BULKHEAD

Control the crowd, not a single survivor. A space station is losing pressure — vacuum creeps section by section through every open bulkhead, and dozens of people are trapped. You have no direct control over them. You command only the bulkhead doors: open them to herd the panicking mass toward evacuation, close them to seal off the vacuum. But a closed door traps everyone behind it too — and a panicking crowd will tear it off its hinges.

Hull-breach waves hit on a timer, each with a short warning. Seal the doomed sections, reroute the flow, and get enough people to the evac zone before the vacuum — or the clock — beats you. This is Mass Control: you never touch one person, you conduct the movement of the whole mass by opening and closing channels.

Made for the EdenSpark Mass Control Game Jam. ▶ Play the EdenSpark version here.

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How to Play

Controls: Operate the bulkheads from the command console — type OPEN [id] or CLOSE [id] (e.g. OPEN 6), or STATUS for a report. Optionally enable click-to-toggle doors in Settings.

• Open doors route the crowd automatically toward evacuation — you just manage the flow.
• A closed door blocks the vacuum and your people — don't trap survivors.
• Closed doors under crowd pressure lose HP and can break open.
• Depressurized rooms kill anyone left inside — watch the HULL FAILURE IMMINENT alerts.
• ESC — pause (you can still operate doors while paused). Hold R (3s) — restart.

Win: Evacuate at least the target 60 of people before the timer runs out.
Lose: Miss the quota before time ends or everyone is processed.
Session length: One attempt ≈ 2 minutes.

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Credits

• Team: Furrex, Da4nick
• Music: "Echoes of Time v2" — Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — CC BY 4.0
• Fonts:
  • GNU Unifont 
  • Retro Gaming — Vasily Draigo (Daymarius), dafont.com

  AI disclosure: AI-assisted coding and AI-image tools were used during development.