Acid Drop v1.0

Liquid Acid Drop is a color-matching puzzle game where players guide falling tri-colored blocks into an 8×18 grid. Match 3 or more blocks of the same color horizontally, vertically, or diagonally to clear them and score points. The game features GPU-accelerated fragment shader visual effects, persistent high scores, and progressively increasing difficulty across three starting levels.

The game draws its inspiration from two classic titles: Acid Drop, an obscure but memorable Atari 2600 puzzle game released in 1992, and Sega's Columns (1990). Liquid Acid Drop reimagines the core mechanics of these retro gems with modern Vulkan-powered rendering, psychedelic real-time shader effects, and a vibrant color palette of 9 distinct block types.

Built entirely as a showcase for the libmx2 / MX2 Engine—a custom Vulkan-based 2D game framework—Liquid Acid Drop demonstrates the engine's sprite batching, text rendering, fragment shader pipeline, and swap chain management capabilities in a fully playable, complete game.