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, Ledrix

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.