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Rainbow

In Rainbow, you direct light from the villainous D.D.'s Rainbow Ray through tricky levels in an effort to bring unwanted happiness and excitement to the inhabitants of a gray and mundane island.

While Rainbow's control mechanics are simple, crafty levels and puzzling hazards will test your reflexes and reasoning. Badges for keeping a finger on the screen, conserving frequency bands, and getting collectible stars add to the challenge.

Features, in cliché bullet-point style:

(* actually six)

Rainbow was released for iOS (via Apple's App Store) and Android (via Google Play) on January 15th, 2014. A desktop version may or may not materialize -- multi-touch makes this game more fun.

Screenshots

twisty passages tricky splits bird or rocket got the stars probably not going to win this time harder puzzle overworld, title screen overworld, bridge and locked levels

Video

Reviews/Awards

Troubleshooting

If you are having problems with the iOS or Android versions of Rainbow, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Common questions:

How do I reset my progress? Hold down the show-badges button (lower left in the world view), then hold down the button that appears in the lower right.

What do these badges mean? From left to right: hold down your finger, get all the stars, don't crash too many frequency bands.

History

Rainbow began life as a HTML5/javascript/webgl game (my first ever foray into Javascript+WebGL, in fact) made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare #25 ("You Are The Villain"). It was rated first place in the Innovation category and tied for 10th place in the Overall category. It has since been completely reimplemented in C++ and expanded with new mechanics.

However, if you'd like a taste of the core gameplay, you can still try the (old) prototype version online or download the (old) prototype version.

I also wrote a series of posts about the creation of said prototype. The first is here.