Redundancy is not enough
A downloadable game for Windows
Make sens of the Space Shuttle computers to avoid debris during a solar storm.
I'm aware that the game is confusing and doesn't communicate well what is expected from the player. I still chose to submit the game, and try to make it a "polished" game, as I have failed to properly finish games in other game jams.
I'm going to explain things here, just in case somebody can't progress and want to go to the end (there is nothing special at the end).
There are 5 "stages", each level is 5 turns: you need to succeed 5 turn to progress to the next level. On each turn you need to press a direction, and if you pressed the correct one, you progress to the next turn. If you don't, you "loose" one turn, but you'll never go back to previous stages. The game display 5 directions at the bottom of the screen which are the output of the 5 computers of the shuttle. On each stage (not turn) the 5 computers will change how they work (the idea is they are hit by a solar flare, and don't function properly).
So each stage you need to figure out what direction to press based on the output of the computers. The "strategy" is to figure out the pattern of 1 computer and interpret its output to get the correct direction to press. There might be several computer that produce useful information, but except for one stage (4), there is no need to use several computer to figure the correct direction.
- On the first stage, the computer give the correct direction.
- On the second stage, one computer always give the same direction (not useful), and the other computers always give the inverse direction.
- On the third stage, two computer always give the same direction (not useful), and three computer give the correct direction on the horizontal axis, and the inverted direction on the vertical axis.
- On the fourth stage, the correct direction is the one that is never given by the computers.
- On the fifth stage, 3 computers always give the same direction (not useful), and 2 give a direction at 90° counter-clockwise.
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