Parul Rotor

Parul Rotor is a puzzle game about the machine inside the giant lanterns of San Fernando, Pampanga. It is made for Kapampangans and Filipinos everywhere, whether you have stood in the December crowd at the Ligligan Parul or grew up with a parol in the window. A giant lantern's bulbs are wired in groups. Each group ends in a hairpin that rides on the rotor, a steel barrel turned by hand. Masking tape on the barrel breaks the current: taped means that group is off, bare steel means it is on. Whoever tapes the barrel writes the light show. In Parul Rotor you do that job. Every lantern shows its circuits (star points, heart, tails, rings, petals, spokes, halo and more) next to a target show of 6 to 16 beats. Lay and peel tape strips on the unrolled rotor, one track per circuit and one column per beat, then crank to test your show. The lantern lights when every beat matches, and you earn…