G-CODE OLYMPICS

HOW TO PLAY

• Get the tool from START to the PODIUM, and finish the program with Z back down at Z0.
• The program runs in absolute mode (G90): every number is a position on the board. Read it off the X and Y rulers.
• Click X, Y or both (an angled move), set the position with the slider or the ◀ ▶ buttons, then ADD LINE. Keep going line by line.
• You write the code blind: nothing on the board or the rulers shows where your numbers will put the tool. Read the rulers, make your best guess, then press CYCLE START.
• Z moves on its own line. Purple walls are tall: nothing goes over them. Yellow hurdles show their height, e.g. Z8: lift the tool above it (Z9 or more), move across, then come back down (Z0).
• The podium is always guarded: every way in is a hurdle or a ring gate.
• Every ring shows a feed rate. Go through a ring only at exactly that feed, or you crash into it. Click F (FEED) to set the feed, on its own line (F800) or with an X/Y move (G1 X90 F800). The feed stays until you change it; the program starts at F1500.
• Boulders stop you cutting corners. Touching a wall, a boulder or the board edge is a crash. Z travel is 0 to 25 mm.
• Click a line in the program to change or delete it. CYCLE START runs the whole program; SKIP jumps to the end of the run.
• Medals: gold at or under par (the fewest lines), silver within 25 % of par, bronze for any finish.
• The levels never end. They alternate between easier and harder boards, and both get tougher as you climb: the maze closes up and gains hurdles, boulders and taller hurdles and more feed rings.
• You have 3 lives. A crash, or a program that ends off the podium, costs a life. Every 5th level cleared gives one back (up to 5).
• Score: each level cleared scores 100 + 10 × the level, plus 50 for gold or 25 for silver, plus 20 a ring, all multiplied by the board size (×1, ×1.5, ×2) and difficulty (×1, ×1.5, ×2, ×3). IMPROVE IT replays a level for a better score; only your best run on each level counts.
• REGISTER TO SAVE PROGRESS uses your techni-cope.app account: the run is saved after every level and CONTINUE RUN picks it up on any device.
• When the run ends, a score in the top 10 goes on the leaderboard with your name. Every program is replayed on the server before it counts.
• Difficulty: Amateur moves in 10 mm steps through an open maze, Club in 5 mm with boulders, National in 1 mm through a tighter maze, Olympic in 1 mm through the tightest maze with the most hurdles and boulders.
• Keys: X Y Z F pick axes and feed, Enter adds the line, Esc cancels an edit.

GAME OVER

REGISTER TO SAVE PROGRESS

One Techni-Cope account for the game and all of techni-cope.app. Your run is saved after every level, and you can carry on from any device.

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