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A jam submission

River of LightView game page

Control a flowing river, pass houses and fields to earn points!
Submitted by micecone — 2 days, 23 hours before the deadline
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Character Count
498

Game Code
z=14m={}p=14⬇️=1d={-1,1,z,-z}t=20
function _init()
for _=0,223do
x=rnd(6)+1
add(m,{sub("▒░ˇ⌂▤▥",x,x),1,1,sub("333899",x,x)})end
end
function _update()if(q)return
⬇️=d[btnp()%5]or ⬇️
⧗+=1if(⧗%flr(t)>1)return
t*=.99⧗=1p+=⬇️
if(m[p])then
if(m[p][2]<1)q=1
m[p][2]=0for x in all(d)do
if(m[p+x])m[p+x][3]=m[p+x][4]end
else q=1end
end
function _draw()
cls()●=0i=0
for v in all(m)do
x=i%z*8;y=flr(i/z)*6
●+=v[2]*(tonum(v[3])-1)
?"\f"..v[3]..v[1],x+9,y+20
if(v[2]<1)?"\f1\#c∧",x+9,y+20
i+=1end?"\f9●"..●,52,10
end

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Comments

Submitted

This is impressive! Really cool to see something like this, where it's thinkier with a real time pressure here

Submitted(+1)

This is great! Super vivid visuals

Submitted(+1)

<rereads description> Oh… passing houses and farms! I was trying to direct the river over them.

Very effective use of the built-in glyphs and colour.