Bot Match 3 by interface

made by interface for LD 41 (COMPO)

Tower Defense meets Match-Three. Survive your bots through the waves of jewels. Don't run out of energy!

QuickStart

Point and click. Press M/Right-click for mouse capture to use WASD + Mouse View.

(this help is also available in-game)

Goal

Game is over when energy reaches zero. Energy is consumed by bots, energy is gained by getting red gems. See the red energy help.

Controls

Toggle mouse capture with the M key or right-click. When mouse is captured you can use mouse and WASD to move.

Bots

Click bots to upgrade or change their settings. This works in mouse capture mode or regular mouse click. Upgraded bots use more energy. You can only have 4 matcher-bots, but as many cleaner bots as you like.

Difficulty

Every 3rd wave, the time between waves lengthens (more energy needed to survive) by 0.5 seconds. Every 5th wave the time to drop decreases by 0.5 seconds. Every 10th wave the jewel box gets bigger.

HTML5 (web)	http://www.redhybridrobot.com/LD41
Unity 2017	http://www.redhybridrobot.com/LD41/Source.zip
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/bot-match-3

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Tero Pulkkinen

23. Apr 2018 · 05:21 UTC

Graphics looks nice, but while the instructions looked ok, the controls are very confusing. I couldnt get my bots to do anything what I wanted, they moved randomly or stayed in place even when I wanted it to move. But anyway, the graphics looks nice, with nice white colour and flat shaded quads.

saoi-games

24. Apr 2018 · 08:30 UTC

I’m not sure if you were able to see it, but I played your game on my stream at https://www.twitch.tv/saoigames tonight.

This game confused me. I thought I was racing to get pairs before my enemy robot did. At first I only noticed the gems that had fallen on the ground, and then when I realized there was a cube of gems I started flying around trying to get as many pairs as possible and wound up upside down somehow. It was slightly humorous, but also frustrating because the controls were backwards.

Thank you for inviting me to play your game.

At the end I also got myself into a state where there were no gems, just timer going down. Its a bug you might want to track down and fix.

🎤 interface

24. Apr 2018 · 15:00 UTC

The robots are essentially your Tower Defense builds. You can't control them or you don't fight them, they're your (energy-sucking) buddies. The matcher matches gems for you (and is fixed on one side of the jewel box) and the cleaner moves in circles cleaning up from the floor.

Hi @saoi-games - the upside down thing is something that happens in the WebGL build only. Never hit this in the editor or Windows. It's frustrating I agree but no clue what the problem is, it's somehow related to the mouse grab.
As far as no gems appearing that is odd. As per the difficulty it takes longer and longer for a new jewel box to appear - did you check the timer in the upper right hand corner?

saoi-games

24. Apr 2018 · 17:59 UTC

@interface I did check the interface and waited through 4 rounds of what I thought would be gems appearing. It was odd, and I don't know if its related to me trying to play again after I failed.