Description:

You are the Wax Whisperer.
Your powers may well be unmatched,
But some of your enemies are still out there...
Not for much longer though, not with what your are about to unleash. :candle:

Burn continuous lines of candles to score points! The longer the fire survives the more points it brings you, and the closer it brings you to unfathomable power from this mysterious temple you've found your way to!

Controls:

• left & right to move pieces horizontally
• down to make the pieces fall faster
• up to make pieces fall instantly as far as it can
• Z & X to rotate pieces
• You can also play with a gamepad with the dpad and A/B for rotating!
• You can select a difficulty on the titlescreen! (start with normal!)

Notes:

This is a solo entry, only I ran out of time for the compo so I kept running with it for the jam category!

Unfortunately had to give up on adding audio because I lost too much time fighting Pico-8's coding restrictions (only a certain total number of instructions are allowed, and it seems that number was a little too low for everything I wanted to do :smile:)

I'm bummed about no audio, but I'm pretty happy with the game otherwise! I swear I didn't intend to make a tetris-like, I originally had differently-shaped pieces and you could only flip them horizontally instead of rotating them. But I figured it'd actually be more fun with classic tetraminoes, as they are easier to wrap one's head around, and rotation, as it gives more agency over the game which results in more fun.

Anyway I had fun making it!

Let me know your thoughts if you play it! When I started on the candle-burning puzzle idea I really didn't know if it would end up being fun, and I'm still not quite sure :smile: so I'd love it if you could tell me whether you think it is or not!

Thanks, cheers!