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It is incredible and learning how to use it is fun in itself.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1045992,"author_name":"Herka","author_uid":"herka","epoch":1713287709,"text":"Nice take on tetris, well done that you achieved this on your own","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1046020,"author_name":"Sam Minh","author_uid":"sam-minh","epoch":1713287811,"text":"A nice variation on tetris. I love tetris and this gives a nice twist to it. It is very satisfying to see the candles slowlybe consumed.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1046120,"author_name":"HollowBearGames","author_uid":"hollowbeargames","epoch":1713288362,"text":"Absolutely love this idea, it's a really nice twist on the theme. The graphics are really charming and the fact you done it using the pico8 restrictions is just the icing on the cake. Really found the gameplay enjoyable and pretty addicting once I realised what I was trying to do. It's certainly a shame regarding the audio but totally understandable. Great work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1046323,"author_name":"Speedphoenix","author_uid":"speedphoenix","epoch":1713289216,"text":"This is a really nice variant on stacker games\n\nI especially appreciated how the rotation was properly put away from the up arrow\n\nLoved it, will play more of it later on my pico","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1046581,"author_name":"RollCreators","author_uid":"rollcreators","epoch":1713290440,"text":"Nice modified tetris)\nI like this principle where you give good game and add some interesting mechanic","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1046851,"author_name":"Erivas_Soulares","author_uid":"erivas-soulares","epoch":1713291735,"text":"Amazing Tetrislike!\n\nIt took me some time to fully understand the burning mechanic, but once it dows, it blew my mind!!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1047051,"author_name":"CO5MONAUT","author_uid":"co5monaut","epoch":1713292755,"text":"That's a great idea! You definitely managed to implement the tetris mechanics in a more interesting way than I did ahahh\nspecial respect for PICO-8. Art - my respect. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1047076,"author_name":"Le Slo","author_uid":"le-slo","epoch":1713292914,"text":"Very cool idea and execution, as always. It's hard to keep track mentally of multiple fires without them turning out, but I've already seen some improvement in my strategy, so it's probably more a point of the depth of the system than a bad thing. It's a same the lack of audio, is what could have helped me to play this for too long!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1049586,"author_name":"PieRo_PBeS_studio","author_uid":"piero-pbes-studio","epoch":1713304785,"text":"I would like to know how to make such beautiful games on pico 8, all the little animations, the visual effects, the little flames, the lights, the precision of the movements and collisions. The UI is beautiful and gives the information you need. The general feedback for the player is great and above all innovative and super interesting gameplay as usual... too strong","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1051335,"author_name":"LDJam user 342640","author_uid":"342640","epoch":1713318538,"text":"Really cool take on tetris, once I figured out what was going on it was really satisfying. Lots of fun, great entry!!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1051937,"author_name":"Sheepolution","author_uid":"sheepolution","epoch":1713328066,"text":"I liked it! It was fun to make very long candles to then have them burn all the way down. The game revolves around score, but I wish it was more focussed on survival. Meaning that I would have preferred a long burn not to give you more points, but to give you a bonus instead that help you keep your field low (like those bombs). But regardless of that, another solid entry with nice graphics.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1055384,"author_name":"torcado","author_uid":"torcado","epoch":1713369428,"text":"this is great! lovely take on tetris, the string system adds a whole level of strategy i never wouldve thought about otherwise. really nice art and animation, would've loved some audio along with it! (you may want to opt-out of that category!)  \nnice job :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1056468,"author_name":"Nick Blackwood","author_uid":"nick-blackwood","epoch":1713379464,"text":"Ohhhh this is very elegant in terms of design! Had a lot fun figuring out the mechanics. I think we need more games like this. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1057859,"author_name":"Rawb","author_uid":"rawb","epoch":1713392070,"text":"Really cool idea for a game. It  isa clever twist on tetris. It was fun trying to set up long lines of  candle to burn","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1058228,"author_name":"JudJudson","author_uid":"judjudson","epoch":1713397674,"text":"I love tetris so much and this is a genuinely super interesting version of it!