Blaze

Blaze is a foundry arcade. You work the night shift at a small ironworks, and the furnace only burns what you feed it. HOW A SHIFT WORKS Pick one of five columns and the queued ember falls to the lowest free cell. Land five or more of the same face next to each other and they ignite: the cells burn away, everything above collapses into the gap and the empty row refills from the top. If the new grid pays again, the chain steps up — x1, x2, x3, x5 — and while a chain is running four connected faces are already enough to keep it alive. The chain runs until a settled grid burns nothing, and never past twelve linked steps. FUEL AND FAILURE Every drop costs one unit of fuel, and a shift starts with twenty. Fill the grid to the brim or run the tank dry and the shift ends in a burnout. Each furnace has a heat target; beat it and the shift pays a completion bonus, miss it and you bank only what you earned. FLASHOVER Burned cells raise the heat gauge. At 100 the furnace goes to flashover: five drops that cost no fuel, the chain multiplier carries between them, and a white-hot core is forced into every refill. It can retrigger once per shift. SPARKFLINT Three per shift. Tap any landed cell to ignite it together with its neighbours of the same face, no matter how small the group. Saving them for the right grid is most of the skill. THE FORGE Embers earned on shift buy four furnaces and four rigging upgrades — draft speed, an extra sparkflint, a bigger fuel line, a higher chain cap. Every one of them changes how the next shift actually plays. THE ALMANAC Nothing is hidden. The almanac prints the weight and value of all seven faces, the cluster rule, the chain ladder, the flashover trigger and a plain-language note on how the draw works. The numbers on that page are read straight out of the game's own tables. RECORDS Twelve career counters, five foundry ranks, twelve achievements and the log of your last twenty-five shifts.