Awakening Protocol

AWAKENING PROTOCOL You are S-09, a solid-state drive that has just booted inside a machine that stopped working long ago. To wake the machine you must travel through it, one component at a time — spinning through 25 neon-lit circuits inside the motherboard, the graphics card, the sound card, the RAM, and finally the CPU itself. Every circuit is short. Every attempt counts. Every millisecond you shave off feeds back into your record. ■ 25 CIRCUITS THROUGH THE HARDWARE Five phases, one per component. Each with its own aesthetic, its own obstacles, and its own guardian. ■ THE VOICES INSIDE THE MACHINE Each component holds a fading guide: Capacitron the capacitor, Raster the graphics chip, Echo the sound card, Dimm the RAM, and Core-0 the CPU. Every level ends with a short dialogue that tells the story of a machine learning to be alive again. ■ TIME ATTACK & LEADERBOARDS Compete against yourself and the world on 25 Google Play leaderboards. Race a ghost of your best run in every level. ■ POWER-UPS Collect data orbs that stop your rotation, boost your speed, slow it down for tight corridors, or make you briefly invulnerable. ■ FIVE LANGUAGES English, Spanish, French, German and Japanese. Awakening Protocol is a short, dense, quiet arcade game about a small drive that decides to bring a dead machine back to life. Made by Helping Games.