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Be sure we'll see plenty more of him in the future! In the far future of Twin Tin Bots, the main hurdle to renewable energy has been solved: It was discovered that crystals can store huge amounts of energy for any length of time, in a very compact volume. In the wake of that major discovery mining corporations endeavoured to mine crystals on other planets, and many small mining operations were set up all over the galaxy. With the advent of cheap energy, advanced technologies such as the ion drive and field robotics thrived, to the point only a few humans were required to run a crystal mine.

Life in a small mining colony can be dull some days, so mining robot programmers have been known to organise friendly competitions, fielding their robots against the other corporations' programmers in a crystal harvesting race.

These rough contests usually mean some of the robots will be damaged or even sent to the scrap heap, much to the dismay of the engineers who maintain them in running order, but the spectacle is usually entertaining and it raises the daily crystal yield so no-one really complains about it. Twin Tin Bots was funded on kickstarter on May 10, The official release date for the game is 'whenever it is ready'. Our current estimate is Q4 We wish to thank all backers who helped make Twin Tin Bots a reality, as well as the following shops who pledged to carry the game on its release:.

In Twin Tin Bots, you program two robots to harvest crystals and bring them into your base. Place a new order tile on a program slot. If the slot was not empty, the previous order tile goes back to your hand. Swap the contents of two slots from the same robot. You can swap a filled and an empty slot. You cannot however swap slots from two different robots. Remove an order tile from a slot.

The order tile goes back to your hand. Remove all order tiles from either robot's slots. The order tiles go back to your hand. This is useful in desperate situations, to just 'shut down' the robot. Make no change to the current programming of either robot Please note that only one of the two robots' programs can be changed each turn. Each player has the same set of order tiles to program his robots: The robot moves in the hex in front of him, possibly pushing a crystal or robot. This is the same as two consecutive move forward orders.

The robot loads a crystal in front of him from the board. The robot unloads a crystal he's transporting in front of him: The robot sends an energy zap in front of him. The spark of energy allows him to hack another robot's program. A well timed zap! And a special order tile that once in the game allows making a change on each robot's programming instead of only one.

Here is a video explanation of the game play: Twin Tin Bots is illustrated by Kwanchai Moriya. Is that a turn of events that really has people excited? It was only a matter of time before he got pissed at his mute sidekick. Especially now that they can no longer bond over mutual Sam Witwicky annoyance. It comes with an open letter from Michael Bay to his fans, announcing his retirement from the Transformer series:. Every movie will interlink. It was a huge task to expand mythology from the beginning of the world throughout history.

We had a great team of writers: They had a life-size Bumblebee, a Megatron head, and many other props staring them down. We pulled from everything. We brought in Transformers historians from Hasbro to educate them on where Transformers has been — so that they could figure out where it can go.