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Aqua Journey
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About the game
You are a drop of water, and the rooms you pass through are cold, warm and very hot by turns. Aqua Journey is a small puzzle platformer built around one idea: your body changes with the temperature. Where it is mild you are a liquid that slides along the floor and jumps. In the cold you freeze into a solid block, and in the heat you boil into a gas that floats upward. The thermometer on the left of the screen shows where you stand between the three states.
Each of the six rooms places areas of cold and heat between you and the exit, and the puzzle is deciding when to be which form. A gap that a liquid cannot cross may be an easy float for steam; a ledge too high to jump to may be reached by drifting up and cooling off at the right moment.
It was made by Yeldham (Michael Alexsander Silva Dias) for the Godot Community Game Jam of June 2018, where it placed 8th overall, and released as free software. It is short, calm, and a nice little idea.
Playing it here
Click Play and wait for the page to load (about 8 MB, downloaded only when you press the button). On the title screen choose Play; About shows the credits and the licence. The game needs a keyboard, and nothing is saved between visits.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| A / D or Left / Right arrows | move |
| W or Up arrow | jump as a liquid; rise as a gas |
| S or Down arrow | go down |
| Esc or P | pause |
Tips
Watch the thermometer. It shows how hot or cold you are, so you can see the next change of form coming.
Think about what each form is good at. Liquid jumps, solid is heavy, gas floats; most rooms ask you to use two of them in the right order.
Use the temperature zones on purpose. You change slowly, so a short visit to a hot or cold area is a way to adjust, not only an obstacle.
FAQ
Is it saved? No. Nothing is stored between visits.
Why is there no Exit button? The page cannot be closed from the game, so this version hides it.
Is it free to share? Yes. The code is under the GNU Affero GPL; the artwork is under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 and the music and other sounds under CC BY and CC0 as listed below.
Credits and licence
Aqua Journey by Michael Alexsander Silva Dias ("Yeldham"), 2018: code under the GNU Affero General Public License 3, artwork under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); the other sounds are CC0. Music: "Running Waters" by Jason Shaw (Audionautix, https://audionautix.com), Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/); the game author lists it as CC BY-SA 3.0. The game runs on Godot Engine 3.5.3 (MIT).
Change in this version: exported for the web, with the Exit button hidden. The licence texts, the complete source and the build script are linked from this page.