User blog:Hseiken/Another whim...

After just completing a game in 3 days on a whim, I had another whim...

I had a dream last night where I was playing a puzzle game with 3 simultaneous 'falling blocks' mini games I had to control at once. When I woke up, I quickly jotted down some ideas on how this could work and came up with a concept called ROBOT SWEAT SHOP, where you are a robot manufacturing plant manager and must oversee production of robots from converting raw materials into parts to assemble the robots to shipping robots to customers.

Indeed, this will be one brain twisting game, but I think because of the fact that each successive 'falling block' game is less and less complicated overall, that it's possible to take care of these 'side' games.

Here's a drawing with information about how the game is played. Overall, the goal is to ship x amount of robots per level. You earn money by shipping robots and lose money by wasting parts when assembling the robots (there's a 'schematics' display on screen that shows you a couple of ways you build robots.  Robot types earn more money so for the greedy player, there's more concentration involved if they want to make that cheddah!

To make EXTRA money, if you ship robots of the same type (instead of assorted and not matched up), you earn more money. I'm not sure how much of this makes sense to the person possibly reading this, but trust me, there's a plan and I intend to see it through. THANKS, DREAM. THREAM.

I intend to knock this game out in a couple of days just like ANSITRON. There's not much graphics involved, but I probably wil do some custom graphics for this one. I also plan on entering it into SmileBoom's contest that ends at the end of the month. Hopefully, they can understand the instructions...it's definitely not the average puzzle game, I think.