Burning Fridges is a Sci-fi puzzle with Sokoban mechanics, but with an addition of alien-enemy AI on the field.
"A spaceship was infiltrated during interstellar voyage. One Mechanic wakes up from crio-sleep to investigate and fix the damage..."
Mouse Controls: Click the adjacent green tiles to move or the main character to pause and skip the turn. Keyboard Controls (Post-Compo only): Arrow keys or WASD to move, Space to pause. Right Arrow or Space to Skip Cut-scenes.
Instructions: Navigate the Mechanic [the green square] and use a Fridge [the red terminal] to capture the Litoxyde spawn [the moving flame]. All boxes can be slided by pushing them in the desired direction. The goal is to plug the hole in the spacecraft shell with a captured Litoxyde. You'll get only one chance to do that - often only one shot with a fridge will be possible at all, so spare your moves and plan the enemy behaviour well. You can foresee where the Litoxyde may be going by measuring it's attraction with the flammable items [the white boxes]. In the post-compo version the enemy's target is marked with red. Also watch for oxygene and temperature levels.
I tried to incorporate both FGL competition and the LudumDare event, combining the themes "Freezing" and "You only get one" in this game. Originally I planned to submit a Compo entry but after the initial 48h I was not satisfied with the result and decided to invest a day more.
I was looking close after the feedback given here in the comments and applied numerous of udates based on them. Besides all the improvements, the updates include 4 additional stages, tightening the A.I. and finaly some sound and music! I took sounds from my LD26 submission, the music is the awesome track Shapeshifter by Clearside (CREDITS)
The current Post-Jam built is version 0.63 (the submission for refference is 0.2) Please if you are in a mood to leave feedback I'll be glad if you reffer the post-compo version.
I want to Thank You All for the kind words and for trying my game !:)
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joppiesaus16 Dec 2013, 15:20
It's a nice puzzle game, but not really based on a theme...
Thanks for trying my game and for the comment. The idea of this puzzle is that if the player makes wrong moves his character will freeze or suffocate to death. Player has only one chance to fix his damaged spaceship. He also have only one spaceship :D
I really like how solid this game feels. I like the idea a lot, but it's sad, as you mentioned yourself, that there's no audio, that would really have added to the experience. I think you used the Theme very well- It's a fairly easy theme to use imo.
Very good game, felt proffesional. - Now go add sound in a non-competition version :P
I agree with the comments above, some audio would have really added to the atmosphere of this game. It's based on the theme as well as it could have been, too. Nice work ^^
Hey, thank you all for the feedback, it is really appreciated. Besides all the improvements I've made to the gameplay and the UI, the updates include 4 additional stages, tightening the AI and finally some sound and music!
Very interesting and innovative mechanics !! Very well polished (except for sound ;) If there was a better theme integration it could have been a very solid entry. But what a difficult theme this time :s Anyway, it's an excellent game :)
Interesting mechanic, though having to keep track of both oxygen and heat levels is a bit too much for me so I ended up ignoring them and just tried to corner the enemy instead. My suggestion is to remove either the oxygen or the heat mechanic to make it easier for the player to strategize. Criticism aside, it's still a really solid game and one of the better ones I've played this round!
Loving the clean cut art style, was very smooth to play with a fairly well designed difficulty curve. Shame there's no audio however... but nonetheless a top notch polished entry, well done for the short time frame. Rated highly.
Got a bit frustrated by the dormitory level. The mechanics are very interesting. Too bad you ran out of time for more levels. Also, I couldn't get the keybd. controls to work in the jam version - you might want to mention those are post jam only. I look forward to playing that one! :)
"Only one" can be put in front of a lot of things I think, like "you control only one character" which applies to a majority of games. I think the use of the theme is a bit weak here. I didn't actually get only one chance, I get plenty of chances.
That said, the game looks and plays really great! Nice entry!
Seems i don't care about the theme, as soon it injects me with good idea the theme is dismissed :D I saw a dynamic puzzle with levels that have single solution, a mechanic that requires a single operation to complete a level(the sliding-through-enemy trick).. and it was the better bid for me :D I don't regret dismissing all the "only one" restrictions that came to my mind :) More than 10 days of euphoria during the competition and updating the post-compo version ware really fun :) Thank you Ludum Dare and all the competitors !
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Very good game, felt proffesional. - Now go add sound in a non-competition version :P
Too bad for the audio, but the game looked good in general.
Why don't you expand this one?
Besides all the improvements I've made to the gameplay and the UI, the updates include 4 additional stages, tightening the AI and finally some sound and music!
That said, the game looks and plays really great! Nice entry!
I saw a dynamic puzzle with levels that have single solution, a mechanic that requires a single operation to complete a level(the sliding-through-enemy trick).. and it was the better bid for me :D I don't regret dismissing all the "only one" restrictions that came to my mind :) More than 10 days of euphoria during the competition and updating the post-compo version ware really fun :) Thank you Ludum Dare and all the competitors !