robot friends

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.43
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.17
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.14
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.17
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.14
Mood★★★★★★★★★★1.80
Community★★★★★★★★★★1.60
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.

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Comments18

Per19 Dec 2011, 12:13
Are you going to port it to Windows or Web?
cappelnord
cappelnord19 Dec 2011, 12:56
Couldn't really figure out how to play it. A short introduction to the basic control mechanics would help! Idea is neat though.
dwrensha
dwrenshaauthor20 Dec 2011, 16:20
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
rawbits20 Dec 2011, 17:52
No Windows or Web version... :(
FrozenCow21 Dec 2011, 19:36
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.
bms21 Dec 2011, 19:50
maybe you could make a gameplay video?
dwrensha
dwrenshaauthor22 Dec 2011, 04:54
@FrozenCow: No, there is no Windows version yet. The "game.exe" file is the linux executable.
iforce2d23 Dec 2011, 06:52
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
SonnyBone23 Dec 2011, 07:59
Maybe post a video?
dwrensha
dwrenshaauthor23 Dec 2011, 16:10
Yes, for now the game only has one level.
Mjiig24 Dec 2011, 13:32
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
J24 Dec 2011, 13:47
It seems to depend on GMP 3, which is >10 years old, and I don't seem to be able to compile it.
dwrensha
dwrenshaauthor27 Dec 2011, 01:40
I've uploaded a new linux version that does not depend on GMP.
summaky
summaky27 Dec 2011, 16:39
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
angrygeometry30 Dec 2011, 09:34
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
NeiloGD6 Jan 2012, 12:57
Couldn't really figure out how to play this either, good idea but a video or tutorial would be helpful.
callidus
callidus7 Jan 2012, 14:49
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.
dwrensha
dwrenshaauthor7 Jan 2012, 19:00
Thanks for the tip, callidus. I've upload a new version that statically links to libesd.

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