Treats for Charybdis

throw your used car batteries in the ocean

it's safe and legal

Our submission for Ludum Dare 57!

Treats for Charybdis is a single-player party game about throwing car batteries into the ocean. Get a good spin in, let your car battery go and watch it fly, navigate around obstacles with gentle nudges, and rack up a high score!

As of 2025-04-09, a web build is available. There are no changes beyond the jam version in this build besides compensating for missing built-in shader uniforms in the compatibility renderer and adding an alternate pause button. This version has freezes when loading a scene for the first time, lower resolution shadows, and missing terrain shadows underwater.

Controls

• Space - Hit skill check
• Home row keys (as prompted) - Nudge car battery
• Escape (or Tab in web build) - Pause game

Tools used:

• Godot 4.4
• Blender
• Materialize
• Aseprite
• Krita
• GIMP

Credit:

• fragskye - Programming, shaders (incl. volumetric fog & ocean)
• Numinous - Character model, rigging, poses
• Meowerzzz - Environment art
• Caeden117 - Programming
• JoyceIsDrawing - 2D character art

Source code