C.A.T.B.O.T. Circuit Builder - Demo

C.A.T.B.O.T. needs your help! Our little friend played a bit too roughly with our circuit boards, and now he must fix them. His success is up to you and your willingness to help! Build the circuit boards back up to their full, pristine glory node by node, and both you and our rowdy friend will be having a celebratory nap in no time.

This game was originally created for the GM48 jam and you can find it here! The current v.1.0.1 contains five tutorial stages.

Controls

Click and drag C.A.T.B.O.T. in order to aim. He will target the closest node to your trajectory automatically. The further you drag him from his current node, the longer the range within which he can target other nodes!

Release the mouse button and C.A.T.B.O.T. will launch towards the targeted node, correcting course as he flies gracefully over the circuit board. Be careful of microchips, as he will bounce off of them, and his target may change!

Press ESC to pause the game, and Enter or click to resume, or ESC again to quit.

Dangers

Unfortunately for C.A.T.B.O.T. rebuilding the boards he messed up isn't as simple as waltzing accross and welding the traces back on. He faces two kinds of dangers as of this build: electricity, and bugs!

Electricity, much like the microchips, is an impassable obstacle, however unlike the microchips, colliding with an electric current will hurt C.A.T.B.O.T. Be careful around the sparks!

Cockroaches have also found their way onto the pile of broken boards. Touching them will also hurt C.A.T.B.O.T., however launching yourself into them will squish them!

Once hurt, C.A.T.B.O.T.'s emergency systems will kick in and he will gain invulnerability for a short time. Make good use of it!

Stages

There are currently five tutorial stages in this build. They explain the controls and dangers C.A.T.B.O.T. will face while trying to build the circuit boards, and will walk you through these explanations much more organically than a text description ever could.

All you need to do to complete a stage is to fix the minimum required nodes for the exit plug to connect, There are convenient lights on the plug to indicate how many nodes you still need to build before you can move on! Once you have the requisite number, all you need to do is head to the exit node, and launch yourself out of there.

You may notice there is a score at the end of each stage. C.A.T.B.O.T. wants to do a good job and will rank his performance as he goes through each stage: one paw for doing the bare minimum, two paws for either fixing all nodes or squishing all the bugs, and three paws for doing both!

Can you help him gain three paws on all stages?

Credits

Thank you for playing our game and we hope you liked it! Here are the people responsible for creating it:

Team SunForge

• Programming: GyD Geza
• Art: Punpkin GyDParise
• Sound design: Pumpkin GyDParise

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