kiki the nano bot

kiki the nano bot is a puzzle game, a mixture of the games Sokoban and Kula World. It is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.

kiki the nano bot
kiki the nano bot
Developer(s)Thorsten Kohnhorst (aka Monsterkodi) and others[1][2]
Stable release
1.0.2 (Windows) 2 December 2005 (2005-12-02)
1.0.3 (Mac OS X) 15 February 2007 (2007-02-15)[3]
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux,[4] FreeBSD
Available inEnglish, Basque, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Dutch
LicenseOpen source / public domain software[5]
Websitekiki.sourceforge.net

Plot

The game's protagonist is a nano bot called Kiki. Kiki is the only bot left sane from a "parasitic capacity" that affected the nano world where he lived, leaving all the nano bots produced in that world "lazy stupid little robots/which shoot each other/and destroy the nano world". Kiki's task is to "repair the maker" of the nano bots.[6]

Gameplay
Screenshot

In each level, certain task must be performed, so the exit gate can be activated, then, if kiki moves through the activated exit gate, it will be 'beamed' to the next level.[7] Gravity works towards the surface you were last touching and kiki can walk around the walls and on all sides of any block.[8] The game has 50 levels, which can be viewed by selecting "Statistics", in the main menu, in which the progress of the user appears.

Levels

Number of levels : 50

  1. START
  2. STEPS
  3. MOVE
  4. ELECTRO
  5. ELEVATE
  6. THROW
  7. GOLD
  8. JUMP
  9. ESCAPE
  10. GEARS
  11. GAMMA
  12. CUBE
  13. SWITCH
  14. BORG
  15. MINI
  16. BLOCKS
  17. BOMBS
  18. SANDBOX
  19. ENERGY
  20. MAZE
  21. LOVE
  22. TOWERS
  23. EDGE
  24. RANDOM
  25. PLATE
  26. NICE
  27. ENTROPY
  28. SLICK
  29. BRIDGE
  30. FLOWER
  31. STONES
  32. WALLS
  33. GRID
  34. RINGS
  35. CORE
  36. BRONZE
  37. POOL
  38. HIDDEN
  39. CHURCH
  40. STRANGE
  41. MESH
  42. COLUMNS
  43. MACHINE
  44. NEUTRON
  45. CAPTURED
  46. CIRCUIT
  47. REGAL
  48. CONDUCTOR
  49. EVIL
  50. MUTANTS

Reception

It won the Categories 'Best Graphics', 'Best Originality' and 'Best Overall Game' in the uDevGame Game Programming Contest 2002.[9][10]

The game was downloaded between 2003 and May 2017 alone from Sourceforge.net over 170,000 times.[11] A review at acid-play.com was favourably with 4.9 of 5 points.[12] Freeware game website Planet Free Play called in 2005 kiki the nanobot "one of the best freeware games ever.".[1] Inside Mac Games reviewed the game favourably, recommending to give it a try "If you're in the mood for a good, challenging, puzzle game.".[13]

References
  1. Interview with the creator of kiki the nano bot on planetfreeplay.com (2005-10-19, archived)
  2. thanks on sourceforge
  3. http://kiki.sourceforge.net/misc/news.html
  4. kiki-the-nano-bot on packages.ubuntu.com
  5. http://sourceforge.net/projects/kiki
  6. story on sourceforge.net
  7. manual on sourceforge.net
  8. kiki the nanonot by Sean Butler (25 September 2005)
  9. kiki the nano bot on happypenguin.org (archived)
  10. kiki Archived 7 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine on playubuntu.com
  11. stats 2000-05-14+to+2017-05-20 on sourceforge.net (May 2017)
  12. Review at acid-play.com
  13. IMG's uDevGame Picks of the Litter on Inside Mac Games by Galen Wiley (December 3, 2002)
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