CRANEFORMERZ — Press Kit

FACT SHEET

Developer	Splatter Games
Based in	Los Angeles, California, USA
Release	Browser demo available now. Steam and mobile planned.
Platform	Any modern browser — desktop and phone. No install, no account.
Price	Free demo
Editions	Z (Zombies) and S (Sheeps) — same game, two tones
Play	craneformers.io — Zombies · Sheeps
Engine	Three.js / WebGL, built for the browser rather than ported to it

DESCRIPTION

Carmageddon by way of a construction site.

CRANEFORMERZ puts you behind the controls of a knuckle-boom crane truck and drops you into a town overrun. You drive, you slew the boom, you drop the grapple on whatever is lying around — a shark, a cow, a port-a-potty, a giant lollipop — and you throw it. The boom itself is a weapon: swing it fast enough and it clears a street.

Kills pay out in tokens, the single currency. Tokens buy building blocks and new machines. Machines take damage and need rest to repair, so pushing one truck too hard means switching to another or sitting out the wave. Zombies navigate with real pathfinding rather than walking at you in a straight line.

It runs in a browser tab. That is the whole pitch: click a link and you are driving.

FEATURES

The crane is the weapon. Two-link inverse kinematics — you steer the grapple tip like a drone and the arm solves itself. Sweep the boom to clear a crowd.
Absurd ammunition. Sharks, cows, ice creams, lollipops, port-a-potties, other vehicles. If the grapple closes on it, it can be thrown.
Tokens as the only currency. Kills buy blocks and machines. No second economy, no premium tier.
Machines wear out. Damage is persistent and repairs take time, which pushes you toward a garage rather than one invincible truck.
Two editions. Z ships gore and a horned MEGA BOSS. S swaps blood for wool puffs and the boss for a MEGA RAM — same carnage, family-safe.
Rooms, not lobbies. Multiplayer joins by code, the way a shooter does. Or play solo against the AI.
Phone-ready. Touch controls and an on-screen boom panel, same build.
Zero assets. Every sound effect and music cue is synthesised at runtime; the whole game is code.

EDITIONS

Z — ZOMBIES

Shamblers, runners, brutes, a motorcycle zombie and a horned MEGA BOSS every fifth wave. Chunky cubes of blood. Bomber drones overhead.

S — SHEEPS

The family-friendly cut. Lambs, rams, a woolly tank and a MEGA RAM. Wool puffs instead of blood, and everything says baa. Zero gore.

SCREENSHOTS & ASSETS

The fastest way to capture footage is to play it — the demo is free, needs no account, and runs in any browser. An attract mode plays itself on the title screen if you want clean B-roll without driving.

Launch Zombies · Launch Sheeps

Press are welcome to capture and publish screenshots and video of the demo, including monetised video, without asking us first.

THE STUDIO

Splatter Games is an independent studio in Los Angeles, California. CRANEFORMERZ is its debut title.

Contact

Press, publishing and partnership enquiries go through the contact form on the main site. We read everything.