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Line Inspector

You’re the quality inspector at the end of a toy factory line. Approve or reject every toy against a rulebook that changes every shift. Three mistakes and you’re off the line.

Open full screenControls: Swipe right, press → or D to approve. Swipe left, press ← or A to reject. Or tap the buttons.

Wind-up robots, bouncy critters and pocket rockets roll down the line one at a time. You make one call on each: approve it or reject it. What counts as faulty is written in the inspection rulebook, and the rulebook changes every shift. A toy that was fine five minutes ago might be a reject now.

Every shift adds or changes a rule and gives you a little less time per toy. A wrong call or a missed toy is a strike, and the rule you missed lights up so you know why. Three strikes end the run, and the game-over card shows the toy and the rule behind each one.

The Line Inspector title screen on a tablet: a yellow LINE sign above an INSPECTOR stamp, a green dotted critter and a red three-eyed robot in caps on the conveyor belt, a best score of 1640 and START SHIFT, HOW TO PLAY and CREDITS buttons

What’s in the box

  • Nine shifts of changing rules, then an endless final shift for as long as you can last
  • Every faulty toy breaks exactly one rule, so every strike tells you what you missed
  • Streaks, saved best scores and a short result line to share with friends
  • Colour-blind friendly paint patterns, plus settings for sound, music, screen shake and vibration
  • Art, music and sound effects all generated in code: the whole game is about 86 KB
  • Works on desktop, phone and tablet browsers, best played upright on a phone

The SHIFT OVER card on a phone: three strikes with drawings of each toy, 47 units inspected, a score of 2000 with a NEW BEST! stamp, a best streak of 36, a share line and a large TRY AGAIN button

Credits

Made by Slop Factory. All visuals, music and sound effects are original and generated at runtime. The display font is Orbitron by Matt McInerney / The League of Moveable Type, used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.