Pipes Within Pipes

Pipes Within Pipes Within Pipes

This is a pipe game for tinkerers who like fixing and optimizing. And nerds who like recursive structures.

Getting Started

• You must power the Heart tile by connecting it to a circuit (loop).
• Only some pipes actually provide power to the circuit, so make sure you include enough of them to power the Heart.
• Once the Heart is powered, you can zoom out to discover the truth: you were inside a pipe all along, and that pipe is part of another circuit! Now the real fun begins.
• When you are above Layer 1, you can zoom in to go inside pipes to fix or improve them.

Fixing & Improving Pipes

• A broken pipe can be fixed if you go inside it and complete the circuit.
• If you need more power, you can go inside the pipes in your circuit and make them more powerful.

Controls

• Directional keys: Select a tile
• X: Rotate (also works on the Heart)
• Z (when the Heart is selected): Zoom out
• Z (when a pipe is selected): Zoom in
  • Note: this button is called 'O' in PICO-8, it's just mapped to Z if you are playing on a keyboard.

Roadmap

This is a prototype I polished up just enough to release for now. It would be cool to add scoring, a reward for reaching the top layer, and a save system. But it would also be cool to just make more games.