Play Game

• Game occurs on 2D plane with player, enemies, printers, and supply cabinets.
• The printer occasionally break, requiring the player to move over to them and fix them using supplies from the supply cabinet.
• The players goal is to keep the printers working while avoiding the enemies.
• Printers left broken build up the print queue.
• Filling the print queue ends the game.

Player Movement

• Player moves up, down, left, and right with the corresponding arrow keys.
• Player is bounded by the edges of the screen (cannot wrap) nor can he move through printers, supply cabinets, or enemies.

Enemy Movement

• Enemies move in a reckless fashion about the screen (though later versions may change this behavior).
• They cannot wrap or move through printers or supply cabinets.

Player-Enemy Collisions

• When the first generation enemies collide with the player, they disappear and the players movement is temporarily slowed.
• The fallen enemies respawn randomly on the screen when they die.

Printer

• Printers are stationary and break at random intervals.
• While the printer is broken, it adds to the print queue.

Fixing Printers

• To fix a broken printer, the player must pick up a wrench from the supply cabinet and then collide with the malfunctioning printer.
• Doing so fixes the printer and uses up the wrench.

Print Queue

• The print queue increases in size whenever there is a broken printer.
• The more broken printers, the faster the print queue fills.
• If the print queue is ever full, the game ends.
• During the game, any time all printers are working, the print queue will slowly decrease.

Supply Cabinet

• The supply cabinet is a stationary object.
• When the player collides with a supply cabinet he obtains a wrench if he does not already posses one.
• Colliding with the supply cabinet has not effect on any player already in possession of a wrench.
• A player may only carry one wrench at a time.

Score

• The player’s score is simply the amount of time that he has survived without the print queue filling.

-- RyanRiegel - 02 Feb 2004