The Great Flood by cassowary

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made by cassowary for Ludum Dare 50 (COMPO)

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​The world is being flooded by a rainstorm of mythical proportions!

Can our frog hero escape the rising water before it's too late, or is this just delaying the inevitable?

Use the arrow keys to move around. You can push boxes. Metal (red) boxes will sink in water, but wooden boxes will float. The water rises every time you take a step, and will submerge one layer of the level every five steps. You can climb up a ladder, which only counts as one step.

The Roman numerals on each layer represent the height of the layer. I think I forgot to say that in the game. Oops.

The quotes are from various world mythologies about floods, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, the King James Bible, and a few others.

There are 10 levels total.

Controls: * Arrow keys to move. * R to reset the level. * Z to undo.

Tools used: * Music: FL Studio w/ GeneralUser GS soundfont and sampled vinyl record noise * Sound effects: pxtone + Audacity + my actual real life bathtub * Art: Aseprite * Badly-Rendered Text: Gimp * Programming: vanilla JS / canvas (my own custom engine, based on code from chthonic brilliance). * Levels created with Tiled and compiled into a simpler format using the ulvl Python library.

Post-submission change: fixed two minor bugs - one where Z/R wouldn't work in Firefox with 'type to search' enabled, and one where certain sound effects wouldn't play

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Ratings

Overall 8th 4.305⭐ 115πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Fun 20th 4.143⭐ 114πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Innovation 40th 4.106⭐ 115πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Theme 196th 3.836⭐ 112πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Graphics 47th 4.212⭐ 115πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Audio 52th 3.914⭐ 112πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Humor 339th 2.635⭐ 98πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Mood 31th 4.123⭐ 112πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ
Given 20πŸ—³οΈ 35πŸ—¨οΈ