A couple of very quick and dirty photomashes to visualize some possible screens of the game.

As school was suddenly back in session, a couple of us got the idea to try and develop a delightfully indie sidescroller set in the early computer age of an alternative victorian London - a variant of steampunk labelled playfully by us as sparkpunk. 

At the centre of this would be the Grand Computer, beset by everything from skittering analog computer viruses to frayed copper wiring snagged in whirring cogs. It is up to you, playing the role of the Assistant, to enter this the technological wonder of our time and Debug it. Quite literally.

That's the main idea, and here's the first character sheet for said Assistant.

After deciding upon a gentleman/mechanic sort of character (merging the 3,10,11,12 initial explorations), these next twelve iterations followed. All sporting some variant of the wearable Faraday cage protecting its wearer from the ravages of the high-voltage inner workings of the Grand Computer.