Video Games

Electris is a puzzle game in the "falling block" genre.
The goal is to align the blocks to create closed circuits. As the circuits are closed, they are removed from the board.
Be careful -- you can place blocks such that you can't close a circuit! Large circuits will give you Eraser blocks so you can clean up mistakes.
Keep an eye on the timer as well; if you take too long to make a circuit, a penalty row will be added to the bottom of the screen.

Scoring

• 1 point for each block dropped
• 10 points per block in a closed circuit
• Chain circuits earn a score multiplier
• 25 point bonus if circuit-breaker erases no blocks
  (double if dropped to floor)

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Installation

Electris is a homebrew game for the PSP (Playstation Portable), written in Lua.

To play it, you'll need a PSP with firmware 1.5; or for firmware 2.0 to 2.6.

• Firmware 1.5 users can use the stand-alone eboot version of the game.
  This version does not require any additional software on your PSP.
  
  To install, download and extract the zip file.
  Copy the Electris/ and Electris%/directories to the PSP/GAME/ directory on your PSP.
  
  
• All supported PSP firmwares can use the LuaPlayer version.
  This version requires the LuaPlayer homebrew application.
  2.0 - 2.6 firmwares will also require Fanjita's eLoader.
  (See the documentation for each package for installation instructions.)
  
  To install, download and extract the zip file.
  Copy the Electris/ directory to the PSP/GAME/luaplayer/Applications/ directory on your PSP.
  
  

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Status

August 30th 2006 - Eboot version now available

May 25th 2006 - Electris wins the DCEmu / Lik-Sang Lua Coding Competition!

This initial release features a single game mode. Future releases will introduce other game modes with different play styles, though all will focus on completing circuits.

I'm interested to hear any feedback. If you've got any comments, suggestions or bug reports, feel free to send me an email at studiokagato@gmail.com.

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Acknowledgements

• Thanks to Zion for his tip on creating stand-alone Lua applications using PSPBrew:
  http://zion.dcemu.co.uk
• Matteo Zatti kindly allowed the use of his music in the game.
  The track is "Something In The Air", available here:
  http://www.modarchive.com/artists/teo/

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Download

	Electris 1.0 eboot - 1.2MB
	Electris 1.0 - 659KB

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Version History

• 1.0
  Initial public release
  
  New features:
  • Menu system
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • Background music
  • New game instructions
  • Pause menu
  • More consistent controls
  • Delay loops replaced with Timer classes
  Bug fixes:
  • Help screens failed to load on firmware 1.5
  
  
• 0.1.1 [BETA]
  Splash screen updated to reflect new project home
  
  
• 0.1 [BETA]
  First beta