The latest PlotArcadeGame – a Demake of LineJewels a 8Bit-Basic-ResearchGame (more here >). The concept i simple: You get a jewel (on the left side of the line) and you have one possibility to set it in the ongoing cursor. So it is an action game. You have to create 3+ Lines (vertical, horizontal or diagonal). The longer the line is the better.

The question was, will this also run on plotter fast enough to be interesting? The answer – yes it is a game and it is not as fast as the orignal. But it is different: on a computer you dont accept latency – slow things – here you understand it has to be drawn in the analog world and that ist not fast. You understand it as a also painting individuum.

In this version the game shows you the lines you did. The score is only at the end, because Text needs a lot of time.

The original game looks like this. It uses the idea of a teletyper: so no going back just typewriter-printing forward.