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Cryonics Inc.
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About the game
Cryonics Inc. puts you on the first day of a very strange job. The company freezes bodies so that people can be woken up some day, and the bodies here are little emoji faces. They appear one by one at an entrance square, and it is your job to build the machinery that carries them, freezes them and files them away.
You do that on a grid with a few kinds of machine. Large arrows are conveyors that move whatever stands on them one square forward. Small arrows are pushers that shove the object in front of them. A blue diamond freezes what passes over it and a white diamond thaws it again. Frozen bodies stick to each other, and the cryochambers, the blue circles, only store them when the frozen group covers every chamber at the same time. So it is not enough to freeze them: the pieces have to arrive in the right shape, and the order in which they come out of the entrance matters.
There are seven levels, the first of which is solved by simply starting the machines, and a level editor. Build your own puzzle, get a short code for it and trade the code with someone else; the Custom Levels screen plays any code you paste in. For each solved level the game keeps your time and the number of machines you used, so you can come back and do it with less.
Mohammed Saud made Cryonics Inc. for js13kGames 2022, where the game had to fit in 13 KB zipped. The mood and the idea of building small machines come from games about engineering puzzles, but everything here, the levels, the look and the text, is the author's own.
Playing it here
Click Play, then START and a level. The first levels open with a note from the company: click to dismiss it. Choose a machine in the left panel, click a free square to place it, and click a placed machine to turn it or remove it. The play button starts the machines and the same button stops them; the circular arrows reset the level. The counters show the time, the machines you used and how many bodies are left. Your best results stay in your browser.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Click / tap on the left panel | choose a machine |
| Click / tap on the grid | place the chosen machine |
| Click a placed machine | turn it or remove it (small buttons appear next to it) |
| Play button | start or stop the machines |
| Circular arrows | reset the level |
| II button | pause menu |
A few things worth knowing
Start by watching. Press play on an empty level to see where the bodies come from and how fast. You can always stop and rebuild.
Freeze at the right moment. Two frozen bodies that touch join together, so you can build the right shape on the way to the chambers.
Fewer machines is a better score. Once a level works, try to solve it again with less.
Credits and licence
Cryonics Inc. was created by Mohammed Saud and is released under the Apache License 2.0. The emojis are drawn with the Twemoji Mozilla font (Twemoji graphics under CC BY 4.0, from Twitter and other contributors); the font file is served from this site. The licence texts and credits are linked from this page.