Bubbled Bugs

Bubbled Bugs is a roguelike, puzzle game in which you drop color balls into a box and try to keep them below the line at the top of the box. It's like Suika Game, but instead of merging, balls of the same color shrink (and eventually break) when they touch each other.

The game is played through 32 rounds. On each round, you drop balls until the round bar is full. When a round starts, you're presented with three options to choose one. These options are either special balls or upgrades. You can also "re-roll" to get new options, if available.

Ball hits generate pickup elixir, which is stored on the pickup bottle (little bottle on the "Next" section). When the bottle is full, all the collected elixir is released turning a random color ball into a pickup ball. Pickup balls gives you bugs, sword attacks and multipliers when they break.

More rules

• Only the active ball (the highlighted one) can interact with other balls of the same color, shrinking and breaking them.
• Pickup and white balls are treated as wildcards within color and size clusters - they're included in the cluster.
• Rock balls are inert, they don't interact with other balls.
• Rock balls can only be broken using sword attack pickups.
• There are 3 multiplier pickups: x2, x4 and x8. They're cumulative with a maximum value of x16.
• Each collected bug adds 20 points to the total score at the end.
• Getting at least one bug of each type adds 250 points to the total score at the end.
• Getting to the end of the game adds 500 points to the total score at the end.

Scoring

The scoring system is based on combos.

• A combo starts when a ball is dropped and lasts while it's active.
• Whenever a ball shrinks or breaks, you get points.
• You first get 10 points (the combo base), then points are increased by 1 (the combo increment). So on the second hit you'll get 11 points, on the third 12 points, and so on.
• You can get better combo increments through upgrades.
• Here's an example: if you break 4 balls on a combo with a combo increment of 3, you'll get a score of 10+13+16+19=58 points.

Controls

• Left/right arrow keys - Move balls.
• Z - Drop ball.
• X - Select/Confirm.
• Hold Z - Show balls from upgrades menu.

Credits

Art, code and music by Vicente Romero.