// THE MISSION

It's 9:00 AM. A catastrophic power surge has overloaded the building's main server — RACK-9000 — sending a massive electromagnetic pulse through every networked device in the office. Every employee caught near a terminal has been zombified, their minds overwritten by an endless loop of support tickets and reply-all emails.

You alone were in the IT Dept's Faraday-shielded supply cupboard. Now you must fight through 4 floors of office hell, reach the data centre, and shut RACK-9000 down before the surge spreads further.

Each floor ends at a SERVER ROOM door — touch it to descend deeper into the building.

// CONTROLS

DESKTOP:

• ← →  move
• SPACE  jump
• X  swing keyboard (melee)
• Z  throw ethernet cable (ranged)
• C  drink coffee

MOBILE: on-screen Diamond — top is CAF, right is ATK, bottom is JMP, left is CBL.

// SYSADMIN HP

Your health bar. Drops to zero and your shift ends. Restored by drinking coffee

// CAFFEINE METER

Your secondary resource. Refilled by picking up coffee mugs dropped through the level or off zombies.

• Press C (or tap CAF) to drink.
• Costs 25 caffeine per drink.
• Restores +18 HP.
• Grants a brief moment of invulnerability (~0.5s).

Tip: chug coffee mid-fight to tank a hit you couldn't avoid.

// KEYBOARD (MELEE)

Press X to swing your industrial-strength mechanical keyboard. Hits everything in front of you in a short arc. Fast attack with brief cooldown.

// ETHERNET CABLES (RANGED)

Press Z to whip a cable across the screen. Ammo system:

• Magazine: 5 cables at a time.
• Reload: 5 seconds to fully restock.
• Reload kicks in automatically once you've used at least one cable.
• HUD shows CABLES X/5 and the reload countdown when active.

Tip: cables are perfect for chipping bosses or thinning a crowd before melee. Use them wisely — five seconds is a long time mid-fight.

// PICKUPS

• Coffee mug — refills caffeine meter (+22).
• Sticky-note ticket — bonus score (+5 tickets closed).

Found on platforms and dropped by defeated zombies (drop rate scales with difficulty).

// ENEMIES

• Generic zombie users — slow, mutter random support tickets at you.
• Aggressive sales zombies — faster, slightly more HP.
• Forklift-driver zombies — fastest movement.
• FLOOR BOSSES — one per floor. Each has unique attacks. You'll know one when you see one.

// DIFFICULTY

• INTERN — easy mode. More HP, less damage taken, more drops.
• SYSADMIN — standard. Recommended.
• ON-CALL — brutal. Less HP, more damage taken, fewer drops, faster bosses.

// SCORING

Tickets closed = your score. Earn +25 per zombie kill, +250 per boss, and +5 per stray ticket pickup.

// SYSTEM CONTROLS

• ♪ ON / OFF — top right corner. Toggles all music and sound effects.
• ⛶ FS — fullscreen. On mobile, also locks orientation to landscape.