Auction Hall of the Mountain King

Compete with up to three other dwarven friends to snag the best loot in the king's auction hall!

How To Play:

• Set all active players to 'Dwarf' and any computer players desired to 'Computer'
• Select a class; some items will be worth more to certain dwarves.
• Set up the auction rules. A Drop Speed of zero means gems don't move until you move them.
• Start the auction!
• Move the falling gems with Left, Down, and Right.
• Push the gem stack up, adding more gems to the bottom, with G (or which ever button you selected on setup)
• Cycle through queued gems with O and X (controller face buttons).
• When four or more gems of the same color match with a falling gem they will clear and add value to your bid!
• Set up chain reactions of gems falling and clearing to get a big multiplier and leave your competition in the dust!
• When the round ends, the dwarf with the highest bid takes the prize;
• And when the final round is over, the dwarf with the most valuable loot wins!

Credits:

Made for the Portland Indie Game Squad 2025 June Summer Slow Jam!
Concept, art, code, and sfx by C. Wiggers
Additional art, design, and consultation by C. Andringa
Music by EC

Controllers -- Picotron has been a uncooperative regarding controllers so please note the following:

• Gamepads are required for each player (including player 1) in order to play multiplayer.
• Gamepads don't seem to work in browser; few buttons register at all, so it's recommended that you use one of the binaries provided instead.
• Make sure all controllers are connected BEFORE launching the game. USB hubs don't seem to be compatible on windows or mac.
• The mac binary seems to crash if more than two controllers are connected. (oof)
• There is an in-game setting for which button pushes the board up which can be set per player since controllers for players other than 1 did not seem to register shoulder button inputs.
• Hopefully Lexaloffle gets this ironed out soon bc its seriously bad wow.