User blog:ChocophileBenj/Color clearers

Color clearer - what is it ?
This is another idea of mine. They are a kind of candy that appear at the start of the level.

Like candy frogs, they aren't bound to gravity, and you can swap them with candies to make matches. However, they disappear once used in a match, or destroyed by any mean (special candy, etc...). A color clearer does nothing by itself, but if you remove all instances of color clearer of the same color in a level, then all candies of that color are destroyed just like a Moon Struck in Dreamworld (special candies are activated, including these in marmalade)

Examples
To come soon...

How does it interact with...
Chameleon candies : when the last color clearer of a color is removed, chameleon candies that face that color at that time are destroyed, while chameleon candies that switch between that color and another one and are active on the other one will switch with another color instead.

Candy frog : We assume they won't appear together on a level.

Dreamworld : In Dreamworld, we assume there are never than 4 colors on the same time (so you'll never see all 3 colors of color cleaners). However, you can remove 2 colors permanently, in which case Moon struck won't remove any candy, and will only be a time when you won't have to worry about the moon scale, and outside of that you will have to cross fingers so 4 colors won't trigger unlucky cascades ! The moon scale will be made more stable in consequence.

If the last color clearer of a color is removed outside of moon struck, then : if it's not a color of the moon scale, nothing happens, otherwise candies collected by the explosion aren't counted towards the moon scale and a new color is replaced.

If the last color clearer of a color is removed during moon struck, then if it's a color that was removed by moon struck nothing happens, but the color won't come back after moon struck, otherwise all candies on the board are immediately destroyed and candies of a new color will replace them for the rest of the level.