DEBUGGER — Press kit

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A match puzzle for iOS and Android that, to anyone glancing over your shoulder, looks exactly like you are debugging a production system.

Fact sheet

Description

Black screen. Neon green logs. CPU load climbing. To anyone glancing over your shoulder on the train, you are debugging a complex production system. What you are actually doing is connecting three or more matching symbols.

You play an incident response engineer covering 16 data centers around the world. Pick a degraded site on the world map, travel there — travel time comes from the real distance, so crossing the planet costs real time — and patch the bugs on site. That is the puzzle.

While you work, CPU, MEM and TRACE keep rising. Clearing three at a time will never outrun the load: you have to build long chains and cash them in before the multiplier expires.

Features

• A disguise first: every screen reads as an operations terminal, not a game
• 16 real-world data centers, with travel time based on geographic distance
• Three pressures — CPU freezes the board, MEM only drops on big clears, TRACE is the real timer
• Fatigue that recovers only in real time, so knowing when to rest matters
• Eight escalation windows a day, each with its own rule for what counts as progress
• Monthly global leaderboard; registration is optional
• Short sessions — one incident takes about a minute

Video

Gameplay trailer (56 seconds): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfM-RrQbZc

Need the raw file for your own edit? Write to debugger@sumire-sakamoto.co.jp.

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