Circuit Slimes: Prototype
Global Game Jam 2020 submission
Project Description
After 48 hours of almost uninterrupted work, a friend and I created a prototype for our very own little puzzle game about slimes and electrical engineering! Circuit Slimes is our submission to the 2020 edition of the Global Game Jam, theme “Repair”. This was our second time participating, again from the TagusPark IST campus.
What do you do with the theme “Repair”, two days of free time and unmeasurable enthusiasm? A puzzle game about little slimes that inhabit PCBs and are tasked with repairing them of course!
Gameplay
In order to complete a level, you need to get the Electricity Slimes to move through the wires until they reach the existing LEDs in the circuit board. To do this you can place food for 2 other different kinds of slime:
Solder Slimes are totally inoffensive towards their peers, in fact, their only interest seems to be consuming as much of their favorite food as they can get from you. They are really useful too since they use the food to produce connections and generate new paths for the charges to flow through. Just be careful not to feed them too much or they might burst.
Blast Slimes are the complete opposite, they are extremely vicious and prey exclusively on electric slimes so watch out because unless you distract them with some other means of sustenance they will absolutely combust and ruin the circuits. Maybe you can use this to your advantage?
Unfortunately, as is known to happen, we overestimated the time we had so we didn’t have a lot of time for making puzzles, but you can edit any of the already existing ones by changing the .csv files that come bundled in the zip.
Play it here!
The game is available to download and play on the jam page. I recommend reading the info displayed there to get a sense of how to play since there is no in-game tutorial.
Visit the jam page to play Circuit Slimes On Windows here.
Awards
Like I mentioned above, we participated from our university campus and there we had the fantastic honor of receiving two awards.
Here are looking equal parts exhausted and happy.
We are planning to expand on this idea in the future to try and make a more finished product with a bigger group of people working on it, so hopefully, I’ll have more to show on this at a later date.
Thanks for reading!
