Work:Mine Cart Madness

From The Pool

Genre: Puzzle

Storyline: The evil Doctor Von Lichtenstein has kidnapped your girlfriend and is holding her for ransom! Luckily you are a world famous railway engineer working in a jewel mine. If you can make enough jewels in your mine, you just might be able to save your girlfriend!

Gameplay: The player must use the mouse to rotate railroad junctions and alter the paths of incoming minecarts. The minecarts should be steered toward a number of bins at the bottom of the screen, and sorted by colour. Once a bin is full of all the same colour, a gem is produced and that colour is eliminated. Once all colours are eliminated, the level ends and progresses to the next. If a player makes a mistake (puts a red cart on top of a green pile) they may use one of their limited amount of dynamites to remove that cart.

As for obstacles, the player is also working against a time limit. Additionally, minecarts can crash into eachother, or even gems, potentially smashing that gem and making the player start over.

In later levels there is a bomb which must be clicked rapidly to be defused. If it explodes, the explosion will empty any bin it touches and rearrange the junctions randomly.

Specifications

Technologies: Python, Pygame
Influences: Zuma, [http://www.popcap.com/launchpage.php?theGame=rocketmania