Find the Nerd: Prototype 2
Prototype 2
Scanner sweep mode
Sweep the sector. Read the signal. Confirm the signature.
Signal Sweep
Twenty sectors, each more packed than the last, from a couple of dozen travellers up to two hundred. Every sector scans a new Nerd: Always the same six traits, always a different kit. His scan sits at the top of the screen while you play, and exactly one figure on the deck matches it.
Look alikes are everywhere. Some wear his exact colors but miss a trait, others carry all six traits with one color swapped. Nobody else is both.
You get one sonar burst per sector, and it runs for five seconds only. Fire it from the button under the sector, or with the spacebar or the S key, then sweep hard while the signal is live. When the burst dies it leaves a peak marker behind, and the rest of the hunt is done with the scanner lens and your eyes.
One sonar burst per sector, five seconds each. Wrong calls cost time and score.
How to Play
- Your target is scanned into the top left of the play screen. Each sector scans a new Nerd, and the crowd hides that exact figure once. Tap the scan to reopen the trait checklist.
- Traits alone are not enough and color alone is not enough. Plenty of travellers wear his exact kit with a trait missing, and later decks add figures with all six traits and one color swapped. Only the target is both.
- Each sector grants one sonar burst of five seconds. Fire it with the button under the sector, or with the spacebar or the S key.
- While the burst is live the signal meter climbs as the scanner nears the true Nerd. It never points at him, it only measures distance.
- When the burst dies it leaves a peak marker at your strongest reading. That circle is the last help you get.
- The scanner ring is always a lens. Drag it over the crowd and anything inside is magnified, sonar or no sonar.
- Tap or click a character to call it in. Tapping empty space just moves the scanner, it costs nothing.
- A wrong call costs 3 seconds and 25 points.
- Keyboard: Arrow keys sweep the scanner, Enter calls in whoever is under it.
- Later sectors go dark and the crowd grows past a hundred, so the lens becomes your only clear view.
The Nerd's full signature, all six traits together, in one of many kits:
This is a sample kit. The Nerd is rescanned every sector in different colors, and the scan at the top of the play screen is always the figure you are hunting. Match the traits and the kit together: The deck holds one exact match and no more.
Sector Clear
Sweep Complete
Coming next:
Illustrated sector art · Moving crowds · Scanner upgrades · Handheld builds for Android and iPhone