Dario DDS

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.86
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.14
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.29
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.68
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.05
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.60
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★80%
Dario is a dentist who just opened his own practice to pay off his mountain of student debt. Unfortunately, everyone in town hates the dentist and they won't come see him unless their teeth are really in bad shape.

Dario has an evil idea, he will use candy to destroy everyone's teeth so they have to come see him for expensive (and PROFITABLE) implants. Help Dario match up blocks of colored candies to destroy all the teeth in town.

How to play

Getting four of the same color in a row horizontally or vertically will clear the candies. Any teeth pieces adjacent to a cleared candy piece will be damaged. A tooth gets damaged first and then is destroyed. The darker teeth are already damaged. Clear all the teeth pieces to win.

Update: There was a bug with clearing out the level when you won before moving on to the next one. This was fixed shortly after the compo ended as per the allowance in the rules.

Tools used:

coding: vim

art: aseprite, inkscape

sound: sfxr, lmms, abundant-music.com

Libraries used:

* SDL 2.0.3

* SDL_Mixer 2.0.0

* boost 1.57.0

Comments23

Super Hamster
Super Hamster20 Apr 2015, 03:29
At first I was like "Oh another tetris game woop-dee-doo". And then I was like "WHY ARENT MY COMPLETE ROWS FALLING" and finally I was like "ooooh that's what your supposed to do". Anyways, I liked the twist to tetris. As I told you on irc, the graphics were missing for the windows version. However I could hear the audio which was fitting(I don't know why you won't let me rate it :( ) Cool idea!
vini60
vini6020 Apr 2015, 05:05
The idea is nice but it doesn't fit the theme. A very fun tetris like game.
Armanky
Armanky20 Apr 2015, 05:08
It's basically Dr. Mario, so I can't complain too much about the gameplay. I'm awful at Dr. Mario and that hasn't really changed. The story is pretty fun in a kind of sadistic way.
barkergames20 Apr 2015, 05:49
Very much like Dr Mario, interesting twist.
Nanolotl
Nanolotl20 Apr 2015, 07:26
Not the most original mechanics, but very will executed. I enjoyed the music too.
DKoding20 Apr 2015, 14:15
Why isn't this game called Teethris? :-)
bentglasstube
bentglasstubeauthor20 Apr 2015, 14:18
haha, it's more like Dr. Mario than tetris so the name is a play on that.
GameDevExtreme21 Apr 2015, 13:30
I will tweet you with a gameplay and review video soon.
blaster39121 Apr 2015, 14:05
A nice play on tetris, I had to read the readme to find out what on earth was happening, but after that it was fine.
Horsed
Horsed21 Apr 2015, 14:09
Man, that mouth looks... horrifying. After trying a couple of minutes I still didn't manage to figure out the rules for clearing blocks. The music makes it feel like tetris (which I like).
bentglasstube
bentglasstubeauthor21 Apr 2015, 15:48
Sorry about the confusing gameplay, I have added a description of how to play. I also added audio to the categories that can be rated - I'm not sure why it wasn't showing up.
Zeriver
Zeriver21 Apr 2015, 18:22
A nice variation of Tetris. At the beginning rules were a bit ambiguous but player can quickly get them. Pretty fun game to play with ok graphics and decent audio.
Matt Tuttle
Matt Tuttle22 Apr 2015, 00:25
This was an incredibly difficult Dr Mario style game. I wish diagonals would have matched or maybe just 3 in a row. Overall it was a fun game and it kept my interest until I lost. The poor kid choked on a pile of candy...
dvdfu
dvdfu22 Apr 2015, 00:30
Really funny scenario! Catchy music, too.
OnlySlightly22 Apr 2015, 00:33
I loved the setting :) the bizarre visual style really set a fun tone.
Gunzil
Gunzil22 Apr 2015, 00:36
Having the L shaped pills wasn't particularly fun to play with compared to the traditional pills or possibly the Luigi style I haven't tried. Unclear if I'm intentionally destroying their teeth or fixing them also.

Nice audio and graphics, felt suitably gross for doing mouth work.
Bishkip22 Apr 2015, 06:52
I played a bit of Dr Mario when I was younger, wasn't good at it then, still not very good at it now. Nice take on it.
sorlok
sorlok22 Apr 2015, 12:19
Hah! Very interesting idea, and good mechanics. The candies look a bit visually off (of the grid), which can make them hard to line up at times, but it's not a huge problem. Good game!
Langouste29 Apr 2015, 16:46
Super Game! I love it ;) Thanks
Snicklodocus
Snicklodocus30 Apr 2015, 03:00
Cool take on Dr. Mario! Fun art and good music. Connection to the theme could have been better, but it's a good game regardless! Great job!

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