LavaHushBridge

Dusk on a volcanic island. A line of tired villagers leaves camp and heads for the houses on the far hill. They will not stop. Between them and home, rivers of lava glow and churn. You have water. Tap a stream and it hisses into a slab of dark, cracked stone. The villagers can walk across it. For a few seconds. Then the cracks begin to glow, the crust warms, and the river takes it back. Lava Hush Bridge is all about that moment. Cool a stream too early and the stone is already breaking up when someone steps on it. Too late and they walk straight into molten rock. Pulsing rings show where a villager is about to step. The glow in the cracks tells you how long a bridge has left. Fast flows, marked by drifting arrows, reheat much sooner than the slow ones. Tap between two lanes and a single crust can carry both walkers, which matters, because water is limited and spending less of it earns…