#Robot Finds Ice Cream#
An open source puzzle game###
In this game, you play as a young child at some unspecified date in the future, far enough ahead of us that every child has a robot pet/friend/nanny, but not quite so far in the future that humans have evolved beyond the need for life-sustaining ice cream.
In this game, you're going shopping with your robot, to purchase some delicious ice cream. Unfortunately, the robot is being a little difficult today; owing to a minor design flaw in its object-avoidance programming the robot absolutely refuses to cross its own path, for fear of colliding with itself in the past.
Also unfortunately, the robot has the money. And so as the child, you must maneuver the robot to each of the vending machines in each level by either pulling on the robot’s leash or by shoving the robot, but with the robot never agreeing to cross its own path.
Also, you're inexplicably walking on floating platforms and can't move diagonally.1
The game
"Robot Finds Ice Cream" is a tile-based maneuverability puzzle game, where you’re attempting to get your robot to each of the ice cream vending machines on each level. Apologies for the small number of levels, and the distinctly programmer-created 'art',; this was originally a "game in a week" project, and all the levels were created during the last few hours of the week.
###History### Robot Finds Ice Cream was originally released on July 27, 2008. This version has been updated to compile and run with the latest version of the VectorStorm game engine.
Controls
Arrow keys (or wasd) to move, alt/option to reset the level if you become stuck. Escape will quit the game at any time.
Licenses
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Music: Coconut Monkeyrocket – Fab Cushion (used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license)
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Sound: kjackson - Register (used under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 license)
Everything else in this repository is licensed under the GNU Public License v3 or later.
Footnotes
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Because it's the future!
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