Bad Ice-Cream 3

Bad Ice-Cream 3 is the third game in the Bad Ice-Cream series. It was released on December 20 2013 and was confirmed to be in development in Nitrome's Blog post on December 11 2013.

Controls
Player one Player two Player three Player four
 * updownleftright - Move
 * Space - Action
 * WASD - Move
 * Q - Action
 * Nitrome Touchy controls
 * Nitrome Touchy controls

Gameplay
The objective of every level of Bad Ice-Cream 3 is the same as that of its past two games - collect all fruits on the screen while avoiding various enemies.

Level 1

 * Enemies:


 * 1 udder cow
 * Fruits:


 * 16 lemons
 * 14 oranges

Level 2

 * Enemies:


 * 1 starfish
 * Fruits:


 * 8 bananas
 * 4 lemons
 * 14 oranges
 * 13 watermelons

Level 3

 * Enemies:


 * 8 cactus monsters
 * Fruits:


 * 6 grapes
 * 6 kiwis
 * 12 lemons
 * 24 watermelons

Level 4

 * Enemies:


 * 1 sandworm
 * Fruits:


 * 4 pomegranates
 * 14 grapes
 * 4 lemons
 * 2 pineapples

Level 5

 * Enemies:


 * 20 peppermints
 * Fruits:


 * 8 green apples
 * 8 peaches
 * 8 bananas
 * 4 kiwis

Level 6

 * Enemies:


 * 1 blue cow
 * 4 green trolls
 * Fruits:


 * 12 lemons
 * 8 oranges
 * 24 watermelons

Level 12

 * Enemies:


 * Two Yellow squids
 * Fruits:

This level contains an unreleased avatar which can be collected (see glitches section of the article).
 * Spike fruit

Level 41
This is an extra level, which can be accessed only by beating level 40. It is filled with lots of Copycats and it is also the only level where Avocados appears.

Enemies

 * Cactus monsters - Cactus monsters sleep together like a wall, then wake up periodically and move. While moving, they are angry and dangerous to the ice cream characters.
 * Sandworms - The sandworm is able to burry under the ground traveling past any ice blocks in its way, and moves quickly also. Where the sandworm moves is indicates by raised ground and tiles bumped into the air.
 * Boots (Bad Ice-Cream) - Boots acts like ducks, but they take longer to jump, but they have greater jump, than ducks. They can also smash ice, if they land on it.
 * Copycat - Copycat can take a form of player and moves to same direction as player.
 * Udder cows - Look like small cows with large udders that can be used to smash ice.
 * Starfish (Bad Ice-Cream) - Star-shaped enemy that can spin to smash one ice block and will make snow angels occasionally in order to create more monsters.
 * Ice starfish - Star-shaped enemy created by Starfish and Red Starfish when they make snow angels
 * Red starfish - Red star-shaped enemy that can spin to smash several ice blocks in a row and will make snow angels occasionally in order to create more monsters.
 * Peppermints - a group of circle shaped candies, who has certain pattern, which they follow (every peppermint has, in some stages, certain pattern they follow)
 * Peppermints with bombs - Peppermints with bombs carries a bomb, which can destroy flying saucers, if it hits the bomb.

Interactive objects

 * Pipes - Allows the player to cross to the other side of the level
 * Infected tiles - If the player makes shoots ice onto an infected tile, in a few seconds the ice tiles into infected blocks. Infected blocks will be destroyed one by one, even though there is a row of ice blocks
 * Portals - Transports the player between portals

Previews
An unusually large number of previews were released for this game. This is most likely due to the fact that Nitrome was during that time making a blog post each day.

December 12 2013
On December 12 2013, Nitrome announced the game, as well as some information about it and some preview images. They stated that the game would take place in a desert setting and involve alien ice creams. The menu was released as a preview image as well as an image showing the transition from the sketch of the menu to the actual one.

December 13 2013
On December 13 2013, Nitrome announced one of the enemies in the upcoming game, the cactus monster. They also released information and preview image of the enemy. Cactus monsters were said to sleep together like a wall, then wake up periodically and move. While moving, they are angry and dangerous to the ice cream characters.

December 15th 2013
On December 15th, 2013, Nitrome announced in their blog post that a new female ice cream character would be added, licorice, along with another new character.

December 17th 2013
On December 17th, 2013, Nitrome announced in their blog post that a new ice cream character would be added, smokey bacon.

December 18th 2013
Nitrome announced a new enemy to be released with Bad Ice-Cream 3, the sandworm. It will be able to bury under some walls and in the dirt.

December 19th 2013
Nitrome announced four new fruits to be added to Bad Ice-Cream 3. The names of these fruits and their actions were not specified.

December 20th 2013
Nitrome released the blog post announcing that the game was out, along with a link in the post to play the game (which did not work, and instead sent the player to the Games page). This was a mistake, because one of the staff accidentally posted it to the blog while getting the game ready. Nitrome removed the blog post shortly after, but then re-posted it (along with the user comments) again when the game was actually ready.

Level 10 unreleased avatar
Level 10 contains an unreleased avatar which can be collected by going behind the sign on level 10, the one that reads "WELCOME to Fabulous DAIRY DESSERT". Upon going behind the sign, they will unlock the avatar, however, because it has not yet been released, the player can only use the avatar by inputting http://www.nitrome.com/profile/avatar/index.php?page=1&a_id=95 into the player's address bar.

Score menu glitch
Sometimes, if the player dies and presses the "back to menu" button, the submit score menu will appear.

Death sound glitch
If the player dies while a sound is playing (like the blue squid attack sound), the sound will be played all over again. This is most easily done in the level 7.

Beta elements
The menu for the game was partially changed during development; the partially coloured image of the menu, on the right side, contains a large object, which looks like a cluster of mountains. However, along with looking mostly like a mountain, the middle mountain looks like some creature with snow on its head, eyes and a small mouth visible. This mountain was removed from the final menu, and replaced with a considerably smaller mountain.