About the game
Defend the City! Lensbot vs. Redface is an original robot story built on a hand-drawn comic. It is not a game you control: you read a comic made of 17 panels, and the tabs at the top let you switch between the Comic view and the Script view.
The story begins on a quiet night, with Lensbot, a robot standing alone between tall buildings and watching over the city. When green light flashes in the western sky, Captain Visor rolls in on his wheels, and out of that light steps the red-eyed villain Redface, who announces that the city now belongs to him.
Lensbot fires a blue beam from his two lenses, and Captain Visor answers with a yellow visor beam. Redface hits back with green energy orbs, then spreads pink wings and fires a huge orange beam. Later in the story the Speaker King also appears and shouts Sound burst!
At the very bottom of the screen the text To be continued... appears, so the story ends as if more is on the way.
Game info
- Type
- Comic story (17 panels)
- Devices
- Computer and smartphone
- Saving
- Nothing to save
- Internet
- Fonts are loaded from the internet
How to read it
- Comic view: each panel shows its number, a caption and the speech bubbles.
- Script view: the same 17 panels are read as text, with the scene, a narration line, the dialogue and the sound effects for each panel.
- Click or tap the tabs to switch between the two views. There is nothing else to operate.
- If your device is set to a dark screen, the story screen switches to dark colors too.
Good to know
- Four characters appear: Lensbot, Captain Visor, Redface and the Speaker King.
- Panels carry sound-effect lettering such as Pew!, Boom!, Flash! and Pop!, written in Korean.
- All the art is line drawing made with code (SVG), so it stays sharp at any screen size.
- The hand-lettered fonts (Gaegu and Jua) are loaded from Google Fonts. The story text is in Korean.
- The panels sit two across and each is tilted very slightly, which gives the page a cut-and-pasted, hand-made look.
- Each panel's description sits in a yellow caption box and each line of dialogue in a speech bubble that starts with the speaker's name, so you can tell who is talking right away.
- The speaker's name is colored differently for each character, for example blue for Lensbot and a reddish pink for Redface, which makes the dialogue easy to follow.