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“Picosolo” is best thought of as a puzzle game with a climbing theme. The objective is to reach the top of a 24 m high rock face.
You do so by moving your hands and feet to find suitable holds. Your limbs are controlled using the arrow keys. You cycle through them by pressing the “Z” key (the selected hand or foot is highlighted by a pulsing icon).
The most important rule to remember is that when you press the “Z” key, you need to have at least two good holds (indicated by a bright green “+” on the corresponding hand or foot). If you have only one, you fall and the game ends.
Other than this, there are some constraints about where your limbs can be positioned (relative to your body). In summary, your left hand must always be above and/or to the left of your centre of gravity (roughly located at the waist of the on-screen character). Your right foot must be below and to the right etc. You also cannot cross arms or legs, so only one hand can be directly above your head and one foot directly underneath you. Obviously, limbs have a limited reach: they can neither extend beyond 4 “cells” of your body, nor be less than two “cells” from your waist. The game will only allow you to move your hands and feet to valid locations, so the best and easiest way to “get a feel” for this is to play it!
As you move your limbs, your body position (centre of gravity) will automatically relocate within allowable limits, which is how you make progress. When this happens, you may find yourself unable to find a new hold (dead end situation). When this happens, press the “X” key to revert to last valid/safe position.
Pressing “X” also saves your game, a feature that was added primarily to allow you to interrupt your climb and resume it at a later time (a full ascent can easily take half an hour). The configuration of the rock face, the position of your arms and feet, and the chronograph value are all saved (but not your trajectory). As far as I know, this function is only available if you download the cartridge (i.e. you cannot save in the HTML version).
At start “Picosolo” asks you to choose between beginning a new climb (randomly generated wall) or resuming a saved one. You cannot save more than one climb (pressing “X” will erase and replace the last save).

P#77135 2020-05-24 14:53 ( Edited 2020-05-27 16:21)


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