798 HANDSFor pipeliners and field hands on the road
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Line up the pipe

Slide the joint along until it drops into the gap, then let go. On a keyboard, use the arrow keys.

A pipe in the ditch with one joint missingThe missing joint
Boombox

Arcade

Built here, for us — play alone, or team up with members and guests.

Click the screen to play. Z or J runs your tool (B), X, K or Space jumps (A), C or L puts your hood or face shield up or down, Enter is Start, P pauses. Up climbs trees, ladders and fences; down + jump slides (or drops through a plank). Choose your own keys in Options on the title screen or the pause menu. Gamepads work too. The speaker in the screen's bottom-left corner sets the sound; the high scores show on the title screen.

How to play
  • Pick one of four hands. Brian and Tracy are welders: they strike an arc with the stinger, which reaches a little way and hits hard. Woody and Mike are helpers: they run a grinder, which throws a fan of sparks that falls as it flies. Woody runs fastest, Brian hits hardest, Mike takes the most punishment and Tracy jumps highest. Every secret can be reached by all four.
  • Hood down (C): a welder's pancake hood turns away 15% of hits and a helper's face shield 5%, but a welder sees the world through the lens. Strike an arc with your hood up and you'll know about it.
  • Nobody gets killed out here. Rattlesnakes rattle and coil before they strike: stay low or stay back. Fire ant mounds send ants after you until you grind the mound flat. Armadillos curl up and roll at you, and nothing hurts them rolled up: jump them and catch them uncurling.
  • You have a health bar. Water coolers are checkpoints: touch one for a water break and full health. Water bottles and lunch boxes heal you, coffee speeds you up for a while, and a box of rods or a new wheel makes your tool reach further, three times over.
  • Every level hides the letters H A N D S, each found a different way. Nothing secret glows — look for what looks a little off. Find all five for an extra life.
  • Up aims up, up + forward aims diagonally, down in the air aims down. Up climbs; down + jump slides under things or drops through a plank.
  • Old habits work on the title screen.

Credits

Thank you to the artists who gave their work away:

  • Generic RUN n GUN pack — Vaca Roxa (@Anokolisa, @al_MSantos) — CC0
  • Glacial Mountains — Vicente Nitti (@vnitti) — CC BY 4.0
  • SunnyLand Tall Forest and Bulkhead walls — Ansimuz
  • Swamp tileset and Nature backgrounds — Assets by Craftpix.net
  • Agent — Chasersgaming
  • Jambo Jungle — @didigameboy — CC BY-SA 4.0 (the jungle and its hero, as used here, are shared under the same licence)
  • Sound effects — public domain. The four hands and their tools, the critters, the old boar, the pipeline and its machines — drawn in code for 798 Hands.