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Build & Bolt
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About the game
Build & Bolt is a workshop game seen from above. Each level shows a recipe, such as a car body plus a wheel for a car, and tells you how many toys to build: cars, robots, rockets or teddy bears. Parts are piled up in bins around the factory floor and you have to carry them around and put the toy together, within a time limit of one to one and a half minutes.
The floor is not simple. There are slippery patches of ice where the elf slides and is hard to stop, pits to avoid, fences and walls to go around, and penguins that waddle around the floor and get in the way. Ten levels add more of each. You can play alone or with a second player on the same keyboard, in which case the elves share the work.
At the start you choose one or two players and see the controls of each; then the first level begins with a "Go!".
Playing it here
Click Play and the game starts in the page, with a small bar above it for the score, pause, restart and sound. It was made with a keyboard in mind; the original has some touch support on phones, but a keyboard is the way to play it. Nothing is installed and nothing is sent to other sites; the best score is not saved.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Arrow keys / WASD (one player) | Move |
| Shift | Pick up or drop a part |
| Two players: arrows + Right Shift, and W A S D + Left Shift | One set of keys for each elf |
A few things worth knowing
Read the recipe first. The panel at the start of the level shows what goes with what; fetch the parts in that order.
Brake before the ice. On ice the elf keeps sliding; let go of the keys early so it stops where you want.
Credits and licence
Build & Bolt is one of the mini-games of a holiday web app that Google published as open source (the santa-tracker-web repository). The code is under the Apache License 2.0 and the images and sounds are under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, credited to Google LLC and the contributors of the project. The game is the same as the one Google published: for this site only the page around it was replaced (score bar, pause, sound), fonts and libraries are served from this site, and links back to the original app were removed, so the page never contacts other sites. The licence texts and the list of changes are in the licence file of the game. This is an unofficial copy and is not made, endorsed or sponsored by Google.
FAQ
Can two people play? Yes, on the same keyboard: choose 2 Players at the start.
How many levels? Ten.
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