Ceiling is Lava

by olivier-millochau

co-authored: @arthur-vigneault, @aymeric-le-moal, @sinjesavant

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.09

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.24

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.89

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.21

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.86

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.85

It was a day like any other for our little dwarves ... Until the earth began to shake and lava began to flow from the ceiling !
You need to act quickly ! Slow the flow of lava to give them time to escape !

Gameplay
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Each level consist of one or more lava flow, aiming right toward a dwarf village.
You have several tools at your disposition : wood beam, boulder, water and a shovel to dig the earth, make the most of them to buy enough time for the dwarves to get to safety.

*Quick, before it spills !*

Commands
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Escp and P : Pause menu (Retry)

WASD, Arrow keys and Mouse : Move camera

Left click : Choose and use tool

Right click : Rotate structure

The Team
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Aymeric Le Moal : Developper

Arthur Vigneault : UI Developper & Music

Blaise Chauveau : Assets

Olivier Millochau : Assets & Level Design

Disclaimer : The game is rather CPU-intensive, you might prefer the executable version to the web one if your computer is not powerful enough

Tools: Unity

Comments26

cornsyrup5 Apr 2022, 02:58

I especially like the graphics/art style! I wish you could see what happens to the village when you fail to hold off the lava, heh heh heh

Thenerdster5 Apr 2022, 03:00

Awesome entry! The tutorials were fun and let you be creative in solving each level. Congrats on a great game.

leorid5 Apr 2022, 03:20

I think this one is my favorite so far. Cool take on the theme and those puzzles are really great. Even when cheesing some of them with fitting a stone somewhere, where it isn't supposed to fit and blocks everything feels rewarding.

Menu should have another key because ESC ends fullscreen in HTML5 build. But that's just a minor inconvenience to an overall great game.

Edit: I must be blind xD There is a pause button on the right side of the screen where you can reset the level.

malero5 Apr 2022, 03:25

Wow, so many levels! Super fun. Felt like I was able to cheese my way through a few. Love the lava/water physics and shader. Nice work!

Grim Guzzler Out...

ruruie5 Apr 2022, 03:30

Simple but engaging somehow. Really left me wishing for more levels.

RustedShell5 Apr 2022, 03:35

This game was loads of fun, I had some trouble with a few levels but I was sad when I beat the game. I want there to be more. That being said there is always room for improvement and I have a few things to mention. The first is the audio. It fits the theme of the game well but I don't understand why there is a guy laughing every minute. That kinda got repetitive after awhile. The other big problem I had was the shovel was not consistent with the number of times you could use it in any given level. This led to me not being able to plan well before the first attempt. maybe you could add a number to the shovel so we know how many times we could dig in that level. Besides that. Amazing game. Lots of fun

Alex Zahn5 Apr 2022, 08:20

You guys knocked it out of the park! Cute, fun, and creative!

Poppy Entertainment5 Apr 2022, 14:39

good job for the fuild simulation, nice game overall, clear and easy to understand, really good job

ArianaD6 Apr 2022, 01:34

Omg I really liked it, I played for a good while and even the tutorial part was fun ! It's something I'd definitely return back to and play again, if it was an app I'd 100% be addicted!! I liked the visuals too! Nice job!

arthurr6 Apr 2022, 10:46

j'ai adore c fluide de beaux graphismes et de bonnes idées gg

vrerabek6 Apr 2022, 10:47

Fantastic game, I would truly play full game of this.
Great art and I would recognize the WOW dwarf laugh everywhere :D

The amount of levels surprised me, good job!

MisterUnshaved6 Apr 2022, 10:52

Very well implemented game, I liked the graphics and sound designs! It was really fun to play and tweak the levels.

javve6 Apr 2022, 11:22

I really liked this! Nice graphics, fun game mechanics, nice with the physics!
...and who doesn't like lava?

One suggested improvement could be no move the tool selection menu to the side instead of having it in the middle of the screen. But it was definitely ok as it as :)

Bakaraf6 Apr 2022, 14:07

Fantastic submission ! The number of level is impressive, so is the variety of situation and riddle, congrats to you ! Ça n'compte quand même que pour un !

LDJam user 2795466 Apr 2022, 16:51

Really fun puzzle game! The strategy to setting up some of the levels was pretty intense. Great work!

Skleembof6 Apr 2022, 21:58

Great puzzle game with interesting and engaging mechanics. It fits the theme perfectly and made me want to keep playing after it ended. The tutorial was expertly done, showing one mechanic at a time to not overwhelm the player.

An undo button would have been useful since I found myself misclicking with the shovel a few times because of how small the blocks are.

arturocacao6 Apr 2022, 22:00

bon cette fois c'est le vrai arthur qui commente, le game design est incroyable, les musiques ne comptent pas que pour un et la méca flu est très fluide (pas sur mon ordi par contre......)

jeu de l'année facilement, fuck elden ring

Olivier Millochauauthor7 Apr 2022, 12:30

@leorid You're definitely not blind :,) ! We took your criticism into account and added it afterward, you were right that a retry button bind to the Esc key on a web fullscreen game is not really ergonomic ...
Anyway, it means a lot that you went back to the game even after trying it once, thanks a lot !

bekirtuncer7 Apr 2022, 18:51

couldnt finish but i loved this game

antoined738 Apr 2022, 12:23

Really nice game I enjoyed it a lot and made it far but could'nt finish !
The music was quickly very annoying imo.
But appart from that you use the mechanic very nicely, congrats !

DaveCo9 Apr 2022, 13:51

This was a lot of fun! I liked the graphics and I'm always a fan of physics type games.

godsboss12 Apr 2022, 17:54

Very nice game! Last level is probably too easy, it's beatable using just the stone.

gamescodedogs12 Apr 2022, 17:55

This is a very interesting and fun puzzle! It was hard to stop playing :smile:. I didn't find anything I didn't like. Maybe some sounds a bit are harsh. But the game is great!
Thanks for making this game!

blobo14 Apr 2022, 17:43

Ooh, the puzzles were fun and really creative. I think the last level was a bit too easy though? There were a few levels near the start that I was able to block 100% of the lava at the source, and I just had to sit and wait for the level to end. A fast forward button would be cool. Really nice game!

alpharock621 Apr 2022, 19:02

Wow, this was one of my favorite games I've played in this jam for sure. Reminded me of lemmings meets falling sand games and I couldn't get enough of it. As a future extension, it would have been nice to have the option to tweak my design a bit if it was *close* without needing to rebuild it entirely. Fantastic job all around!

Trizalio21 Apr 2022, 19:10

Just Wow! Really enjoyed your game!
Remembered myself after 9th level) I'll definitely finish other levels too)
As for suggestions - I'd like to see which levels did i already passed

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