Fickle (2014)
Fickle is a one-button real-time puzzle game for the Commodore 64 by Malcolm Tyrrell, expanded from his 2011 VIC-20 original. Fickle travels through a maze of rotors, teleports and switches — clockwise rotors twist it right, anticlockwise ones twist it left — and you have a single button and a ticking timer to steer it to the heart. Plan your route before you start: one wrong twist and you're going the long way round. Free software under the AGPL-3.0 license; source code: github.com/Malcohol/Fickle-C64.
Objective Get Fickle to the heart before the timer runs out. Controls • One button: the joystick fire button (port 2) • Fickle moves on its own — rotors, teleports and switches change its path • Restore key — skip a level (but the game will withhold its love) Tips • The timer gives you plenty of time — study the level and plan a route before you start • Clockwise rotors twist Fickle right; anticlockwise rotors twist it left Modes • 1 Player