UpBot Goes Up. It's more than just the name of a puzzle collaboration between Dom Camus, Luke Davies and Craig Forrester developed at TIGJam UK2. It's an entire philosophy of bot-dom. UpBot is at peace with its purpose in life. It is UpBot. It goes up. It doesn't try to be something it's not. If UpBot needs to go left, then LeftBot is going to have to help it. UpBot is humble. Shouldn't we all be more like UpBot?
In each level, the player is presented with a number of yellow UpBots and its brethren, red RightBots, blue LeftBots, and green DownBots. All bots of the same color move at the same time, so you can control them either by clicking on one bot on the playing field, or by clicking on the color of the bot you want to move at the bottom of the screen. There's also a rewind button (two left facing arrows) to go back a step at a time. Your goal is to usher all the bots to the color-coded targets. Bots can push other bots, and some levels also have special squares such as teleporters to transport bots around. If you get yourself into a hopeless mire, click on the pause button on the left to bring up the menu, where you can control the sound, restart the level, or go back to the main menu.
UpBot Goes Up's level select has a feature that other casual puzzle game makers should take heed of: you can play the levels in any order, without having to unlock higher levels by beating lower ones. Difficulty of puzzles is always going to be subjective. Everyone has probably had the experience while playing a game where you got horribly stuck on a level, to the point where you had to seek out a walkthrough, and then went onto the next level and breezed through it. UpBot is one of those games where playing another level and then coming back to the level that you were stuck on sometimes enables you to see things in a different way, so it's particularly helpful.
The makers describe the game as "elegant," and that really is an apt descriptor for the solutions. When you figure it out, everything works together like clockwork. It's the figuring out that's the challenge, and the fun.
Walkthrough Guide
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Walkthrough (complete)
General Information: To move a bot you can either click on the bot itself or on the button with the bot's color. Every bot must reach the target for its color. If there are several bots of one color you can only move them all together.
To describe what you have to do I will mostly use the bot's color (Y=yellow, R=red, G=green, B=blue) and the number of clicks / panels you must move the bot. When you only have to push the bot to its target I'll use "T" for target, e.g. YT. But don't push it too far!
Thanks to many other users on this forum. Your solutions often helped a lot.
Level 1
I think you can do this one alone.
Are you serious?
Y3 or YT
Level 2
R2, Y3, RT, YT
Level 3
G3, R2, YT, G1,
RT, GT
Level 4
G1, B2, G3, B2,
GT, BT
Level 5
B2, G2, B2, Y2,
R2, GT, YT, RT,
BT
Level 6
Y2, R1, Y3, B2,
YT, RT, BT
Level 7
Y4, R3, YT, RT
Level 8
R2, B4, Y5, RT,
Y1, BT, YT
Level 9
B3, G1, B1, G3,
B4, YT
Level 10
B2, G10, BT, GT
Level 11
R2, Y1, R2, Y1,
R1, Y2, R1, Y2,
RT, YT
Level 12
G3, Y4, B1, G2,
R1, G2, B2, YT,
R3, GT, RT
Level 13
B5, G1, B4, G1,
R4, G1, B4, G1,
B8, G1, B5, GT
Level 14
Y3, R7, YT (the 3 on the left), R9,
now Y until the topmost red bot is on its target next to the teleporter,
R8, Y1, R8, Y1,
R8, Y1, R4, YT,
RT
Level 15
B4, Y1, RT, Y1,
BT, R7 (or RT, B1), YT, RT
Level 16
G4, R3,
do the next three steps 3 times: Y to the top, B1, G5,
BT, Y2, R1, YT,
G3, RT, GT
Level 17
R3, Y2, R2, Y until the 4 red bots are on the yellow targets,
RT, YT
Level 18
B5, Y1, G8, Y1,
B2, YT, BT
Level 19
R3, B3, GT, R2,
BT, Y4, RT, YT
Level 20
R4, Y4, BT, G2,
RT, GT
Level 21
G1, B5, GT
Level 22
Y1, G1, R1, Y4,
R2, G1, R2, GT,
B2, YT, RT
Level 23
R3, Y2, R1, Y1,
G2, R6, G1, R2,
G2, R2, G2, R4,
Y1, R1, G1, R2,
GT, R1, Y1, R8,
Y1, R2, Y2, RT,
YT
Level 24
G3, R2, Y3, R1,
Y1, R2, G2, YT,
RT, GT
Level 25
Y1, R4, G9, B2,
R1, Y3, B5, G2,
BT, YT
Level 26
R14, Y12, R1, Y1,
GT, BT
Level 27
R2, B2, Y2, R4,
Y3, B4, GT, R4,
Y3, B4, Y5, RT,
BT, YT
Level 28
B3, Y1, B1, G1,
Y1, B1, G3, B1,
G5, B1, GT, Y6,
B1, YT, BT
Level 29
B4, R3, Y4, B1,
G6, BT, R1, G3,
R2, GT, Y7, RT,
YT
Level 30
R1, G2, B1, Y2,
R1, B1, R1, B1,
Y2, G2
Level 31
R3, B4, G4, B1,
Y12 (until all yellow bots are at the top), R9,
do the next three steps 3 times: B7, Y1, R7,
Y1, R3, G6, B3,
G11, B11, R11, G1,
R2, Y6, R1, Y1,
B1, GT, R13, BT,
RT
Level 32
Y5, R17, BT, R1,
YT, R18, G1, R18,
G2, RT, GT
Posted by: dee_kay | April 29, 2011 11:36 AM