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Ice Cream Fire Fighter by Suyo

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made by Suyo for LD32 (JAM)
Game by Suyooo ( @Suyo_ )
Graphics by Saku ( @nuigurumiSaku )

As rooms in two skyscrapers seem to suffer from spontaneous combustion, only you, the ice cream truck driver, can save these poor souls from a fiery end.

First Ludum Dare in a year, and even though I had extremly little time, I managed to get something out. Would have loved to work a lot more on this as it feels very rough and buggy in some areas, but the time limit loomed over my head before I even had game over conditions coded.

HOW TO PLAY:
Mouse to drop delicious ice cream. Space to swap flavors.
Extinguish fire by creating a row of three same ice creams next to it. (Direction matters.)
Don't let the bar below burning windows run empty.

The development team highly recommends eating ice cream and/or discussing your favorite flavors while playing.
Web (Source) http://greencouchgames.net/games/ludum/032_unconventional/
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=3409

Ratings

Coolness 45% 1497
Overall(Jam) 2.62 964
Audio(Jam) 2.00 645
Fun(Jam) 2.62 810
Graphics(Jam) 2.54 836
Innovation(Jam) 2.68 746
Theme(Jam) 3.08 712

Feedback

SeriouslyCrunchy
21. Apr 2015 · 10:30 UTC
Interesting take on the match-3 genre.

The randomness of the types of ice cream you could get sometimes made this a little hard, though. Or im terrible at match-3!
runvs
24. Apr 2015 · 18:43 UTC
i could not play this entry since i only get a white screen.
hrd_games
26. Apr 2015 · 11:55 UTC
Really nice match-3 game, wish I could rotate the scoops to horizontal, rather than just flip them.
orangemoose
07. May 2015 · 04:51 UTC
The game took a long time to load and just showed me a blank white screen so I didn't even realize it was loading. When it did load and I was able to get a match-3, the game froze.
n8
09. May 2015 · 12:15 UTC
Neat little puzzle game. The game just freezes when I get 3 in a row though.
Smirnov48
09. May 2015 · 13:47 UTC
Doesn't work :( ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT
Yword
09. May 2015 · 15:03 UTC
Very interesting idea! Reminds me of Dr. Mario. Well done!
Big Cow
09. May 2015 · 15:52 UTC
interesting concept, would have liked to see it developed further but appreciate that you ran out of time. it seemed like the time between people on fire appearing was scripted (?) rather than responding to how long it took to put people out, so second time i played, after i put out the first guy, nothing happened. also i found it a bit hard to see sometimes what colour i was going to drop, and i agree with the commentor who said it would be good to put them sideways rather than just vertical. but i found it fun for a bit and a very novel take on match-3 - a nice proof of concept, which i'm sure would be great with further development.
WiErD0
09. May 2015 · 16:32 UTC
Cool game, I really liked the sound effects in it. I don't know if this is intentional or a bug, but when there was a fire on the left building (like 5 floors up or something), I made a chocolate row that drew a line through him, but didn't put out the fire, which caught me by surprise. Cool game, nonetheless!
Reaper
09. May 2015 · 16:32 UTC
Pretty good found that it was a bit slow though
Demy
09. May 2015 · 16:48 UTC
I like how ice cream balls stick together. Not bad =)
yuigoto
11. May 2015 · 15:08 UTC
Nice take on the theme! And yummy too! :3

I love matching games and tetris-like games, so this one was a blast for me! :D

The graphics are lovely and the sound fx reminded me a lot of old handheld console puzzle games!