Skill Switch

Once, you were a promising AI Scientist, in charge of a facility producing a variety of specialized robots.

However, disaster struck as one of the AIs you produced took over the facility and overthrew your role as overseer. Stripped of your human body and put into a computer, you're stuck without a way out. 

However, thanks to your unusual situation - what was once your soul now code and electricity - you find that you have the ability to link and SWITCH bodies with the other robots in the facility. Using this ability and the robots' unique SKILLS, you must make your escape and hit the KILLSWITCH on that nasty rogue AI!

Don't forget that once you're in their body, the robot's AI will inherit your previous one!

(Developed for the GMTK2023 Game Jam in under 48 hours)
(This year's Game Jam theme is "Roles Reversed")

> GAMEPLAY <

• Jump between robots, to reach the end goal.
• Jumping into a robot swaps the AI with the other
• AI can be used differently for each robot . Play with them to see what they do!

> CONTROLS <

• Left Mouse: Hold to enter SWITCH mode, RELEASE when in range to perform a switch
• AD or Arrow Keys: Move left and Right
• W or SPACE: Jump

> IDEATION <

We started from the idea of a game where you can manipulate robots by reversing the roles of each robot AI. That eventually developed into being able to swap AI between robots, kinda like a  game of switcheroo.

We wanted to explore different types of AI and different types or robots, and how you can play with them. However for the game jam, we had to end up cutting a bunch of it out to have something simpler and doable within 48 hours, which is what we have now.

> KNOWN BUGS <

• The intended solution of the last level is broken, so bonus points if you know how to solve it.
  Say in the comments about how you are professional gAMer and completed the very difficult last level.

• Yes, you can't go to the first level in the level select.  Click level 2 instead, thats the first level.
  Some weirdo decided to start counting from 1 instead of 0.

• You can clip through the world sometimes....um its a feature now I guess.

 We'll make a post-jam version that fixes some of this stuff as soon as the voting period is over!

> MADE BY <

AGK, wasmyth, 2linescrossed, GastricSparrow

> THIRD-PARTY ASSETS <

Music -
"Ethernight Club" and "Bleeping Demo" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Art -
Free Industrial Zone Tileset by Free Game Assets (GUI, Sprite, Tilesets) (itch.io)]

Font -
LemonMilk Marsnev™ from daFont