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Glow Drop

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Fun1333.65
Audio2253.27
Overall2893.47
Theme4823.65
Graphics5113.15
Innovation5533.13
Mood6002.89
Humor7852.16

Comments

kraln 2014-12-08 03:05

Dangerously addictive. I could definitely see myself dropping this on my phone and playing from time to time. It seemed like there was a point where I couldn't recover my losses, though... that was a bit frustrating.

snoutup 2014-12-08 03:10

Sweet game! Sound effects and more visual feedback would make this a lovely mobile time-waster!

benjim 2014-12-08 03:22

I like the special drops. Overall good game.

mortl8324 2014-12-08 10:09

I wasn't pulled in at first, but the more I played the more I realised the subtle mechanics. The game is surprisingly balanced quite well (no pun intended).

gokuhd 2014-12-08 11:19

This is a great game, interesting concept, simple and engaging. Please release a version for Android ;)

triplevisiongames 2014-12-08 11:33

Really cool simple game, had lots of fun with it! Could definitely see myself playing this for hours on the mobile, I got an achy finger from clicking too much ;)

blue-thumbs-gaming 2014-12-08 12:08

Nice game! Only complaint is that I had to reduce my browser view to 65% to fit the game in screen.

ithildin 2014-12-08 12:10

Great idea! It's simple, but it works perfectly. And I like the music track as well, it sticks in your mind (although it's short, so it potentially could become repetitive if you play for a long time).

Nice work!

furrikira 2014-12-08 15:54

This can be highly addicting really if were to be a mobile game. Oh my god you should go do that! So much potential here~

okkolobr 2014-12-08 15:57

Nice one here ! Well done !

catonmars 2014-12-08 18:20

Nice and simple gameplay! Also the music is good. Nice work!

jpdev 2014-12-08 20:30

33581 .. became really stressfull at the end there :)
I like it, for a replay I would like to be able to turn the music off.

ryguydavis 2014-12-08 20:47

Love the idea. Definitely a concept I could see people playing on their phones. I'm not really drawn to the visual style, but that might just be a preference thing.

snemanden 2014-12-08 22:23

Yeah: another one of those games that should come with an "ADDICTIVE"-warning ;). Really challenging, but satisfying when you match lots of drops. Also, the background-music was really well done.

sheigeno 2014-12-08 23:34

...woow too many ball on my screen.. xD

.nice game

derosa 2014-12-09 00:08

As others said, you should totally take this to mobile. A nice concept, well balanced and fun to play. Now, go and do it!

lonelytimelord 2014-12-09 00:40

Really awesome. Fast paced, I can see this making a really fun mobile game :D

thatwhichis 2014-12-09 04:47

16290! Solid mechanics

empyrealhell 2014-12-09 07:00

A simple but well-built game. I'm also a sucker for technical interpretations of the theme, and I dig the single-game-screen idea. The graphics were good, the movement of the orbs felt satisfying, and the white orbs were interesting to use. You can definitely feel the polish, which helps overcome the relatively simple mechanics.

voider 2014-12-09 14:36

Looked easy at first glance, but the difficulty progression is very good!

drludos 2014-12-09 17:27

Very entertaining game - simple to understand, but very funny to play with all these physics colored shape! I love it. The music is excellent too, what did you use to compose it?

jupiter_hadley 2014-12-09 17:51

Simple game, very addictive! I Included it in part 3 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/81u-vDEfxwU

ketura 2014-12-09 21:31

This is great, probably better with touch screen controls than a mouse, but the idea is solid. I would add some sort of visual element to make it more obvious what spheres are connected, like two different shades of each color for "connected" and "not connected" to take out the guesswork.

adventureislands 2014-12-09 21:33

Nice work! Simple to pick up and play. This could make for a great mobile game.

off 2014-12-09 21:47

Even better than Bejewled and Tetris, the only tricky aspect is that is hard to be sure sometimes if circle touch each other but it works really well.
Direct on my mobile phone for travel! ;)

dlowe 2014-12-09 21:58

Thanks for the game :)

beerman 2014-12-09 22:31

Very nice. Simple but compelling, like crazy multi-coloured bubblewrap :)

belowzerogames 2014-12-10 00:24

Good Job on your game :)

mrexcessive 2014-12-10 07:24

Hi there. Excellent game. Agree with other posters, definitely addictive. Love the gentle glow and sounds. Great job!

mechabit 2014-12-10 12:42

cool game

local-minimum 2014-12-10 19:37

Nice execution of classic bejeweled type game. I think all parts, music, graphics and game play came together nicely.

I, of course, got really stressed quite soon and never obtained any great score, but one thing (I think) I noticed was that the balls seemed more and more reluctant to register my clicks the harder the game got. I don't know if that was by design, if it was just my stress speaking or some quirk of having more balls in play. If it was meant to get harder, maybe visually display the shrinking hit area on the balls.

Also, maybe due stress, I never figured you if the magic balls were surprise balls that you couldn't know what they'd produce or if there was some way of being smart about them. If the latter, maybe have a ? on them or something...

rainshapes 2014-12-11 17:25

Great variation on the matching formula!

slothmachine 2014-12-11 18:32

Really fun and challenging! I see this would work well on tablet. Great job!

themeorch 2014-12-12 00:00

Cool twist on the match-3 genre. My clicks occasionally didn't seem to register. If that could get ironed out, this would work nicely on mobile.

pjimmy 2014-12-12 15:31

very original tetris-type game, very good for touch devices, well done

nesis 2014-12-14 14:27

I liked the colour palette and postprocessing applied to the graphics, and the music especially was done well. I can see people playing this compulsively like they do other games like it. A unique hook could perhaps be playing more with the physics of it, allowing the player to shuffle the positions of the circles.

rnlf 2014-12-14 20:14

Pretty cool take on this quite old genre. I like the way physics were added to the gameplay. The music is awesome too!

6downstudios 2014-12-15 06:11

Nifty and lotsa fun! The white drops are great, especially the randomizer, can turn the game around real fast!

guldlock 2014-12-17 21:05

I liked this game, felt like it could be addictive! :D

sh1rogane 2014-12-21 12:56

Fun and addictive game. Good and fitting music. Managed to get to lvl 18.

dream-of-sleeping 2014-12-21 16:39

I really liked the graphics and overall presentation. It was very polished, so well done! I didn't enjoy the gameplay. I've just played far too many of these games recently and just found it too unoriginal. I liked the in game music, but I wasn't a fan of the menu screen music.

ruerob 2014-12-21 19:50

Very fun to play and addictive little game, but at the later levels I just clicked rapidly on the screen without aiming. But maybe with a little practice I will be better. Very good. Thank you for your game.

tomvert 2014-12-21 20:11

That was a lot of fun !

ulydev 2014-12-24 16:22

Awesome !

gameproducer 2014-12-28 21:03

I started wondering if this game would be less action and more tactical if new balls would drop only after you click once. Now I felt I could just try fast-click some cluster of same colored spheres and couldnt see if there's some better strategy (than to become fastr clicker or get a better mouse :).

I would have liked if spheres that are close to each other would get more easier selected, or perhaps some indicator on mouseover (hard to see how that could work on android).

I do think this was a nice twist on match-3 genre. Works pretty well already.

One additional thing to consider: Why spheres? Why not other shapes?

pht59x 2014-12-29 20:00

Brilliant stuff !