The Jarring Experience
A downloadable game for Windows and Linux
Description:
Physics-based Tetris game in which you try to push the jar out of the tunnel, without breaking it. The blocks will not disappear when you fill the row. Instead, they will pass the energy gathered from falling to other blocks beneath them, which will cause a chain reaction until a jar receives the energy.
Instructions:
To win you have to push the jar out without breaking it by transferring enough energy to jar blocks (white ones).
Each block that falls will transfer energy gathered by gaining velocity during the fall, to other blocks beneath it. It will cause a chain reaction of energy transfer until the energy reaches the jar. Each energy transfer causes a 10% energy loss. If there is more than 1 block DIRECTLY beneath the block doing the transfer, the energy will be divided equally between those blocks.
If the total energy that the jar has received exceeds the Total Energy threshold, the jar will fall. BUT. If any one jar block receives an amount of energy that exceeds the Max Energy threshold, this block will shatter. If at least 3 jar blocks are shattered, the whole jar breaks and you lose.
Another way to lose is to place blocks in such a way that a new block cannot spawn. This situation becomes more probable as the game goes on because the jar climbs up periodically and the blocks never disappear.
Controls:
LEFT and RIGHT arrow - move the current block left or right, respectively
UP arrow - rotate the current block clockwise. If the rotated block would cause the collision, it will be automatically rotated until a viable rotation is found.
DOWN - increase the acceleration of the current block. It will start falling faster, gaining more energy.
Development team:
Daniel Lewiński (Dante)
Note:
This game was made during Global Game Jam 2024. The theme of the event was "Make me laugh". If you know what is actually going on in this game - I'm sorry, but it had to be done.
Attributions:
https://freesound.org/people/xtrgamr/sounds/241132/
https://freesound.org/people/tistd/sounds/660433/
https://freesound.org/people/Fratz/sounds/19161/
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Cloudjumper/PUSH_IT_-_Live_EP/Cloudjumper_-_P...
TODO: I will update the attributions once I have the time to dig out all of them.
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Install instructions
Download, extract and run.
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