robot friends by dwrensha

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made by dwrensha for LD22 (COMPO)
You find yourself alone in a room with some programmable robots. Can you use them to help you escape? Watch out! Their playback facilities use dead reckoning and are thus prone to accumulate error.


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The linux version might only work if you have glibc 2.11.

Ratings

Coolness 0% 685
Overall 2.43 466
Community 1.60 666
Fun 2.17 429
Graphics 2.14 512
Innovation 4.14 11
Mood 1.80 529
Theme 2.17 510

Feedback

Per
19. Dec 2011 路 12:08 UTC
Are you going to port it to Windows or Web?
cappelnord
19. Dec 2011 路 12:51 UTC
Couldn't really figure out how to play it. A short introduction to the basic control mechanics would help! Idea is neat though.
馃帳 dwrensha
20. Dec 2011 路 16:15 UTC
Use the arrow keys. When you touch the side of a block, you record a sequence of actions for it until it collides with something.
rawbits
20. Dec 2011 路 17:47 UTC
No Windows or Web version... :(
FrozenCow
21. Dec 2011 路 19:31 UTC
The Linux version IS the Windows version it seems! (I'm on Linux and was surprised by an 'game.exe' without a Linux executable) So if you're on Windows, just download from the 'Linux' link.
bms
21. Dec 2011 路 19:45 UTC
maybe you could make a gameplay video?
馃帳 dwrensha
22. Dec 2011 路 04:49 UTC
@FrozenCow: No, there is no Windows version yet. The "game.exe" file is the linux executable.
iforce2d
23. Dec 2011 路 06:47 UTC
Awesome idea. I think it could quickly become quite difficult for the average human to manage though :)
I won... is it just the one level?

To clarify for others, when you touch a block from the top nothing happens, but when you touch them from the side they become active. While they are active you can control them, and the timing of your key presses will be recorded, until they bump against something else, then control goes back to your little man. You can record a different sequence of controls for each block. To play the sequence you then touch the green button on the left. Hint - to get on top of a block you'll have to leave a pause at the beginning of the sequence to give you enough time to get from the green button over to the block and get on top.

I think it would be better if the little man did not slide off the blocks so easily when they move left/right.
SonnyBone
23. Dec 2011 路 07:54 UTC
Maybe post a video?
馃帳 dwrensha
23. Dec 2011 路 16:05 UTC
Yes, for now the game only has one level.
Mjiig
24. Dec 2011 路 13:27 UTC
This is a really interesting concept, but once I realised what I had to do to win the level, I couldn't really be bothered to do it. I think a few more levels and something of a difficulty curve would help here.
Are you planning on a post-LD?
(Also it's conventional to give linux executables no extention, definitely not a .exe)
J
24. Dec 2011 路 13:42 UTC
It seems to depend on GMP 3, which is >10 years old, and I don't seem to be able to compile it.
馃帳 dwrensha
27. Dec 2011 路 01:35 UTC
I've uploaded a new linux version that does not depend on GMP.
summaky
27. Dec 2011 路 16:34 UTC
I didn't understand how to control the game until, by chance, I touched the green block and then all made sense. Unfortunately, the game is very hard to win and the way the player slides when the robot moves left or right doesn't make things any easier. It is very innovative, though.
angrygeometry
30. Dec 2011 路 09:29 UTC
i'm afraid i'm not on the right system for this! a video would be cool, like other said, to get a feel of what the game is like!
NeiloGD
06. Jan 2012 路 12:52 UTC
Couldn't really figure out how to play this either, good idea but a video or tutorial would be helpful.
callidus
07. Jan 2012 路 14:44 UTC
cant get this to work on linux (Ubuntu 11.10) wants libesd.so.0, please consider using the "ldd" command to list needed libs and package them with the binary.
馃帳 dwrensha
07. Jan 2012 路 18:55 UTC
Thanks for the tip, callidus. I've upload a new version that statically links to libesd.