Flooder

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Overview

Flooder is a puzzle game that works on original Nintendo Game Boy Color hardware. Can you flood the entire screen with a single color in less than 25 moves? Test your wits with this fun puzzle game.

It is also known as GB Flood It and Ink Spill.

The game has a physical release on cartridge. Niels of Ferrante Crafts helped release the physical version and designed the box and the manual of the game, JoseJX helped with support for the Analogue Pocket version, and SuperSamio and bbbbbr helped with the input selector. The author thanks the whole community for their support.

Made by: Oliver Balfour

Controls guide

Playing

Button and key	Action
Up/Left	Move the colour selector up the list
Down/Right	Move the colour selector down the list
A`X`/B`Z`	Flood with the selected colour

Screens

Button and key	Action
Start`Enter`	Start from the title screen
Start`Enter`	Deal a new board after a win or a loss

Cheatsheet

Rules

Board: 14 by 14 squares
Colours: 6: purple, blue, green, yellow, red, pink
Moves: 25 per board, counted down on screen
Start point: The top-left square
Same colour: Picking your current colour costs no move
Win: Whole board one colour; a fresh board follows
Lose: Counter reaches zero

Tips

Choosing the colour your area already has does nothing and does not use a move, so a mistaken press of A on it is free.
The selector wraps around: Up from purple jumps to pink and Down from pink jumps to purple, so any colour is at most three presses away.
Grow toward the bottom-right corner first. The far corner is the last part to fill, and big diagonal gains early leave the end game with only a few scattered patches.
Before each move, look at which colour touches your area along the longest border; that is usually the one that swallows the most squares.
The flood spreads only through squares that share a side, never diagonally, so a single square cut off in a corner will need a move of its own unless you plan around it.