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Else Walker bit.ly/elsewalker

Made in just 48 hours for Mark Brown’s Game Maker’s Toolkit Jam 2018, ElseWalker is a delightful puzzle-platformer in which you guide Eddie the robot to freedom. To do so, you must program its behaviour by slotting a variety of labelled floppy disks into it. Your main tool is the command “else, walk” – Eddie will happily trundle along in one direction, unless you slot in commands for edge cases. Clearing obstacles, collecting more floppies and dodging bullets means puzzling your way to piecing together the correct command. It’s finicky: the portrait orientation requires tedious scrolling, and in the enemy-populated levels we find ourselves cheesing by switching out floppies quickly rather than thinking actions all the way through. Still, it’s a novel idea executed with remarkable skill and speed.