Kozma Works

KW-002 · Overheating core

Scrap Core: Overclocked

Dive into a dying reactor, build ridiculous weapons out of its scrap, and carry each other out before it melts down.

Where to play

In development for Roblox

Concept art of the Dock: a salvage camp on a steel pier at night, with the drowned reactor glowing blue on the horizon.
KW-002 · I Concept art of the Dock: a salvage camp on a steel pier at night, with the drowned reactor glowing blue on the horizon.
Designation
KW-002
Class
Overheating core
Genre
Co-op action roguelite
Platform
Roblox · Phone, tablet, PC and console, through Roblox
Players
1–4
Status
In development for Roblox
Position
Middle orbit

Under the sea there is a network of reactor nodes, and one of them is about to die. Whatever is inside it will be lost with it: recoverable technology, Core Scrap, everything the Dock above could still use. So four salvage divers take the lift down.

They are working people, not soldiers. Pale, scuffed helmets with one wide viewport and a small lamp, plates that have seen a lot of jobs. What they fight with is whatever they bolt together on the way, and the whole game is about making that improvisation fun. You never pick a bigger number. You pick a part that changes what your weapon does, and you keep changing your mind as the run goes on.

Winnable only together

Buddy Carry is the reason this game exists. When a diver goes down, someone has to pick them up and run, slowed, through a room that is still shooting at them, to a pod that can bring them back. If anyone bleeds out, the run ends for everyone. That sounds harsh, and it is the best part: every rescue is a race, and the person on your back is still firing.

Three ways to dive

Aegis holds the line, and runs faster with someone on their shoulders. Volta jams the machines and throws lightning. Medic lays a healing foam that slows whatever walks through it. It doesn’t take long for players to discover that electricity reacts with foam.

Where it stands

Scrap Core is in development for Roblox, where the Kozma Works group will publish it.

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What makes it

  1. The Core fires, the Capacitor shapes, the Catalyst reacts

    A build is one of each. A Nail Driver whose nails ricochet off the walls, say, with a Catalyst that throws a lightning arc whenever you revive someone. There is no “+5% damage” anywhere.

  2. Buddy Carry

    At zero health you go limp. A teammate shoulders you and runs for a decompression pod, and you keep shooting from their back. The carrier picks the route; the passenger covers it.

  3. The Warden is the reactor

    The node you dive into is the Boiler Warden’s body. Its lights, vents and maintenance machines notice you, heat up and fight back, and the boss room is its last defence.

  4. Meltdown

    Cut the core loose and the node starts to go. Floodwater, steam, alarms, and at least a minute’s run to the lift, with whoever fell carried on someone’s shoulders.

  5. Short dives

    A Standard run takes 15 to 18 minutes; a Short Run about six. Made for phones first, and just as playable on PC and console.

  6. Looks for sale, power never

    Classes and weapon parts are earned by playing. The shop sells diver and Core skins, and every one of them can be earned with scrap too.

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Trailer

REC ○ Trailer in production

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Plates

  • In-game capture: a diver in a dark reactor room, with the banner MELTDOWN, REACH THE LIFT and a 48-second countdown.
    Fig. 1 The escape. The banner says it all, and the clock only goes one way.
  • Concept art of the Boiler Warden, a squat four-legged reactor chassis with a glowing orange core and heavy clamp arms.
    Fig. 2 Concept art. The Boiler Warden’s last containment chassis.
  • In-game capture: a top-down view of a reactor room lit by red emergency light, with barrels and a diver in a pool of lamplight.
    Fig. 3 Inside the node. Emergency lighting comes on as the Warden heats up.
  • Concept art of a salvage diver in a dark work suit with pale, scuffed armour plates.
    Fig. 4 Concept art. A working salvage diver, not a soldier.

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