Matchkromia

This game was made in one week for the 7DRL - 2022,

Goal

I tried to take the concepts of match-3 games into a roguelike (but not the kind where you match things in a minigame outside the real game).

You can't directly attack enemies, but you can swap with them. If 3 of the same color are aligned, it's a MATCH. You will find tools along your way to help with this task.

Beware, you are also colored ;)

Disclaimer: the balance is meh. Runs are short: 10min. More of  a boss rush than a dungeon. I didn't manage to get the time to brew an interesting dungeon map with this mechanic.

Controls

Controls are in the game, written at the bottom of the screen.

Tips

Essential

• At each level, you must kill the Boss (the 4 letters in square). They can't move but can attack (harder). And they continually spawn small enemies.
• You can (and should) move and MATCH along diagonals.
• Type Space to activate time freeze.  There is a cooldown (which decreases for each MATCH).

Others

• You gain a bit of life for each MATCH.
• It actually hurts you to get MATCHed. (at least until you find some items).
• The AI never causes a MATCH to happen by itself, even if it would kill you.
• You can inspect things with Enter.
• You can inspect yourself to see your current powers.
• There are 4 levels

Apologies

Things that I realized after the end of the jam. They don't break the game but certainly are a bit unpleasant.

• No, you can't skip the tuto. (sorry) (fixed post jam)
• Yes, you lose life (and die) before you gain life in a match. (sorry)
• Yes, you are hurt instead of being healed at bonus rooms if you are multicolor (at least without other bonuses). (sorry)
• Yes, it is possible to be soft locked when the boss is in a corner (that's rare). (sorry)

Authors

• Drestin: programming, game design, lore
• lehomar2vinci: , Music, SoundFX

Credits

• Made in TypeScript
• Mostly own engine, with some stuff from rot.js
• Fonts: FiraCode, Simple Mood
  

Post-jam fix

The playable version include a small fix I made post-jam (2 days after). The only thing it changes is that you can skip the tutorial once you went through it. I considered it was not a real change to the game since it doesn't affect the first play through, and is just a quality of life for the following ones.

The strictly jam version is available for download (web-no-fix.zip). Extract everything in a folder and open index.html.