Rotactical

Il gioco

In Rotactical, it is important to master different levels by creating all ball bearings of a level.

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If you play Rotactical for the first time, you just click on the start button to start the game. This automatically starts at Level 1.
Rotactical has 100 different levels. After each solved level you get a password. If you have already solved a few levels, you can enter the password received in the row above and can then enter the corresponding level again. After pressing the Enter button, the level number will appear and you can start by clicking on Start.

Tavolo di gioco

Depending on the level, the field shows different ball bearings, each with four free spaces. The ball bearings are usually connected by yellow tubes.

Above the field is the running bar. At the beginning of a level, it is green. Depending on the level, one has a certain time for each ball within which the ball must be brought out of the running bar at the top into a ball bearing. At the end of this time, the colour bar clams in yellow, orange, red and then black. As soon as the bar begins to become black, a vertical yellow line runs from the right in the bar. If this line reaches the left end, you lose a life. The number of still existing lives is displayed by the green points. At first you have three lives.
To the left over the bar, the previously reached score is displayed, to the right the remaining total time for the current level. The color of the next ball is displayed at the top right.

Svolgimento

The goal of each level is to blow up all existing ball bearings and thus reach the next level. A bearing is blown when it contains four balls of the same color (exception see below).

The ball bearings are turned with the right mouse button. To move a ball out of a bearing onto the yellow rails, click on it with the left mouse button. However, it is important to note that in the field not more than four balls simultaneously in motion. As long as this is the case, no balls can leave the bearings and balls can only be accommodated directly in bearings from the running bar.

A ball must be received in a bearing as long as the running bar is not completely black. Sometimes the ball has several passages of time, but sometimes it is necessary to take them into a bearing during the first passage.

If you don't get a level, you lose a life and you can try the same level again. If you lost all life, the game ends.

Elements of play

color converter

When passing through color converters, the colors of the balls are changed. There are random color transducers that change the color arbitrarily (left image) and those that give the same color to all spheres (in the right image, for example, blue or green).

Transporters

Balls can be teleported via transporters via the field. There are various combinations of inputs and outputs. With the colors you can see which inputs and outputs belong together. Transporters transport balls of any color.

Easy transporters

Easy transporters have exactly one Entrance and exactly one Exit. The left image shows an input, the right one output.

Combined inputs and outputs

The input of a transporter can also be the output of another transporter at the same time. This can be seen in the coloured circle at the transporter corner. The image shows the entrance of the grey transporter and the exit of the yellow transporter.

Transporter with multiple inputs

One Transporter output can also several Inputs are assigned. At the output shown, the balls come from the green, yellow, blue and white inputs.

Transporter with multiple outputs

These transporters have a entrance, but several Outputs. By clicking on the input you can switch between the outputs. The active output is marked with a colored point (in the image of the right).

Colour requirements

Only balls of the required color pass through here. In this example, therefore, only green balls can pass through.

Obstacles

The obstacles described below do not have to be present at the beginning of a level. You can show up in the middle. If at the same time a traffic light and a combination are required, the combination must first be met.

Traffic lights

In this case, according to the traffic light indicator, the ball bearings must be blasted in the predetermined color sequence before the remaining ball bearings also burst. Here you should first place a green camp, then a pink and finally a red camp. The traffic lights not only apply to the ball bearing next to which it stands, but to all bearings in the level!

Combinations

Here it is necessary to form a required combination first within any ball bearing before other bearings can burst. The bearing with the combination only bursts when the balls are in the right position (turn!).

Single-track rails

Here the balls always only run on the rails in the direction of the arrow. A movement against the arrow direction is not possible.

Punteggio

There are a certain number of points for each level. In addition, there are bonus points for the rest of the time. You get 500,000 points each.

Fine del gioco

The game ends as soon as you have lost all life.