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Hot Wax 🔥
Place candles and ignite slowly unfolding chain reactions in falling-block puzzle challenges
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Candles drop into the board, waiting to be arranged and set alight. Rather than clearing lines instantly upon placement, the goal is to position pieces so that igniting them sparks slowly unfolding chain reactions across the melting wax.
Play spans six distinct game modes tailored around different objectives. Ritual challenges you to hit a targeted score as quickly as possible, while Penance tasks you with clearing away an existing mass of wax using the fewest flames possible. Eternal offers endless high-score chasing, Glory tests your planning by requiring you to place an entire set of pieces before burning everything down with a single flame, Slow-Burn provides customizable training at a steady difficulty, and Service supplies a fresh seeded challenge every day. Ritual, Penance, Eternal, and Glory each offer three difficulty settings, and completing runs unlocks more than 30 visual palettes.
Game features
- Rebindable controls: Play with either keyboard or gamepad, featuring full key rebinding and toggleable rumble support.
- Palette unlocks: Earn over 30 visual palettes by playing through the different modes.
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Community feedback from itch.io.
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I picked this up on here some time back, and then I grabbed a copy over on Steam as well (hooray, congrats!) Would I be able to pass along the Steam key I got to another person?
Such a great feeling when an eagerly awaited title drops on Steam and it turns out you've already got it sitting in your itch.io library! Grabbing those Punkcake bundles pays off every single time!
Will the full release actually be a Pico-8 title? If that's the case, all I really want is to get my hands on the card file(s). Since I'm on Android, running it through an emulator is the sole way I can play.
Damn this demo takes up just 1mb, plus the page looks awesome. I really love the visuals, we can truly sense the passion behind this project!
What a clever spin on Tetris! Do you plan on adding remappable keybinds down the road? Personally, I like steering the blocks using my left hand while handling rotations (plus hard drops) with my right.
Are you considering an Android port? I wanna get this running on my handheld. I've been spending time on the Pico 8 release, though I'd really love those juicy visual upgrades.