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Build Your Neobot

This game was never completed and/or given a public release.
As a result of this, keep in mind that the developers might have used or deleted some of the content featured here, had the game actually been released.

Build Your Neobot is a rudimentary artillery tactics game. The player builds a Neobot by mixing and matching Body, Legs, and Head parts from a robot Aisha, Eyrie, Grundo, Acara, Jubjub, Scorchio, and Skeith, all while staying within budget constraints. Once the Neobot is built, it's off to battle against other Neobots for a total of five levels.

There is no record of when (or if) this game was added to or removed from Neopets. It simply rests within the Neopets database.

Filenames#

The aiming graphic is internally referred to as wormsArrowLinkage, giving us some insight into which game the developers were inspired by.

Unused Graphics#

Image 77, Image 80, and Image 83 depict the Attack Pea, Kyrii Power Puncher, and Battle Dung weapons respectively found on the Neopets website.

DefineSprite_68_defaultchest, DefineSprite_70_defaultfeet, and DefineSprite_72_defaultdome appear to be placeholders for the Body, Legs, and Head parts respectively.

DefineSprite_87_TeamGreen and DefineSprite_89_TeamRed are a green dot and a red dot, which implies teams might've been considered during development.

DefineSprite_168_arrow and DefineSprite_170_arrowLinkage are unused arrow graphics.

DefineSprite_196_selectionPromptLinkage, DefineSprite_210_ItemTwoLinkage, and DefineSprite_212_ItemThreeLinkage appear to be crude placeholders for the menu UI.

DefineSprite_214_bombLinkage is a copy of the Rocket weapon used in the final game, but squished down.

DefineSprite_221 is a horizontal variant of the health bar. In the final game, all health bars are vertical.