Core Contest

Take control over a Dungeon Core and populate the dungeon with over 40 unique traps and monsters, each granting you resources, including points required to move to the next year of competition, can you become the Champion of the Depths, and win the Core Contest by reaching the 10th year? 

Core Contest is a puzzle game created for Shovel Jam 2025. The unedited version of the game, submitted for the jam is available as CoreContest - Jam Edition. Web Version is the updated version of the game. 

Keybinds

LMB - interact button
RMB - cancels dragging Summon and returns it to the previous position on the Summoning Table OR displays pop-up screen of a hovered, placed Summon.
P or R - opens pause menu
S - sells hovered summon on the Summoning Table 
Tab - highlights the production value of all summons simultaenously

Credits

The game and its art was made by me, Picarune.

Shoutouts

GodotGameLabs for creating a great series of tutorials.
Hadoc Haddockson for creating the Black-and-White-6 Palette included in this game.
Joel Steudler for composing the music used for the main theme of Core Contest.
SONNISS for maintaining Royalty Free Sound Effects Archive: GameAudioGDC.