GNOME Robots Objective

The objective of GNOME Robots is quite simple. You are surrounded by a number of robots or other hostile adversaries. As you move about they will move directly towards you for every move that you make. Their goal is to kill you. Your goal is to kill all the robots on the board by taking advantage of their vulnerabilities.

Robots are destroyed when they collide with each other, or when they collide with the debris of some previous collision. You die if a robot ends up right next to you.

In some of the game configurations (you can choose from five different sets of rules), you can push the junkheaps around to form barricades to protect you. Also, if you are daring enough, you can Splat! the robots by pushing junkheaps on top of them for an additional bonus.

You can also save yourself by teleporting yourself to a random location. Unfortunately, randomly teleporting means that you might end up being right next to a robot, so they can kill you when they make their move. Luckily, there are also safe teleports which will place you out of immediate danger, but there are only a limited supply of them. You can earn more free teleports as you go along (how you gain them depends on the chosen game), but typically you get one for each robot that is destroyed while you are 'waiting', up to a maximum of 10. If you don't want to waste your saved-up safe teleports, you can choose to teleport randomly if you think it's safe enough.

If you press the Wait button (see below) you will no longer be able to move until either all of the robots (which still move towards you) are gone, or you are killed. Doing this is risky, but may earn you extra safe teleports.

If you manage to reach the point where more than half of the screen is occupied by robots, the number of robots will be reset to the starting amount, allowing you to continue.