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Meltdown
Meltdown
by Jelly Butter Peanut Time
A puzzle game of evil-doers and do-gooders. Join the good side and help clear the board of nasties. Or join the dark side and make sure that your pieces stay on the board.
Judging Instructions
Launch the app, and pick a side. Use the W,S,A,D or arrow keys to move your piece around the board. Line up 4 matching pieces to trigger your side’s action. Good guys wipe things out, bad guys add more blocks.
Developed and tested in Chrome 13 — that’s not to say it doesn’t work in other browsers, but there could be surprises.
Who
JCBarry — Charlotte, NC
spagalloco — Charlotte, NC
jasonmcleod — Charlotte NC
How
Crafty.js, Socket.io, Express, Jade, jQuery Sound effects by http://www.superflashbros.net/as3sfxr/ Music by Matt McFarland
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vincentpoon
contestant
therazorbladejudgeI like the idea of good vs. bad but it doesn’t go far enough. The gameplay is still the same, just the scoring goes to the different sides. The controls are a bit too slow which makes getting a piece all the way to the other side sometimes impossible. Need a mute option.
hunedjudgeMusic starts playing and the map tiles draw, but then nothing. Nice mushroom cloud, though :)
- contestant
Aw boo :( you might have caught it when the server was choking up. I’m playing in chrome now :D
Thanks for your vote!
mranneyjudgeVery fun and original game. Once I got past the technical difficulties, I was having fun right away. The concept here is really neat.
I started in Chrome 14, but the new WebSocket implementation silently failed. It took a long time to figure out that this was WS failing and not because I didn’t understand the game. A simple “connecting…” and “connected” somewhere on the screen would have helped a lot. Once in Safari, the game worked as intended, except it kept freezing up, requiring a reload.
Even with those technical challenges, it’s a great entry.
Zugwalt
contestantGame would work in spurts (chrome) and when it did it was entertaining but then it would hang for a while yet scores would randomly go. Awesome music and design!
csanzjudgeloved this game. <3
mdyer
contestantAddicting.
sventuredjudgeGame would load, but would just display a blank board in Chrome 13 and Firefox.
geradjudgeIf I could give this six stars for fun I would! Liked the design and sound, and the intro instructions were well executed. It might be worthwhile to move the intro up, as I didn’t get the part of the problem / part of the solution until I started playing. (Or maybe just get rid of part of the problem and make that AI). Similar to last year’s winner Swarmation and not quite as socially innovative (it’s too easy to win playing by yourself), so loses a couple of points for innovation.
All in all, nice work, I’ll definitely keep playing this for days to come. :–)
mustardamus
contestantjimfleming
contestantPlayed this for about an hour yesterday – very fun!
carsonmcdonald
contestant
Cool music!