Awarded gamesAmateur Division
Honorable MentionHANARENKA
General Description
| Title | HANARENKA |
|---|---|
| Platform | PC |
| School | HAL Nagoya College of Technology & Design |
| Winner's name | TONCHINKAN TONCHINKAN KOUMINKAN |
Reason
Congratulations on winning the award!
For the message of “exhilaration of successive explosion” and “beauty of the fireworks”, the game is simple to require minimum explanation and level design and added gimmicks make the player look forward to the next stage.
The particularity of the creator about the feel of the game who played and adjusted the game repetitively to every details from the tempo to ease of playing has realized the high quality at the level having nothing worthy of special mention in a good meaning; I felt that the content in which the player can be absorbed is created with particularity about all details.
The concept “particularity” means, in other words, that anything is possible. It was difficult to select award winners since what to appraise depends on the person. I perceived the particularity in the game design where I could simply feel good play feeling of HANARENKA, beauty of the fireworks and exhilaration of successive explosion as well as elaboration in details supporting the game design.
The fireworks are beautiful and successive explosion is exhilarating as a matter of course; everything required to express what the creator want to express is there in the game.
Minoru Yoneyama, Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
Work Introduction
This is a puzzle game to make fireworks explode successively to help colleagues who have been deprived of the motivation by a doctor who is jealous of “fireworks” that make people happy.
This game is created with particularity about “pleasure of successive explosion”.
The player ignites fireworks moving the master who is a detonator.
A stage is cleared if you succeed to explode all surrounding fireworks successively with the sparks that spread in the night sky.
To determine where and at which timing to explode the detonator master is the key to win the game.
Connect the chain of explosion making good use of properties of various fireworks such as crackers that emit sparks only in a direction and willow fireworks that continue to emit sparks for prolonged time.
As you proceed with stages, blocks appear to prevent sparks from spreading. Furthermore, “Nushi firework” etc. that requires special succession such as three times of ignition detonation or simultaneous detonation from two places comes on stage. To clear such a stage, higher strategy is required.
The game creator is also particular about the “beauty of the fireworks”; the afterglow that sparks gradually extinct after explosion of the fireworks are realistically expressed to enable us to experience the sense of accomplishment of solving a puzzle game and exhilaration of watching the fireworks at the same time.
