Robot Factory

Robot factory mini-game
In the Robot Factory mini-game the player has to assemble a number of robots by dragging the appropriate robot body parts onto the blueprint. HeShe places the public body parts (head, arms, legs and stomach) onto the blueprint but lets the private parts (mouth, chest and area covered by the underpants) roll off the conveyor belt into the private parts section. Once the public parts of the robot have been assembled, the player places the partially-assembled robot in the assembly queue. The robot goes into the dressing room, where it affixes its own private parts and is painted.

Key concepts in this minigame

Private Body Parts

The core activity in the Robot Factory mini-game requires players to distinguish between the parts of the body that are private and those parts of the body that are not private. More >>

Public and Private Spaces

Each robot places their own private parts on their body in a private room (the dressing room) and also puts their “clothes” (paint) on in this private space. More >>

The Body Rules

The concept of body ownership is reinforced and players are consistently reminded that if someone touches someone else’s private parts, that is breaking the body rules. More >>

Played in these chapters

Chapter 1: Togetherness

This chapter introduces the robot factory. Epsilon suggests forcing Sammy’s door open using a door forcer robot, but when it comes time to use it, the player character and the trusted adult decide to knock instead.

Chapter 2: Listening

In chapter 2, Epsilon asks the player character to build some more robots just at the time when the player is trying to find Sammy. Reluctantly, the player character agrees; although the player’s trusted adult suggests that they should build the robots quickly so that they can get back to looking for Sammy.

Chapter 5: Courage

In this final chapter of the game, Epsilon asks the player character to build robots to fix something bad that is happening on the spaceship. Unfortunately, these robots don’t seem to be doing what they are meant to be doing...