Hole Town

Hole Town #

By Dave Dobson ##

Platform: HTML5 (JavaScript, CraftyJS)

Genre: Puzzle

Levels: 7

In Hole Town, you play a top-hat wearing industrialist who is trying to recover gems from deep underground. Your only tool to collect these gems is the local rocks. In violation of any semblance of realism, these rocks can produce explosive bombs when you combine them the proper way, and you can use these bombs to dig deeper and deeper into the ground until you've recovered all the gems.

Gameplay and Rules:
Move your industrialist back and forth using either the left and right arrow keys or A & D.
Drop the rock you're carrying with either Space, the S key, or the down arrow.
When you drop a rock, it will fall until it reaches the bottom of the hole or a rock larger than itself. Any smaller rocks it passes by will be moved up one space.
If you create a horizontal row of three or more rocks, they will disappear, and the middle rock (or rocks, if your row is more than three long) will turn into bombs.
Bombs fall down to the bottom of the hole where they form, and they blow up the bottom of the hole, making it one space deeper, and causing all rocks in the hole to drop down one space.
There are five sizes of rocks.
There are five colors of rocks (including symbols for colorblind players or for general convenience). Not all levels use all five colors.
You win the level when you blast out all of the gems it contains.
Later levels may start with some rocks in place, or you may get free bombs to use. To use a free bomb, hit the B key, and you'll drop a bomb in the hole where you're standing.

Tools:

This is an HTML5 game that uses the CraftyJS JavaScript library for games.
For sound, I relied on my mouth plus GoldWave audio.
For graphics, I relied on PowerPoint and GIMP. Yes, his legs actually are literal parentheses. Style points for that?