“A literary solution to a binary problem”
As an assignment for Game Design class, we had to redesign Hopscotch. Having sprained my ankle only days prior to working on the assignment, I knew that digital hopscotch was the only way to go. Cactus, who has been consistently churning out great games almost every other week, primarily uses Game Maker, so I thought I’d give the thing a shot. Due to time though, the end result was a bit (very) lacking, so I took a page out of the Tim Schafer’s book and tried to solve some of my design problems with a bit of prose.
Hop lives in a world where robots have taken over the world. In order to retaliate for the human cause, he must upload viruses to all the mainframe robot computers, deep in the earth’s molten lava core. But the evil robots anticipate his moves, setting up a honey-pot (booby trapping one of the computers). Hop must jump from computer to computer, and upload each virus in the correct order, all the while avoiding both lava and honey-pots. He must do this four times, because four is the number of true death.
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