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File Fixers
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About the game
File Fixers turns a computer into a fantasy kingdom. Two queens rule an operating system that depends on four drivers (GPU.DLL, Disk.DLL, IO.DLL and RAM.DLL), and all four are crawling with bugs. Your party of four heroes has to go into each driver, clean it out, and bring back the key that keeps it safe.
The game is played from a desktop: you point and click on windows to choose a driver, rename your heroes, pick their classes and read about the game. Inside a driver the game becomes a turn-based tactics RPG. Each driver is a stack of sectors laid out at random; clear a sector of enemies to unlock the way down, and clean the last sector to recover the driver's key. Heroes are Fighters, Mages or Supports, each with their own skills, from attacks and spells to healing and shields.
Playing it here
This is a homebrew game made for the NES: a new game by an independent developer, not a commercial release. It was made in a month for the GitHub Game Off 2021 game jam. It runs here in jsnes, an NES emulator written in JavaScript. Click Play now and press Enter on the title screen.
The cartridge keeps your progress in battery-backed memory, but this player does not store that memory between visits. Use F2 to save the current state of the game in this browser and F4 to bring it back. A gamepad also works.
Controls
| Key | NES button | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Arrow keys | Control Pad | move the pointer (desktop), walk the active hero (dungeon), move through menus |
| X | A | click, advance dialogue, open the skills and items menu, confirm |
| Z | B | end the active hero's turn (dungeon) |
| Enter | Start | start the game, return to the title after a game over |
| F2 / F4 | — | save / load the state |
A few things worth knowing
Set up the party first. The settings window lets you name the four heroes and choose their classes. A mix of Fighters for the front line, Mages for damage and Supports for healing works better than four of the same.
Steps are limited. Each hero has a number of moves per turn, shown on the screen. Walking into an item picks it up; potions go into the shared inventory.
Passing is a move too. Ending a hero's turn with B is often the safest choice, letting the enemies come to you.
Credits and licence
File Fixers is by Wendel Scardua and is released under the MIT licence. The music uses "Inevitable Doom" by celestialghost8 and "cheery" and "upbeat" by Phillip Miller, all in the public domain (CC0) on OpenGameArt. The game also includes the neslib library by Shiru, the nesdoug library and FamiTone5 sound driver by Doug Fraker, and mapper code by Christopher Parker; their licence notices are in the licence file linked from this page.