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1. cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2023 23:46:02 JST cool_boy_mew
   Shot in the dark, but oh well
   
   I remember a French freeware gotten on a French developper's website like 15 years ago. Was probably linked to it from telecharger.com (probably still possible to find it there?)
   
   The game is some sort of water game and you have to use pieces to end up collecting as much water in the bucket as possible in the end. It was a, uh, action puzzle game because you had to put the pieces before/while the water is flowing. You had pieces like sponges to delay the water and such
   
   Pretty sure it's a clone of an existing game. The game had a freaking Mario Kart snes midi in it lol. The dev also made one of those same game where you click on similar tiles together to clear them
   
   Anyone knows?
   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2023 23:49:23 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @coolboymew I've played several flash games in this style…
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2023 23:50:11 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @lanodan yeah, pretty sure it's a clone of a known game. There's also a similar game published by Nintendo on Wiiware
     
     But otherwise I'd like to find this one. It wasn't flash, it was an exe game
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2023 23:52:16 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     @hj @lanodan I know but it didn't feel like a flash game. You usually know when it's flash and I'm pretty sure it wasn't flash. I'm pretty sure there was no game maker splash either
   • Proud owner of a potato sack :flag: (hj@shigusegubu.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2023 23:52:18 JST Proud owner of a potato sack :flag:

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @coolboymew @lanodan exe games can be flash too ykno
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2023 23:55:02 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:
     @icedquinn No, it's a 2D game, the water comes from the top and goes down
   • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta: (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2023 23:55:03 JST iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:

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     @coolboymew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetrix :blobmojiquestion:
   • Polychrome :meowtea: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 00:08:33 JST Polychrome :meowtea:

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     @coolboymew yeah that's definitely a clone, I had a similar game on my XT back in the 80's :blobsmilesweat2:
     
     I'm pretty sure that one was also a clone, probably of an arcade game.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 00:08:43 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Polychrome :meowtea:
     @Polychrome yeah I don't know what's the original for this one
   • Desert_0asis (desert_0asis@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 00:12:16 JST Desert_0asis

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     @coolboymew Take a look on caiman.us/ it's a treasure trove of freeware games. It might be on there
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 00:12:35 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Desert_0asis
     @Desert_0asis thanks, forgot about caiman
     
     But searching by site with keyword water, no luck so far
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 00:16:58 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Polychrome :meowtea:
     @Polychrome but man, chasing random freeware/shareware from the 90s/00s is total hell, lots of it is gone and lots, lots of noises
     
     It being French and on a random personal website just makes it even less likely to find it ever again
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 00:23:19 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Polychrome :meowtea:
     @Polychrome The thing is that I have no idea what I'm looking for in the first place. No actual name, no website, no creator, can't search by "clone of x game" because I have no idea if it's a clone or not and searching "water game freeware" is a nightmare on new search engine, it absolutely refuses to give me actual pages about software, so instead I get SEO hell about IRL water games in either English or French
     
     Telecharger.com doesn't seem to have it when I google a site google search. I know they revamped their download pages at some point so it's less big than it used to be and apparently the site is not archivable either
   • Polychrome :meowtea: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 00:23:20 JST Polychrome :meowtea:

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     @coolboymew not on the archive I guess?
   • Ame (americanchampion@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 01:19:56 JST Ame

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     • Polychrome :meowtea:
     @coolboymew @Polychrome Speaking realistically, there are hundreds of iterations on that game, and middling games disappear off the internet all the time. I've even seen very unique games from my childhood disappear forever. It's probably gone.
     
     
     In any case, the name of the genre is Pipe Mania.
     
     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_Mania
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 01:20:26 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Polychrome :meowtea:
     • Ame
     @AmericanChampion @Polychrome Nah, it's was definitively not a pipe dream/pipe mania kinda game
     
     but yes, probably gone
   • Ame (americanchampion@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 11:22:00 JST Ame

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     • Polychrome :meowtea:
     @coolboymew @Polychrome Not a pipe dream clone? Do you have a vague sketch of what the gameplay looked like?
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 11:22:23 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Polychrome :meowtea:
     • Ame
     @AmericanChampion @Polychrome not a pipe dream clone
     
     No sketch, too vague, sorry. I can't draw well at all anyways
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 21:11:48 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Polychrome :meowtea:
     • Ame
     @AmericanChampion @Polychrome
     
     Here's more details
     
     "It's definitively not a pipe mania/pipe dream clone, that's too tile based and I would know. It's more of an open field game, think maybe like the incredible machine where there's a stage and you put parts to complete the puzzle, except this time it's helping water flow correctly in to the end bucket and you're fighting against the already flowing water
     
     Basically, you have a play field with a level with a bunch of parts (limited by levels) andplay field with elements that's already there and you have to put limited parts to help the water flow where you want it to, so that it doesn't just fall into the void. It's a single screen game, no scrolling I think. The part are limited by level and the part you can use that I remember the most is sponges that would stop the water for a small amount of time. The water starts in a bucket in the top and flows downward while you put the parts. Sometimes there's sponges already at the starting bucket to give you some time to put some parts first. Sometimes the water gets split in 2 and etc. The end goal is collecting as much water in the end bucket and you need a certain % in it to "pass" the level, maybe. I don't remember if you had lives or not and if you were free to select any stages
     
     I remember the game had a mario kart snes midi, I think it was this song specifically, there possibly was another
     
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lchPNCikNdk
     
     I'm pretty sure I found it on the author's website, and the website was French. The author had at least another freeware that was a "same game" clone where you click on a color tile to clear all the same colored tile touching it
     
     I have no idea if the game was a clone of something already existing, because I never quite found anything else exactly like it"
   • Ame (americanchampion@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Apr-2023 21:11:49 JST Ame

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     • Polychrome :meowtea:
     @coolboymew @Polychrome Fair. Can you elaborate on how it isn't a pipe dream clone? I think that's what everyone's stuck on, so pointing out the major difference might get you somewhere.