WindBots by alexhonor

:notebookwithdecorative_cover: Story
Welcome to the lab! Your task is to test cute tiny wind-up robots.
- Complete puzzles by getting one bot to the goal.
- Their mechanisms run for only 10 second - we had to compromise to fit in gravity generators that let them freeze in space!
- The bots can record your every input and play it back.
Good luck!
:video_game: Controls

:art: Made by team ToxicOtter
@alexhonor - gamedesign, programming
@MoonDweller - gamedesign, programming
@renrok - art
:wrench: Bug Fixes
07.10.22
- canvas size fix (now all gameview is displayed)
- menu buttons select highlight fixed
- splash screen timing fix
08.10.22 - character draw order fix - tips font color minor fix
| ItchBuilds | https://renrok.itch.io/windbots |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/windbots |
Ratings
| Given | 3🗳️ | 4🗨️ |
I made it to the end - something that'd be cool is a timer or style points haha :grinning:

Pros:
- Pleasant graphics, straight in the mood
- The bots are insanely adorable, especially with those little legs
- Funky mechanics related to the theme
Cons:
- Is it really just me, or did only got completely bugged mechanics? Randomly respawning characters, randomly running bots etc? Maybe I completely misunderstood their movement? :)
- Wish there was any sort of sfx for Jam entry
A good job nonetheless!
I do think the controls as they currently stand are rather confusing. It seems like the spacebar both causes the character to jump, but it also starts a timer? And it seems to start a replay for the other characters? But then I wasn't able to successfully use R to run a replay for the other characters -- every time I tried, I wasn't able to run a character alongside them.
For example, on the level with the two pink walls, what I wanted to do was record one character moving to the right, and then I could just play as a new character and go stand on the button. But to do this, the only sequence of inputs that seems to work is jumping around with the first character, and then pressing e.g. 2 to switch to another character, and then pressing space to reset the first character and have the motion be replayed. If I press R, then pressing 2 resets character 1 and freezes them... and then pressing space starts the recorded motion going again...?
I don't know, I just wasn't able to get a good handle on the controls.
But the input recording system does seem to generally work pretty well. I was able to use it quite effectively once I figured out that I could control it using the spacebar. And I really do think the graphics fit the mechanics really nicely. All this game really needs is slightly easier to understand controls, and I think it would be a really easy to pick up puzzle platformer... the graphics and the gimmick really take me back to the good old Flash game days. :smile:
Really loved the graphics and mechanics. Good job!
