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Route Protocol

Route Protocol is a traversal-based racing and puzzle course builder. Control a robotic unit through modular obstacle courses filled with ramps, boosters, and hazards. Race in real-time heats, solve solo challenges, or build your own traversal gauntlets.

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Danny Ziemer
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Danny Ziemer
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About the Game

Route Protocol is a traversal-based racing and puzzle game where you control a robotic unit through modular obstacle courses designed to test your speed, creativity, and problem-solving. Each course is a kinetic puzzle — a shifting landscape of ramps, jumps, boosters, and hazards that challenge you to find the smartest, fastest route.

Whether you're racing against others in structured heats or designing your own traversal gauntlets, Route Protocol is about mastering movement and building better paths.

Game Modes

  • T.R.I.A.L.
    Terrain Routing for Iterative Autonomous Learning
    A solo mode focused on route optimization and terrain mastery. Analyze the course, adapt your strategy, and refine your traversal through increasingly complex layouts.

  • R.U.S.H.
    Rival Units in Speed Heats
    A competitive multiplayer mode where players race in real-time through dynamic terrain. Every match is a test of reflexes, routing, and adaptation.

  • P.A.T.H.
    Programmable Architecture for Terrain Handling
    A creative sandbox where you build and test your own traversal challenges. Snap together terrain modules, place hazards and boosters, and share your creations with others.

Features

  • Hybrid traversal bots that roll, stand, and interact with the environment

  • Modular terrain system with ramps, collapsible tiles, boosters, and logic-based triggers

  • Competitive heat-based multiplayer

  • A focused gameplay loop built around movement, iteration, and creative problem-solving

Route Protocol is about more than reaching the finish line — it’s about how you get there, and how cleverly you can build the way forward.

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