Comments on: Mother Robot

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By: Andrew Pennebaker

Andrew Pennebaker — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:47:23 +0000

That’s pretty creative. Reminds me of the Krill in Gears of War.

By: stephen lavelle

stephen lavelle — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:23:39 +0000

Ah, if pressing space seemed to get around it it that perhaps narrows down the range of what the problems might be. Thanks for letting me know :)

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:22:52 +0000

I also encountered the “checkpoint not activating” bug.
I did actually get past it though, without refreshing or anything – now I have no idea is this a part of the fix, but I had them grouped on the checkpoint, and then kept hitting space until the block exploded.
Oh, and I’m using Windows 7 32-bit, Firefox 3.6.13, and Flash player version 10.1.102.64.

Nice game regardless.

By: stephen lavelle

stephen lavelle — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:34:40 +0000

I’ve played through the game many tens of times by now, and have never encountered that behaviour. That you say that it was consistently awkward (at the prior checkpoints) strikes me as a bit strange.

What operating system/browser are you using? Do you know what version of the flash player you’re using? (right click on the applet -> go to about).

I appreciate your help with this.

By: adam

adam — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:11:11 +0000

I had four robots, all at the checkpoint, and it wouldn’t activate.

By: stephen lavelle

stephen lavelle — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:26:09 +0000

Moving all the robots all up to it should activate it. By third underground checkpoint you mean third underground checkpoint, or third checkpoint after you fall down the hole? (in which case you’d have more than 2 robots, and you’d have to get the rest to the checkpoint as well).

Very queer. I’ll have a look at the source myself later to see if I can see anything obviously amiss.

By: MeerKat

MeerKat — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:25:29 +0000

I second ADAM’s experience: 2 robots at the um… third underground checkpoint? Right in front of the ice cube. Can’t get the checkpoint to light up — am I missing some technique to this? I’ve tried aiming one/both lasers at it, robots close, robots far away, etc. etc. to no avail.

By: stephen lavelle

stephen lavelle — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:55:38 +0000

That’s pretty weird. How were you trying to set them off? Were you getting everyone right up to the checkpoint, or going to the light radius, or?

By: adam

adam — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:34:13 +0000

don’t know if i’m just some kind of idiot but i had trouble setting off the checkpoints every time. ultimately the fourth one just wouldn’t seem to go and i gave up in frustration after about 10 minutes of aimlessly jumping about trying to make something happen. i enjoyed up to that point though.