User blog comment:Btd456Creeper/IH Timed Level Contest (OVER)/@comment-5617649-20150723204307



(Sorry if this is too long, I get carried away sometimes :D. But read it, it's interesting!)

First off, happy birthday Btd456Creeper! (Yes, I saw on your page it's your birthday today)

Now, to the entry description:

I got an insane entry right here. There are 45 seconds to get 75,000 points, and matches will be hard to find due to all the icings. There are also 7-move bombs at the corners inside liquorice locks, meaning they can only be destroyed by a double-hit of a color bomb. Luckily they are already provided, but the combo in the center of the board is under liquorice locks. The dispensers under the center voids and CB combo produce 7-move bombs every time you make a match under them, distracting the player from getting the corner bombs. A conveyor belt also moves from a top empty square to a bottom empty square, causing plans to be ruined sometimes, and chocolate spawners spawn chocolate which reduce the already very cramped board space and can even close off the top.

The candies marked with orange circles remain the same color every time the level is restarted. In the picture, after you match the purples as your first move, the blue would move down the belt and match with the striped candy, freeing it. Then all you have to do is activate the isolated color bomb on the blue, which activates the striped candy and frees the other color bomb, and the candy bombs and the other blue near the center bomb are also freed. Then just activate the center bomb and all the corner candy bombs clear. This scores enough points to get the target score easily.

But before you reject this entry, read on... :)

Since the top is not under orange circles, they change every time the level is restarted. So the board I made is just a very lucky board, and I rigged this level so getting such a lucky board is almost as hard to get as winning the jackpot on the booster wheel and about as hard to get as hearing the weird divine. Color bombs are also extremely hard to be created initially, since the only possible areas for color bomb creation are on the right conveyor belt and the area where the belt turns left. Even creating a color bomb on the part where the belt turns left dispenses a candy bomb, so be careful!

This level is almost impossible without a lucky board because the center candies in liquorice locks have to be freed and activated in order to clear the corner bombs, the bombs have only 7 moves, and a bomb can pop out of a dispenser, distracting you. The limited space makes clearing the locks much harder. There are also chocolate spawners which can produce chocolate which makes matches even harder to find, and the board could constantly shuffle. The spawners could close off the top, and if it does, it's most likely game over because there's not enough space to make necessary special candies or matches to clear the top (that is, if you even survived the corner bombs). Matches are impossible to create to clear any chocolate blocking the top until that icing is removed. There are also only 45 seconds, so you have to be fast. And since this is timed, if you exit without making a move, even on mobile, you can still lose a life. Since I rigged my level, that automatically makes this insanely hard instead of variable.

Finally, there's an apparent design error in this level, as some of the icings appear to be over empty tiles, if you look closely. This is because I originally planned for those areas to be empty tiles, before putting icings at the last minute. I don't feel like fixing it, so just pretend that the icings have tiles under them. :D