Linkup
Linkup
✨Some things just belong together ✨
A match-pair puzzle about connections.
Drag to link a pair — key 🔑 and lock 🔒, glove 🥊 and hand ✋, needle 🪡 and yarn 🧶 and the line sweeps the board clean.
Chain matches against a ticking timer ⏱️ to climb a combo multiplier 🔥. Long swipes (7+ cells) leave a bomb 💣 behind; clearing one triggers a plus-shaped ➕ chain reaction that sweeps a full row and column, sometimes setting off more bombs in turn. The grid grows as you go, with new pairs unlocking at milestones.
Quick to learn 🧠, easy to lose ten minutes to.
🖱️/👆Controls: Click/tap and drag to connect a pair. That's it.
🎮 Made for the GameDev.tv Game Jam 2026 — theme: Connections.
Credits
👤 A solo game jam entry by pirateking2502.
🎨 Icons — game-icons.net, used under CC-BY 3.0. Artists: Lorc, Delapouite, and Caro Asercion.
🔤 Fonts — Space Mono (Colophon Foundry, SIL Open Font License 1.1) and Chains (Vladimir Nikolic, free for any use).
🎵 Audio
- Kenney Interface Sounds — Kenney, CC0
- "Chill lofi inspired" (music) — omfgdude, CC0
- "Film special effects wow" — DRAGON-STUDIO via Pixabay, Pixabay Content License
🛠️ Built with — Unity and the Better Minimal WebGL Template by Sean (seleb).
Full per-icon attribution is in the in-game Credits screen.
Comments
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Wow, this game is very fun! Very satisfying to make big connections, and the bombs are a nice touch. Some of the icon colors start to blend together after a while, but that's part of the challenge. Good job!
Really nice game. Chill vibes. Very easy to undertand. Well done! The only thing I still don't know yet, which I might come back and try is the bombs?
All in all great job! WOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks! The bombs clear full row and column. You can trigger bomb when it’s cleared by another match such as :key: — :bomb: — :lock:.