3D tower defense

Deadlane

Hold the lane. The breach is open and the Scourge is already coming.

You are the Wardens, and the line is yours to hold. The Scourge floods every chokepoint in numbers no charge could ever clear — so you build, you wall, and you bleed the horde dry. Every lane held is a generation bought.

PrototypeThe Wardens

Play on deadrot.com Source

Shows how to turn a tiny grid prototype into a readable tower-defense loop.

Build path

Play the build, then inspect the work.

Runtime code and shipped game assets stay in the Deadrot repo. This page deep-links to the playable build, source branch, skill library, Ship Shit Show archive, and finished-product gate without copying the game into the studio site.

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Core loop

What the build delivers.

Hold the chokepoint

Each level is a named lane. Lay down Warden tech, break the swarm's density, and make the breach pay for every step.

Draft and synergize

Wave pressure earns scrap, scrap funds 1-of-3 tower and commander drafts, and the right builds chain into something brutal.

One war, two fronts

Shares the horde and the look of Scourge Survivors — where they go in, you keep the wall standing behind them.

Playable operators

Pick your way into the breach.

Tower builder

Field Engineer

Turns broken ground into a defendable lane.

Compact utility silhouette
Tower-control tablet, baton, or wrist rig
Tool harness and repair clamps

Heavy defender

Lane Gunner

Stay planted and let the Scourge break itself on the line.

Broad, planted stance
Heavy weapon with ammo feed
Reinforced knee braces and shoulder plates

Shield and barricade specialist

Wallwright

Builds the last wall before a lane becomes a grave.

Square heavy silhouette
Shield emitter backpack
Deployable barricade anchors on arms or belt

Known threats

What the breach sends at you.

swarm

Swarm Ripper

It dies in one hit. There are forty more behind it.

Rushes the closest target on sight, attacking with blade-like forearms.
Dies fast but builds relentless pressure through sheer mass.
Hunched-forward silhouette with clear claws reads instantly in a crowd.

swarm

Swarm Spitter

It won't come to you. It'll just make standing still fatal.

Keeps its distance, firing toxic projectiles to flush you out of cover.
Supports melee swarms by forcing constant repositioning.
Thinner than a Ripper; the firing organ is the obvious tell.

breach-boss

Breach-Boss

Not a bigger soldier. A monster grown around a wound in the world.

Holds a major breach or region as the encounter centerpiece.
Combines melee pressure with ranged barrages.
Shields around its core and enrages when wounded.

Production assets

Shipped pixels, not concept art.

10 assets in the catalog

Deadlane cover pixel art asset — Deadlane covercover

Breach-Boss pixel art asset — Breach-Bossentity-variant

Graft-Breacher pixel art asset — Graft-Breacherentity-variant

Rot-Engine pixel art asset — Rot-Engineentity-variant

Render pixel art asset — Renderentity-variant

Swarm Spitter pixel art asset — Swarm Spitterentity-variant

Swarm Ripper pixel art asset — Swarm Ripperentity-variant

Field Engineer pixel art asset — Field Engineerentity-variant

Lane Gunner pixel art asset — Lane Gunnerentity-variant

Wallwright pixel art asset — Wallwrightentity-variant

Roadmap

The board is public.

Every slice of this build is tracked on the open project board. The counts below come straight from it — no marketing math.

Open board Readiness issue

9Backlog

0In Progress

0Human Review

0Done

0Deferred

BacklogValidate canonical @shipshitgames/engine with Deadlane
BacklogScaffold Deadlane app
BacklogDeadlane grid system
BacklogDeadlane creep pathfinding
BacklogDeadlane tower system

Build log

Watch the build.

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Fight for The Wardens.

Every wall held is a generation bought.

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