The Grid
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9xyHFkMprM
Intro
It's your first day as Chief Connections Engineer for the region.
There are a growing number of Data Centers being built and it's your job to connect them to The Grid. Keep the power, water, and money flowing! Failure to connect a data center in time will not be tolerated!
Description
The Grid is a small infrastructure building game about connecting and maintaining a rapidly expanding network of Data Centers.
Build power and water generation, connect buildings up with your pipe tool, and keep the economy stable. Each level rewards you with a bonus to help expand your Grid.
Controls / help
Use the Pipe Tool to connect buildings and expand The Grid.
You must connect the Data Centers and fulfil their Power/Water demand before their construction is complete.
- WASD / Cursor keys: Move the map
- Right mouse button: Drag to move the map.
- H: Return home
- ESC: Pause/menu
Project
GameDevTV 2026 Jam Entry
Theme: Connections
Team
Designed & developed by a team of 2:
- mlwgames: https://itch.io/profile/mlwgames
- cowoder: https://itch.io/profile/cowoder
2D Art Assets
- limezu: https://limezu.itch.io/
Music
- https://opengameart.org/content/old-city-theme
Sound Effects
- https://opengameart.org/content/interface-sounds-starter-pack
AI
No AI art or audio.
To try and conserve time some AI was used to help debug and fix complicated things such as map generation code.
Development log
Comments
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
Love the game, not entierly sure how I connect stuff as of yet or is somehting broken or how do I exactly use the pipe tool? Though I love the game awesome :)
Thank you! You should be able to just select the pipe tool from the side and click and drag it on the map.
Yeah, I think it was just bugged on my first run, when I came back to replay it did work :) appreciate it and keep up the great work!
Loved the comments during the game "I love the smell of disposable labour" hahah
Glad you liked them :) Thanks for checking it out!