Elderwake

GAME BRIEF

What's the game?

Jesse Blasengame took mrdoob's open-source Slop New York, a whole Manhattan you can walk, drive and fly around, and filled it with kaiju. Pick a mech in the hangar (the steel Silver Hawk or Orochi, bone-white with red seams and horns), deploy, and fight wave by wave with a cannon, missiles, a laser, a beam, a melee slash, jets and a boost, with tanks, helicopters, soldiers and flying dragons in the fight too. Our drop put us at Fifth Avenue and 37th Street with Voraxis, a kaiju lit up in green, already walking down the avenue through the traffic. Clearing a wave drafts an upgrade. The maker ships something new nearly every day: multiplayer on October 27, a new kaiju on wave 4 the day after, and Tokyo on the way.

BEFORE YOU PLAY

What to expect

Free, no account, no ads; a PayPal tip link sits in the corner. About 17 MB to get into a match, most of it the mech and kaiju models. It's an alpha, the maker's word, and it changes daily. The menu has CO-OP; we haven't tried it. The city is mrdoob's open-source Slop New York. The maker made the kaiju and mech models with Meshy and the soundtrack with Mureka, had Claude Opus animate the rigged models, and says the rest came from 'feeding Opus tokens'. Also on itch.io at morlight.itch.io/elderwake.

Controls: From the in-game bar: left click or F fire, 1-4 pick cannon, missile, laser or beam, R next weapon, G slash, Space jets, Left Shift boost, X shield, Z ability, 5 next ability, T taunt, right mouse orbit view, V camera, Tab mouse look, P menu.