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retrograde

Manor Secret

Our duo, after fleeing from the terrors of the Witch's Cave with a pile of loot and odd trinkets, has wandered the countryside for 3 days looking for a place to hole up. Eventually they spot an old manor house and decide to investigate. R-Bot goes in, but doesn't come out... and all goes quiet.

Manor Secret
retrograde, Aug 26, 2016
    • GtB
      It jumps on the right but not on the left...what is this magic? And where the f**k did you hide all the reds???
    • retrograde
      @GtB
      Yeah the manor is kind of like a clown car. It uses the jump mechanism from my Tiny Jump Demo level. Since the jumper looks and moves just like a normal slider block this is a new kind of hidden mechanism.
    • retrograde
      For the jump, the easiest method is to make sure that B-Bot is facing where he needs to go and wait for his arms to stop swinging. Then click on the furthest spot you can and jump!
    • vince
      Sometimes there is a ball which is falling into the Manor but I don't know why.
    • retrograde
      @vince
      There is a hole in manor that the ball falls into... it should generally just fall into the hole. The ball makes a bridge.
      1. Get B-Bot up to the window.
      2. Move B-Bot into the manor (slider needs to be slide to the left)
      3. Move the slider the right and B-Bot should fall.
      4. Move the slider to the left and the ball should drop.
      5. Move B-Bot out...
    • Rating:
      5/5,
      richardfu_
      I had to make a level myself to test one of the mechanisms here:D
      The beginning part is a bit hard to figure out, because I can't see what caused the ball to roll down. Also, when B is on the ride, sometimes it get zapped by a nearby zapper and somtimes it doesn't, so I'm not sure what your intentions are for the zappers. In fact, I didn't make a route for the duo to avoid zappers completely.
    • TR O
      5. moved B out made zap bot out of the map
      6. ?
    • retrograde
      @richardfu_
      The intended solution is to put B-Bot in a safe place, either in the first floor of the manor (best) or at the center of the board, and to use the jumper block to eject all zappers off the main platform. This part is very satisfying. I was once able to launch a zapper bot onto the roof of the manor!

      What I didn't realize is that if the slider is moved to the right (from the back of the house), that B-Bot can tumble strait through to the first floor without triggering the ball to fall. This can be a bit confusing too.

      Hopefully the ball isn't falling for people on it's own (i.e. without B-Bot's intervention). It sounds like that in some circumstances the ball is missing the hole and landing B-Bot's fall area instead?
    • Rohan Kumar
      After all the jumping is done for how to end the level ?
    • retrograde
      @Rohan Kumar
      So you have to get B-Bot up to the left window. The trick here is to get B-Bot on top of R-Bot's head. :)
    • nGord
      Yeah, that's as far as I managed to get last night. Can't get one on top of the other (not easily anyway). :(
    • richardfu_
      @nGord That ride on the other bot is what I had to test by making a level myself.
      Let B stand on the jumping block. When R is walking toward B and is about two blocks away, bounce B up with a moderate force. B should land on R's head.
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    • retrograde
      @richardfu_
      To get B-Bot on R-Bot's head a quick flip (rise & fall) of the bouncing block is necessary, else R-Bot will turn around when it hits the elevated bounce block. You can generally bounce B-Bot up to the manor roof height to pull this off. Even higher bounces may work too.
    • nGord
      Thank you @richardfu_ ! That is exactly what I hadn't yet thought of trying. It was late at night and as you can imagine, extra tired from getting to that point in the level already. Pretty neat!
    • Rating:
      5/5,
      nGord
      Excellent level! If I could have one criticism, it would be that there was too much to experience. Just so much to discovery and enjoy. On first impression the the art is great as are the features of the jumping mechanic. Getting B in through the doorway was frustrating, but the reward immense. This is a level that I will replay again and again in the future for sure. Thank you!
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