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All run like clockwork, till the day the CPU queen is suddenly attacked by a virus,
which prowls in at the time of communication with a data center on Earth. The virus
is rather crazy rather than hard headed; it simply generates some chaos without
any reasonable explanation and objective. By bringing to heel the CPU queen, it
begins to give the robots absurd indications through her interface. Because all ro-
bots demonstrate implicit obedience to the queen's orders, they start to apply them
without a doubt. The following figure is a simple storyboard that displays events that
take place before the game starts:
All except one, the painter robot known as 3PNTR does not obey the orders, be-
cause at night, when other artificial species get software updates infected by the vir-
us code, he accidently removed his USB-cable from the socket. So, in the morning,
he wakes up with the accumulator almost empty, but with sober eyes, free from any
dangerous delusions. He sees the others operating very strangely, creating prepos-
terous and surreal constructions. Moreover, the robots around become very hostile
and even dangerous. 3PNTR immediately understands the situation: the CPU queen
is captured by an evil force, he has to save her! He checks his paint gun, which can
shoot small portions of paint, it works properly. The accumulator is not full, but there
is enough charge for the first level. Everything is ready for an adventure.
Let's give the game a preliminary name 3robopainter , the full name of the protag-
onist which can also be read as Free robopainter .
Game controls
Originally, platformers were invented with buttons in mind, considering arcade ma-
chines and early computers in particular had physical controls (keys or joysticks).
That was simple. The game had to catch a signal from the corresponding controller
and turn it into a virtual representation. It used to work perfectly (until a player broke
several buttons). Touchscreen changed the paradigm, old game principles should be
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