How to play
- The volcano above the village has woken up and is lobbing glowing lava bombs at the rooftops. You run the three water towers. Aim, and a tower lobs a water shell that bursts into a cloud of steam right where you aimed. A lava bomb that drifts into steam is quenched. Keep the roofs whole through each eruption.
- With a mouse, move over the playfield and click: the nearest tower with water fires at the crosshair. With a keyboard, the arrow keys move the crosshair (it speeds up while you hold a key), Z, X, and C fire the left, center, and right tower, and Space fires the nearest one. On a phone or tablet, tap the sky and the nearest tower answers at the spot you tapped. There are no buttons to find, and a phone held sideways gives you a bigger sky.
- Each tower holds 10 shells per eruption and can have 3 in the air at once. The center tower throws faster than the two on the hills. A lava bomb that lands on a tower knocks it out until the next eruption, and its water is lost.
- Steam swells for under half a second, holds for a moment, and then thins out. Anything that falls into it is quenched, so lead a falling bomb and burst the steam in its path. From the second eruption, about one bomb in four bursts in mid-air into two or three fragments, each aimed at a different target. Ash clouds drift across the sky and drop bombs as they go. From the fifth eruption, whirling cinders sidestep steam that is close ahead, so burst right on top of one.
- A lava bomb or fragment is worth 25, an ash cloud 100, and a cinder 125, multiplied by the eruption bonus: 1× for the first two eruptions, 2× for the next two, and so on up to 6×. After each eruption you get 100 times the bonus for every cottage still standing and 5 times the bonus for every unused shell. Every 10,000 points rebuilds one lost cottage at the next count-up, and the credit is saved if nothing is lost.
- The game ends when the last cottage burns. The towers do not count, and the village will rebuild. Press P or Esc to pause, M to mute, and Enter to start.
Your best score is kept on this device.