TILT-A-TRON

HOW TO INSTALL

1. 1
   Use Chrome or Edge on a desktop computer.
   Flashing uses Web Serial, which phones, Safari and older Firefox don't have.
2. 2
   Plug the watch in with a USB-C cable that carries data.
   Many charging cables are power-only. If no device shows up in the list, try another cable.
3. 3
   Press FLASH TILT-A-TRON and pick the port (it shows as "USB JTAG/serial debug unit" or a COM port).
   It writes the bootloader, partition table and firmware. About a minute.
4. 4
   If it can't connect: unplug, hold the small BOOT button by the USB port, plug back in, let go after 2 seconds, and try again.
   That forces install mode and always works, whatever is on the board.
5. 5
   Done. The first start shows SETTING UP for about half a minute while the watch installs its games, then the home carousel.
   Swipe to pick a game, tap to play, BOOT goes home, double-click PWR to sleep. Turn Wi-Fi on in Settings for clock sync and over-the-air updates.

WHAT'S ON IT

BREAKOUT

Rings of bricks. Turn the watch like a wheel; the paddle stays at the bottom.

MARBLE MAZE

Tilt a steel ball through generated mazes. Mind the holes.

GRAND PRIX

The whole watch is the steering wheel. Tip forward for throttle.

SKY JUMP

Tilt Hopper up an endless tower, from morning sky to the stars.

TILT-A-TRIS

Radial block-stacking. The piece hangs from "up"; you turn the pile under it.

SLEEPY STAR

Drag the rings round like the dials of a lock until the laser reaches the red box, and the star wakes up.

PIN DROP

Steer a falling ball through the pins into the hole. The rim is live.

STARFALL

Chase a raider down a trench. Hold it in your sights and tap - and fly through the blast gates. In levels.

SKATER GIRLZ

A rooftop skate run with one life. Turn the watch to push, tap to ollie, tap again to kickflip for Aura.

ECHO

Watch the pads light up, then touch them in the same order. One more each round, for as long as you can remember.

RADAR

Sea battle on a radar scope. Drop a pin anywhere, and the sweep comes round to tell you what was there. Then their radar comes looking for you.

POCKET WATCH

Five faces, network time, automatic time zone. The one app built into the firmware.

THE MANAGER APP

A desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux. The watch is on the left and your library - a plain folder of game files - is on the right. Drag a game from one to the other. Taking a game off the watch moves it to the library instead of deleting it, installs show up on the watch without a restart, and your scores are still there when a game comes back.

WRITE YOUR OWN

No game is compiled into the firmware - not even ours. A game is a folder of plain C written against one header, an icon, and a few PNGs. One script packs it into a single .tat file, and the manager drops it onto a running watch.

games/mygame/
  game.json      id, name, author, version, accent colour
  mygame.c       includes "tat/tat_api.h" and nothing else
  icon.png       210 x 210
  assets/*.png   sprite sheets

python tools/mktat.py games/mygame
tiltatron-manager install build/mygame.tat

GOOD TO KNOW