Game of Drones

Game of Drones is a Futurama puzzle  developed by German-based video-game developer  and the second Futurama video game, after 2003's self-titled console game. It was announced on 8 July 2015. The title was revealed on 23 November 2015.

Gameplay
The app is a puzzle game that plays in the same way as , where drones (coloured icons) on a tiled board must be matched via color by four or more to remove them from the screen. Special super drones can appear that give the player an advantage, such as the ability to destroy an entire row of drones, or to explode all of the drones in a specific radius. Each character also has a special ability that is charged up and can be used to clear the board of many drones. Later levels include challenges such as boxes that must be destroyed by removing drones next to them, and pizza boxes that must reach the bottom of the screen. Levels are completed when the player removes a certain number of specific drones, destroys all the boxes onscreen, succeeds in getting all of the pizza boxes to the bottom of the screen or a combination of the three.

Players are only given a certain number of moves per level. If they run out of moves, they must either give up and lose a life or use in-game currency to gain a few more moves and keep trying. A maximum of 5 lives are permitted at once, and it takes 30 minutes to regain a single life. A free life can be quickly gained by watching a 30-second-long ad.

Boosters are also eventually made available to the player, which must be bought using in-game currency. In-game currency can be purchased using real world money. An alternate way of gaining in-game currency is by spinning the Wheel of Robots (which requires the player to watch a 30-second-long ad), which can reward the player between 1 to 5 units of currency. Other bonuses include unlimited lives for either 5, 10 or 15 minutes. The wheel can only be spun once every 10 minutes.

Plot
The game's story is told through a series of interactive comic book pages, which are unlocked by progressing further into the game.

In 3015 at the Planet Express headquarters, Professor Farnsworth reveals to the crew that he has invented delivery drones due to negative customer feedback. The professor then teaches them how to deliver the drones, which requires matching them up via colour (this is because they "tend to wander off unless they're in a group"), then sends them on a delivery to Luna Park. Meanwhile, Mom spots the drones and becomes suspicious, so she send out a MomCorp spy drone to investigate.

After the crew defeats the spy drone, Mom decides to initiate "Operation Unfair Competition", and sends out an army of box-carrying drones that work under a new program known as "", which comes with "free shipping that you pay for". Realising that this could put Planet Express out-of-business, the professor decides that they'll compete by including food-grade pizzas with their deliveries. Whilst on the moon, the crew stop at the hydroponic farm at the request of Bender, who quickly tries to come up with an excuse for why he wants to go there. Once at the farm, Bender purchases illegal moon ferrets from the hydroponic farmer.

After making drone deliveries across the moon, the crew must battle Zapp Brannigan. Upon defeat, Zapp boards the Planet Express ship (whilst Bender desperately tries to hide his moon ferrets) and requests that they deliver him to the DOOP headquarters. He eventually reveals to the crew that he believes the headquarters have been taken over by Neutrals.

To be completed...

Trivia

 * The game features its own built-in Twitcher page, which lets the player view "twits" from characters in the show.
 * The game's title is a reference to the series Game of Thrones.
 * Drones were previously referenced in The Beast with a Billion Backs and "Fun on a Bun".
 * In The Beast with a Billion Backs, asks if  can't send a ic drone into the anomaly.
 * In "Fun on a Bun", controls "a revolutionary  of unmanned drones" (with men in them).
 * In "Simpsorama", which aired roughly eight months before the game's announcement,, while in 2014, tells , , and Bender to find out why people in this time period would ever pay for.
 * The drone prototypes were made using part of Fry's brain.
 * According to the hydroponic farmer, cuteness is a crime on the moon.

Twitcher

 * The following usernames are used by the show's characters, businesses and products on the game's Twitcher app:
 * Fry - @pfry837902
 * Leela - @turangaleela
 * Bender - @IPFreely
 * Professor Farnsworth - @proff
 * Amy - @TheRightWong
 * Zoidberg - @FishLiver
 * Zapp - @gladiator45
 * Cubert - @karthagthebold
 * Hydroponic farmer - @MFProduce
 * Slurm - @Slurm
 * MomCorp - @MomCorp
 * Fishy Joe's - @FishyJoeHimself
 * Compulseez - @Compulseez

Levels
The game's levels are broken into different locations taken from the show. The following locations are used in this order:


 * New New York
 * Moon
 * DOOP HQ
 * Mars Vegas
 * Mutant Sewers
 * Robot Hell
 * Central Bureaucracy
 * Mars University
 * Decapod 10
 * Omicron Persei 8
 * Near-Death Star

Boosters
Boosters that aid the player are eventually made available. There are 2 types of boosters, some that are activated before starting a level and some that can be activated during a level.


 * Pre-game boosters:
 * Fishy Meal - Begins a level with one each of a Line, Bomb, and Prism Super Drone.
 * Super Slurm - Begins the level with a fully charged character power.
 * Compulseez - Organizes Drones by color at the start of the level.


 * In-game boosters:
 * Doomba - Automatically cleans and vaporizes 4 areas of the board, targeting level objectives.
 * Special Doomlivery - Immediately places 5 Line Drones on the board for maximum doom convenience.
 * Spheroboom - Brings localized doom to a tiny, hexagonal area of space.