Power Grid Manager
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The Power Plant in town was hiring, and you needed a job. Surprisingly, they sat you down in front of an ancient computer terminal and told you to get to work. With technology like this, failure is inevitable! How long can you hold out?
*INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLAY* (also listed in game):
- Press they key on your keyboard that is displayed under the house to refill its "power meter"
- If a house gets a locked symbol on it, it has tripped a breaker and you must reset the correct one by clicking on the red or blue switch in the lower right
- Occasionally, your key will break after pressing it. You must click on it to fix it, or just go without that one key until you need it.
- You lose when any three houses loose power entirely and become abandoned.
Be sure to post your scores below! My best score was 20,090. How high can you get?
*POST-COMPO CHANGE LOG*
August, 03rd, 2017:
- Restricted required keys to alphanumeric keys. This should hopefully fix most issues around incompatibilities with a variety of keyboard layouts.
- Increased number of starting houses from 1 to 3. This should make the game a little more fun early on.
- Added a linear difficulty increase curve. Before, if you could hold your own with 16 houses on screen, the game would never get harder for you. Now, it will continue to get faster and harder as time goes on.
- Dead houses will now be revived if 16 houses are already on the screen. Before, if you filled the screen with houses, a couple dead houses actually made the game easier. Not anymore.
- Greatly reduced the frequency of breakers being thrown. They get thrown more often as the game continues, though.
- Keys have a chance to break even if they are pressed when no houses are displaying that key. This will punish keyspamming.
- Added the ability to mute the music while playing the game.
*INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLAY* (also listed in game):
- Press they key on your keyboard that is displayed under the house to refill its "power meter"
- If a house gets a locked symbol on it, it has tripped a breaker and you must reset the correct one by clicking on the red or blue switch in the lower right
- Occasionally, your key will break after pressing it. You must click on it to fix it, or just go without that one key until you need it.
- You lose when any three houses loose power entirely and become abandoned.
Be sure to post your scores below! My best score was 20,090. How high can you get?
*POST-COMPO CHANGE LOG*
August, 03rd, 2017:
- Restricted required keys to alphanumeric keys. This should hopefully fix most issues around incompatibilities with a variety of keyboard layouts.
- Increased number of starting houses from 1 to 3. This should make the game a little more fun early on.
- Added a linear difficulty increase curve. Before, if you could hold your own with 16 houses on screen, the game would never get harder for you. Now, it will continue to get faster and harder as time goes on.
- Dead houses will now be revived if 16 houses are already on the screen. Before, if you filled the screen with houses, a couple dead houses actually made the game easier. Not anymore.
- Greatly reduced the frequency of breakers being thrown. They get thrown more often as the game continues, though.
- Keys have a chance to break even if they are pressed when no houses are displaying that key. This will punish keyspamming.
- Added the ability to mute the music while playing the game.