Jellyboom

Jellyboom is the first game from the Singaporean publisher/developer
Boomzap. It’s similar to a number of Japanese falling block games, like Puyo
Puyo and Super Puzzle Fighter. The story of the game is that “Communist
candies from outer space” are invading the earth, and as a member of the US
FDA “Only you have the knowledge of candies and federal labeling guidelines”
to stop the jelly menace.

The player must arrange a number of falling jellies into groups, forming
“megajellies” for extra points. When the special detonators fall, any blocks
of that colour which are in contact with it will be destroyed. If the jellies
reach the top of the screen, they take over the world.

There are three game modes. In Survival mode you simply play on for as long as
you can. Arcade and Puzzle modes require you to clear set numbers of each
colour of jellies. The difference between them is that Puzzle mode has pre-set
groupings to deal with.

Various specials add variety to the levels. Frozen tiles take a specified
number of turns to thaw, deep-frozen tiles thaw into a random colour, bombs
turn all nearly tiles into their colour, and there are also tiles to remove
all jellies of a certain colour. Also look out for blockers, slicers and paint
bombs.