Floyd the Droid

## Description

The sewers in the major cities of the world are in crisis and need a good
cleaning and removing creatures that roam through them. It is now considered
too much for any humans to do so a droid was developed to roam these sewers
and make them clean again. You play one droid called Floyd and you have been
assigned to sort out the mess in the sewers under London before moving on to
other cities. Before you start your job you have a choice of how Floyd moves
and reacts to situations where you can program him a set of procedures for
these. You can also set him to automatic and watch him attempt to deal with
them himself or allow you to control him in manual mode.

The sewers have an isometric view with a small part of the sewers shown and
the screen scrolls when you move Floyd. The sewers are a maze of tunnels and
you move Floyd around them looking for items to remove. As well as dirt and
blockages there are also bats, rats and crocodiles as well as an escaped
prisoner who is armed. A small radar icon changes colour when you are
approaching something to remove and when they are found the game changes to a
side view. Bats, blockages and the prisoner can be dealt with your laser,
while the rats and crocodiles need to be jumped on. If you have manual control
then you attempt to deal with these yourself while in automatic mode this
allows Floyd to do the work.

Floyd has an energy bar and when he touches items then this drains and when it
is empty then it is game over. The main menu can be brought up at any time to
change Floyd’s reaction to situations and reprogram him. Also on the menu is a
score and the target score to move to the next sewer as well as a percentage
of the dirt of the sewer. A joystick is used to control Floyd.

Floyd the Droid