Ludum Dare 60: Old Tech. An old mossy robot, a forgotten drill, and the energy buried under the forest.
Old tech, asleep under the moss
My entry for Ludum Dare 60, October 2026. The theme was "Old Tech", and I took it literally. An old mossy robot wakes up in the forest, next to an abandoned forge, and finds under it the forgotten machines that once ran on an energy nobody remembers.
Seva is a digging game in pixel art. Drive an ancient Drill along its rail, lower its head through the strata, bring back the scraps of old tech you find down there, and forge them into upgrades until the Drill reaches the reserve of Seva glowing deep under the forge.
Screenshots from the jam build
A robot under the moss
Spring comes back, the moss shivers and an old robot stands up. It walks to the forge cabin built on stilts at the edge of the clearing, where an ancient Drill sleeps on its rail, plugged to the forge by a long cable.
Roll, lower, dig, reel
Press E to board the Drill. Roll along the rail with A and D, hold S to lower the head and bite into the ground, press R to reel it back up with everything it found. The Drill drinks from its own tank: a sight glass on its head blinks red when it runs low, and the Drill rolls home to the forge quay to refuel.
Scraps of old tech
Nuts, bolts, copper wire, gears, pistons, belts, bearings, filament bulbs, coils, relays, batteries and capacitors. Each layer of the ground hides the parts of its own era: the deeper you dig, the older and stranger the tech you bring back up.
Turn finds into upgrades
Empty the bucket at the forge quay, then step inside. Your finds land on the forge lots, and a complete lot mounts a new evolution on the Drill: the Drill Bit, the Regulator that saves energy, the Side Bit to dig sideways, the Lamp for the dark, extra baskets to carry more, and the Drill Bit II and the Great Engine to pierce the hardest rock.
Down to the Seva reserve
Humus, clay, rock, deep rock: every stratum is harder than the last, and only a stronger bit gets through. Underground it is dark, so the Lamp matters. At the bottom, under the forge, sleeps the reserve of Seva. Break into it and the old energy climbs the shaft back to the forge.
Credits
Godot 4 (GDScript) and the Fox toolkit. Font Kenney Mini and the Kenney Cursor Pixel Pack by Kenney (CC0), god rays shader by pend00 (CC0).
Godot Engine
Fox toolkitMy game jam entry for Ludum Dare 60, theme "Old Tech", made in Godot with pixel art and a forest that turns through its seasons while you dig.
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