Gridlock
A downloadable game
GRIDLOCK - THE STORY
You play the part of a trainee paramedic driver on your journey to become fully qualified. To achieve this you must survive 8 full days on the job in order to reach your qualification ceremony on day 9. Each day is split up in 10 emergency calls which you must attend within a set limit. Allow that time to expire, and so will the poor patient. So, why are these calls so difficult and time consuming to attend? Well, due to the busiest week that "Killum Hall Hospital" has ever seen, cars and trucks have filled the ambulance bays making a swift exit almost impossible.
It may seem easy at first but don't be deceived, the hospital is getting busier by the day making your task even harder. All the while those emergency calls are coming in thick and fast.
ARE YOU UP TO THE JOB?
FEATURES:
The game takes the format of a sliding puzzle. The play area consisting of a top-down view of the hospital car park/parking lot, and an exit road. The object of each call is to get your ambulance to the exit road by moving all the vehicles vertically or horizontally around the play area. If you succeed within the time limit then the game will proceed on to the next call.
CREDITS:
Game design and programming: Chris Stanley
Game graphics, music jingles, sfx by Roy Widding
Game music: LukHash
The Game Soundtrack is from the LukHash album "Cyberchip" (C) LukHash 2021. If you want to support LukHash, you can buy all his albums digitally on : https://lukhash.bandcamp.com/
Loader bitmap and box art: Pixelburner
Loading music originally composed by LukHash - Covered by Roy Widding
Petscii graphics for the digital instructions by Roy Widding
Instructions viewer made by Ruben Spaans
Special thanks to Docster for crunching assistance
Testers:
Eric Akeson, Katie Akeson, Roy Fielding, Vinny Mainolfi, Georg Rottensteiner, Geir Straume, Docster, Monstersgoboom and Chris Ledger
(C) Megastyle and Bitmap Soft 2024
A limited physical release is available at Bitmap Soft. If it is listed as sold out, be patient and follow their homepage for a new batch.
Bitmap Soft is a joint venture of Darren Doyle and Jamie Battison
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $4.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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This is an awesome puzzle game, one of my absolute favorites. The graphics are really cute with attention to detail, and the soundtrack contains some of the best music I've ever heard on the C64. Especially the fast tracks fit the time pressure perfectly.
The rules are totally simple. The difficulty increases slowly and gets pretty hard around level 50 or so. I'm on 64 now and looking forward to more challenges :-)
(I'm using the .d64 on an Ultimate64.)
A friend of mine finally managed Call 33. How far are you?
I have bought this Game, but it says the D64 File only works on Vice. Is there a version for The C64 Mini / The C64?
Greetings Megastyle,
we hope you are doing great. I am Areeba (aka Titania) from the BrewOtaku-Team, we are launching BrewOtaku #002 - The Homebrew Gaming Magazine soon.
We loved your work and we have featured "Gridlock (2024)” in it. Kindly share your contact details so we can share it with you. You are anyhow free to share this on your social media channels or homepage.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
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A new episode from a friend...
Hello Megastyle ! your last games Cruisin For A Bruisin and Grilock doesn't work on my C64 Maxi, do you know how to fix it (with CFG File perhaps ?) ? Thank you.
Does it feature 80 or 90 levels? :)
What a wonderful game. A friend of mine played it ... :-)
One thing I noticed when playing this nice puzzler, is that It feels like the Ambulance should be actually white, and other cars (that are now white) light grey instead of the other way round. Makes more sense to have the focus that way on your ambulance.
A small video recorded with my smartphone showing the game on my real C64. At least it proves you can make your way to level 47 :)
Enjoy!
Sorry to ask for this, but is there anyone who finished level 48 and can post a video on how to solve it? I'm stuck at level 48 for days :(
Thanks.
Very nice and innovative puzzle game with a great soundtrack by LukHash. Our German-language review can be found in our recorded livestream starting at 00:30:17. Subscription to our YouTube or Twitch channel is welcome. 🙂
6.5/10-ish
Great game and fun to play, thank you. I also added that to my New Games On C64 from March 2024 -video too.
A little gift to all players and wannabe players. The first 16 levels solved in video, even if it took me two times to finish level 16. Enjoy :)
Well, I finished day 4... Wish me luck for the second half of the game. And yes, I still have hair on my head :)
Great game, but I'm stuck at level 28... Ouch!
Very nice - this will be a challenging game
It is! Once you get to day 4 you'll be tearing your hair out on some of the levels.
Still on 33 lol.... hard as hell :)
Blocked now on level 35. Anyone win on it? My last attempt finished on a time up... I searched during 8 minutes without any luck :(
I am also now on 35 stuck too :)
I tried about 15 times to finish this level... Without luck so far. A bug in this one?
Very nice game 🙃
Brilliant game, awesome music. Just one little issue - saving games seem to be locked to device 8 so when I load it off my Ultimate cart (device 10) it insists on trying to save to my real 1541 drive (device 8). Any way around this?
Cool dos themed game!
Awesome game!