Shrincube! (4k)

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A cube-based puzzle.

Goal:

Score at or below the "par" for that level, without a cube crushing your creature. You must use the power of Shrincube! to remove the cubes from your path.

Rules:

• The pink square is your creature. The game indicates which square it's on in the level by highlighting that square in blue.
• The creature may move about the level with the w/a/s/d keys. The creature cannot move past any part of a cube which is touching the base squares. This means that you can squeeze the creature between cubes which are rotating.
• If a cube rotates onto a square where your creature is, your creature will die, and the level restarts.
• You can place one Shrincube! at a time on the base squares (marked by highlighting the square in yellow), and activate them at any time.
• "Multiplier" cubes are colored red. Multiplier cubes, once Shrincube!ed, leave behind a green residue of Super Shrincube! (along with a convienient arrow pointing to it). This can be activated with the "Multiplier Activate!" action. Activated Super Shrincube! will use Shrincube! on all the 9 cubes around the Super Shrincube!
• (May not be here in the future: If a Shrincube! is layed down, another square can be marked, which will cancel the previous mark.
• Any cube with Shrincube! under it (active or not) will not be affected by Super Shrincube!
• Shrincube! only takes effect AFTER a rotation completes.
• Shrincube! is guaranteed not to affect your creature.

Scoring:

The game keeps track of your progress through the levels by showing the total score and par in the upper-right hand side of the screen. Your score for the current level is shown in the upper-left hand side of the screen. The current level is just below that, in green. Scoring is marked by the total stroke count over the level par.

Once you activate Shrincube!, the game will count 1 stroke per rotation.

• Letting the cubes rotate: 0 strokes before Shrincube! is activated, and 1 stroke for each rotate after that.
• Placing Shrincube!: 0 strokes (it's free)
• Activating Shrincube!: 0 strokes, and starts the rotation penalty; the rotation penalty includes this rotation
• Using Shrincube! on black cubes: 3 strokes per black cube
• Letting a non-black cube fall off the level: 2 strokes
• Letting a black cube fall off the level: 0 strokes
• Restarting the level: 0 strokes

Controls:

• w/a/s/d or i/j/k/l - Move the creature (the pink square) about the level grid.
• [space bar]
  • When on the introduction, this starts the game.
  • If a Shrincube! is on the board, this will trigger it to activate; it will activate when the cube isn't rotating.
  • If no Shrincube! is on the board, then this will place a Shrincube! on the square the creature is on. This means that there may only be one manually placed Shrincube! on the level at a time. Note that multiple Super Shrincube! can be on the board at once
• [enter] or v- Activate all Super Shrincube! It only becomes active when the cubes aren't rotating.
• r - restart the current level (this will reset the score for the current level, and not affect your total game score).
• n - skip the current level.

Click in the window below and press "space" to start

Current size: 4382 bytes (jar) | 3913 bytes (pack200)

The source is located at my Source Forge project, GroboUtils, but it's only a template, and needs to be combined with a data file to create the final source file.