Malbots Begone!

About

MalBots, Begone! is a falling-blocks puzzle game that combines elements from Puyo Puyo and Dr. Mario.

Controls

The confirm and cancel buttons are in Nintendo order (A on the right, B on the bottom) by default. You can swap them as you want in the settings menu or the initial setup process.

Gamepad: D-pad left/right to move pieces, A and B buttons to rotate pieces, D-pad down to soft drop, D-pad up to hard drop.

Keyboard: Arrow left/right to move pieces, Z and X to rotate pieces, Arrow down to soft drop, Space to hard drop.

Touchscreen (Virtual gamepad): Tap the on-screen buttons to control the game like on a gamepad.

Touchscreen (Gesture pad): Swipe left and right to move the piece. Tap the screen to rotate the piece. (The direction depends on which half of the screen you tap.) Swipe down and hold to soft drop. Swipe down fast to hard drop.

Modes

• Arcade: Play freely for endless fun!
• Story (under construction)
• School: Learn the basics of the game!
• Edit: Create your own puzzles!

What are MalBots?

MalBots are a representation of different types of malware. Each type is weak to a block of the same color.

Jellysquid is a general autonomous malicious script that sneaks around, steals data, and messes with settings.

Hibernator is a trojan that naps in your folders to eventually wake up as a scary dark big cat.

Python is, as the name suggests, a malicious Python script.

Blob is a blob of data that absorbs and neutralizes all sorts of data fed to it, especially boot sectors.

Kaybug is a program that flies around to seek bugs to exploit.

Asterisk is a general-purpose virus that infects cross-platform, but is therefore weak to lots of mitigation types.

Warning: Public beta

This game still has unfinished features and parts, and definitely contains bugs. As such, it may be unplayable on certain platforms, after certain updates.

An incomplete list of known issues and missing features:

• Mission Train mode in Arcade
• Story Mode
• Custom level saving and loading (QR code reading and generation didn't pan out well with Godot Engine)
• Only 1 music selection for each mode

Please join the official Discord server for bug reports, feature requests, and discussion!