Kickle is a remake of the game Kickle Cubicle by Irem for the NES.
used only as placeholders for this early version. I hope to enlist an
artist soon to get some original graphics. The level designs are also
taken from Kickle Cubicle. Again, these are placeholders.
4 PLAYING
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You control Kickle, a snowman. On each level, you’ve got to collect all the
red bags for some reason or another. After all the bags are collected, you
move on to the next level. This version has 17 levels.
The problem is that the bags, and much of the areas of the levels, are
separated from each other by water.
But luckily, Kickle has two powers at his disposal.
He can freeze (most) baddies with his ice breath. One particular baddie,
a round, blue one which you encounter from the first level, turns into an
ice cube when frozen. Kickle can kick these ice cubes around by standing
next to the cube and breathing again. When a cube hits the water, it
becomes new ice. Thus, you can build bridges to new areas by freezing these
blue baddies and then kicking them into the water.
Kickle can also build an ice pillar. The main point of these pillars is to
stop a kicked ice cube. You can build a pillar on the same row or column
as an ice cube, then kick the cube into the pillar. You can then kick the
cube in a different direction. Using pillars you can also protect Kickle from
baddies. Kickle can only build pillars on ice tiles.
Kickle can freeze most other types of baddies as well, but when they are
kicked, they shatter.
When you move Kickle from one tile to another, Kickle will balk — return to
the tile from which he was moving — if you take your finger off the
movement key very quickly after starting the move. You can use balking to
change Kickle’s direction without moving from the current tile.
Alternatively, you can use the “spin” button to keep Kickle absolutely
stationary while changing direction.
