BeatBots by Ace

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made by Ace for LD34 (COMPO)
Welcome to the world of BeatBots, a series of simple 4-bit robots.

The robots run at 1hz, or one update per second, and execute variable length commands with between zero to four bits of data.
You've been hired to help control the robots out in the wild by feeding them commands to help them solve their tasks while avoiding dangers.

A tutorial is provided to help guide you through the whole thing, and will teach you the most important of the commands. If you want more commands to use you'll have to find them yourself. (Or check the source / GitHub)

The only two keys you'll need to play this game is 0 and 1, so make sure you have them on your keyboard.

Not that I know of any keyboards without them, but still...

PS: You can also press 'R' to reset the level if something goes wrong.

(Linux builds will hopefully come soon, but until then it's Windows only)

Ratings

Coolness 40% 1727
Overall 3.21 502
Audio 2.21 628
Fun 3.10 525
Graphics 2.68 698
Humor 2.53 399
Innovation 3.58 229
Mood 2.88 544
Theme 4.00 233

Feedback

Graydom
14. Dec 2015 路 04:03 UTC
Crashed on load up for me
Windows link

"Failed to open sound file "explode.wav" (couldn't open stream)"

Sorry about that
guigrillo13
14. Dec 2015 路 13:14 UTC
Cool game and nice use of the theme
BROWNY_09
14. Dec 2015 路 13:19 UTC
I was unable to play this unfortunately. I was missing 2 dll files and one I had then the program refused to start.
馃帳 Ace
14. Dec 2015 路 14:24 UTC
Right, you might need the Visual C++ 2015 redistributable;
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145

That could be the source of the missing DLLs (I'm guessing they were named something like MSC140.dll?)
Geukes Colin
14. Dec 2015 路 17:24 UTC
Wow, what a good entry!
Love the way you used the theme. Very well done!
Recon
14. Dec 2015 路 18:25 UTC
Extremely good! The best I've seen so far! Great idea for the theme
2011petia
14. Dec 2015 路 19:11 UTC
Wow ! nive game ! :D
AthenaOfDelphi
14. Dec 2015 路 23:12 UTC
Great use of the theme, but tricky to get the hang of the commands. Thus far, one of the best entries I've played. Nice job.
Lares Yamoir
15. Dec 2015 路 15:33 UTC
Really like the way you implemented the controls. Although I have to say the the tutorial text is in my opinion quite a bit to slow. Felt like ages until I was told how to move forward.
BloodJohn
22. Dec 2015 路 17:33 UTC
Mastered a new profession of the operator of the robot.
Brilliant idea.