Slidematch

The current pretense is that you're a lab worker sequencing a pathogen. The board is your microscope slide.

Slidematch is a match-three with one twist: you don't swap tiles, you slide entire rows and columns. Clear 3+ connected microbes of the same strain. An shape goes, but no diagonals. Thenwatch the tiles clear, create cascades and collapse the board above them.

There's no clock. There's something worse: infection. Left alone, healthy tiles rot into permanent infection, and infection spreads. It never clears. It never pauses. Your only defense is speed and the sequence.

The goal is to identify the genome, an ordered strand of strains you clear one at a time. Chain a big enough cascade and you can roll straight through multiple genome entries in a single move.

Slidematch is a work in progress, built solo and tuned against real playtest data rather than gut feel. Follow along! The devlogs cover what worked, what got cut and why.