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1058600,"author_name":"LDJam user 147386","author_uid":"147386","epoch":1713404882,"text":"Good work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1060148,"author_name":"josemwarrior","author_uid":"josemwarrior","epoch":1713443529,"text":"What a level of detail for a 48-hour game. Having a difficulty selector in a jam game is commendable, but using up all of the pico-8 tokens is absolutely insane.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1064659,"author_name":"Local Minimum","author_uid":"local-minimum","epoch":1713549132,"text":"Cool tetris variant!\n\nI got a bit confused because Z\/X selection is not my habit and it never said anything in the instructions on how to start playing. :laughing:  So I was about to give up there.\n\nThen when I finally after pressing all buttons on the keyboard managed I played without realizing the Z\/X for rotation so that was kind of a hard mode.\n\nFinally I understood the controls and got playing. \n\nI didn't realize though that the 1x1 was a bomb and that you had to snuff it to explode it until afterwards. But I think I accidentally made that happen once.\n\nIt's an interesting mechanic to only clear by fire and thus having to avoid placing in certain areas. I didn't get very far but I enjoyed playing.\n\nIt feels like some highscore system would have helped me stay at it and audio \/ music. I'm not sure if there should have been any since the rating option is still available but the game was completely silent for me.\n\nNot understanding menu: https:\/\/youtu.be\/lVI7CRL9paw \nPlaying without rotation: https:\/\/youtu.be\/KvZQdwJFqwY \nPlaying with rotations: https:\/\/youtu.be\/Hrk1R2lsrec","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1065712,"author_name":"alec","author_uid":"alec","epoch":1713571023,"text":"Love the little effect with the flame, and explosive tip lol. This game has revealed just how bad I am at Tetris. With some music & SFX I think this could be a standout hit!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1066501,"author_name":"Speedphoenix","author_uid":"speedphoenix","epoch":1713609086,"text":"What's the highscore? I have trouble hitting 30k\n![hot wax 28109.png](\/\/\/raw\/3b8\/55\/z\/64875.png)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1066729,"author_name":"dimesto52","author_uid":"dimesto52","epoch":1713616356,"text":"I'm really bad at this game but I clearly see that this revisitation of tetris has infinite potential and I would really like to see it in a future full game","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1071283,"author_name":"TRASEVOL_DOG","author_uid":"trasevol-dog","epoch":1713818408,"text":"Thank you so much for the gameplay videos @local-minimum, these are really invaluable!\n\nAnd thank you all for the feedback and the kind words! I'm working on a postjam version (with sound! :smile:) which sould come out in the next few days if you're interested!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1074073,"author_name":"LDJam user 243193","author_uid":"243193","epoch":1714116910,"text":" Cool idea of using fire to burn the wax instead of using lines.\n I need to figure out good strategy to win this game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld55\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.lexaloffle.com\/bbs\/?tid=141756","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"94669","g_author":"1006693","g_event":"LD55","g_eventkey":"120","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"442256","g_title":"Hot Wax \ud83d\udd6f\ufe0f","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"87","g_commentcount":"26","g_site2_node_id":"392795","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"392795","n_urlkey":"442256","n_parent":"383062","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/55\/hot-wax","n_slug":"hot-wax","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"6693","n_created":"1713231619","n_modified":"1777008017","n_version":"1234047","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD55","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":4,"author":6693,"body":"![hotwax p8_3.png](\/\/\/raw\/52a\/1\/z\/63500.png)\n\n\n## Description:\n>*You are the Wax Whisperer.*  \n>*Your powers may well be unmatched,*  \n>*But some of your enemies are still out there...*  \n>*Not for much longer though, not with what your are about to unleash.* :candle:\n\nBurn continuous lines of candles to score points! 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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!\n\n## Controls:\n* **left** & **right** to move pieces horizontally\n* **down** to make the pieces fall faster\n* **up** to make pieces fall instantly as far as it can\n* **Z** & **X** to rotate pieces\n* You can also play with a gamepad with the dpad and A\/B for rotating!\n* You can select a difficulty on the titlescreen! *(start with normal!)*\n\n## Notes:\nThis is a solo entry, only I ran out of time for the compo so I kept running with it for the jam category!\n\nUnfortunately 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:)*\n\nI'm bummed about no audio, but I'm pretty happy with the game otherwise! 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