Azumanga Daioh Magical Pop

The year is 2002, Osaka was just voted 7th most popular anime heroine of the year. Her classmates Chiyo, Sakaki, and Yomi also make the top 100. Riding high on the news, you visit your local arcade and drop some yen into the arcade cabinet, ready to pop some bubbles. 

All the charm of Azumanga Daioh Puzzle Bobble, but from an alternate universe where Magical Drop was the most popular arcade puzzler...

Pick up matching color orbs and rearrange them into columns of three or more to pop them. Do so quickly an earn bonus points for each step in your combo. Trash pieces can only be removed by popping orbs adjacent to them.

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Inputs can be remapped in game via the Options menu. The defaults are listed below for both Keyboard and Controller.

KEYBOARD CONTROLS

• MOVE LEFT - A or Left Arrow
• MOVE RIGHT - D or Right Arrow
• GRAB ORBS - J or Up Arrow
  
• DROP ORBS - K or Down Arrow
• CALL LINE - L or Spacebar
• START - Enter

ARCADE STICK/PAD CONTROLS

• MOVE LEFT - D-Pad Left
• MOVE RIGHT - D-Pad Left
• GRAB ORBS - Cross (PS), A (Xbox), B (Nintendo)
• DROP ORBS - Circle (PS), B (Xbox), A (Nintendo)
• CALL LINE - Triangle (PS), Y (Xbox), X (Nintendo)
• START - Start (PS), Menu (Xbox), + (Nintendo)

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COPYRIGHT STUFF

I don't claim to own any of the licenses for the Azumanga Daioh characters, the show's music, or any assets reused from Azumanga Daioh Puzzle Bobble. Those belong to Kiyohiko Azuma, Taito, Moss, and Mediaworks.

This is a fan project made in Godot 4 as a means to improve my development skills. Thanks to Random Talking Brush from Spriters Resource who uploaded all the original game sprite, background, and SFX. I rebuilt the UI by hand based on reference videos.