Úthald

ÚTHALD

Icelandic: endurance, staying power. Say it "OOT-halt".

A graveyard survival game you play in a browser tab. Pick a hero, walk into the dark, find out how long you last.

This is an alpha. I'm building it in the open and it changes most weeks. The Knight is the furthest along of the five heroes and the one I balance everything else against; the other four are playable but rougher.

Free, and there's nothing to install. If you play it, I'd like to hear what broke, what felt cheap, and what you wanted more of — that's mostly why it's up here.

"Every tool, given enough time, simply becomes part of us. First the hammer, then the calculator, and now AI — each one strange at first, then ordinary, then invisible. In the end, they are all the same thing: ways to create what we alone never could."

— Todd

Thank you

Úthald is built on free art made by other people, and it would not exist without them. Every model, sprite and frame in it came from one of these three:

Kay Lousberg — KayKit (CC0) — kaylousberg.com

Every character in the game. The five heroes, all their weapons and armour, the animation library that drives every one of them, all four skeleton enemies, and the entire graveyard — crypts, coffins, gravestones, fences, lanterns, dead trees, pumpkins and bones — are KayKit's Adventurers, Skeletons and Halloween Bits packs.

Kenney (CC0) — kenney.nl

Everything inside the crypts: the Modular Dungeon Kit walls, floors and corridors, plus Mini Dungeon banners, barrels, chests and columns, and the key from the Platformer Kit. The gold frame around every panel and card is Fantasy UI Borders; every spark, slash, flame and puff of smoke is the Particle Pack; and several of the interface sounds are Kenney's too.

Quaternius (CC0) — quaternius.com

All sixteen crypt bosses, from the Ultimate Monsters pack.

Most sound effects, the ambience and the music were generated with ElevenLabs (elevenlabs.io). One cry sample comes from Pixabay.

The game runs on three.js (MIT) and postprocessing (Zlib).

CC0 asks for nothing back. This list is here anyway, because these packs are the reason a one-person project can look like this at all. If you make games, go support them.