NIJI - A Colorful Rainbow One-Dimensional Action Match-3 Puzzle Game

Inspired by this Famicart: NIJI by @haya_a_TECS

Music was highly influenced by the Moon Theme of the NES Duck Tales game.

Instructions:

  1. press up/down to make your fire flower line change lanes in the rainbow
  2. press <z> to go faster
  3. catch incoming flowers by touching them with your fire flower line
  4. use left/right to highlight a flower in the line
  5. press <x> to select it and move it around with left/right
  6. press <x> again to place it
  7. match 3 flowers of the same color to explode them and earn score points
  8. the more flowers you explode in a single move the more points they're worth
  9. if you miss catching a flower, it'll get added to the back of the file in a frozen state
  10. only way to unfreeze a frozen flower is to explode another flower next to it
More information
StatusIn development
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
AuthorGuerraGames
GenrePuzzle
Made withPICO-8
Tags8-Bit, action-puzzle, match-3, PICO-8

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Minty_The_Minter3 days ago

This is amazing, I've always loved Mario Power-ups and their designs. In addition to my love for them, I've wanted a game where they get the spotlight. This does just that.

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BlueJackalope6 years ago (1 edit)

A short ingame explanation of the controls would have been great, since I dove right in and I didn't understamd what was happening xD

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Olivia C Dunlap8 years ago

Cute! :D

Does pressing the left-right keys (highlighting different flowers) do anything?It could use something of a tutorial, even if you just put in in the text description of the game.

Also, it doesn't seem to ramp up in difficulty, from what I can tell. But I'm excited to see where it goes!

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GuerraGames8 years ago (1 edit)

Yeah, I apologize for not adding proper instructions... I just had to upload it in a hurry as I was traveling out of town. I'll add them later tonight when I get some spare time.

It does ramp up in difficulty by throwing more flower types at you and it becomes a bit faster gradually over time. It still needs some cosmetic work here and there though. Please don't hesitate to give more feedback, though! Thanks!

edit: removed instructions from here and added them to the game's description text.

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Ofihombre8 years ago

The Music Rainbow puzzle from the Mario Fire Flowers

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