Avoid the Ich is a Match 3 style game with fish where some fish are infected with Ichthyophthirius multifiliis and infect other fish around them if the uninfected fish is not matched or moved away soon enough.

Volumes can be adjusted in the settings menu (Escape to open if you are in a level). You can control the game with mouse or keyboard, arrow keys to move a selector, space to select a fish, H to get a hint (may be hard to see, uses the keyboard select reticle).

Web player was a late addition, let me know if something still seems off with it, or try the Windows download.

Judges: please use the Windows version, it was much more thoroughly tested :)

This was the developer's first game ever developed and was made for the Pirate Software Game Jam 14.

Download

Download
Avoid_the_Ich_Windows.zip 29 MB
Download
Avoid the Ich Design Document - Pirate Software Game Jam 14.pdf 106 kB

Install instructions

Unzip the Avoid_the_Ich.zip file to a folder on your hard drive and run the "Avoid the Ich.exe" file.

To completely remove the game, delete the unzipped files and the files in your AppData folder, likely under:
C:\Users\<your_username>\AppData\Roaming\Godot\app_userdata\Avoid the Ich

If the save files are not in the location on your machine, you can search for the three settings files listed below and they should be found in a folder with some additional subfolders for cached files:

  • avoid_the_ich_controls.dat
  • avoid_the_ich_highscore.dat
  • avoid_the_ich_settings.ini

If you are still unable to find these, take comfort in knowing that the entire set of files is usually under 2 megabytes.

Thanks for trying the game!

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