurij from Pixabay
• https://neptune-ringgs.itch.io/siren-sound-effects
• https://heltonyan.itch.io/pixelcombat
• https://jdsherbert.itch.io/ultimate-ui-sfx-pack