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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness298
Innovation2573.57
Humor3892.74
Overall5873.17
Theme5923.58
Fun5983.05
Audio6182.59
Graphics7182.82
Mood8142.63

Comments

shrapx 2014-12-08 02:38

this put a smile on my face as soon as i saw the gif, its quite hard, and pleasing when i find matches that i can push into place

elrobo 2014-12-08 03:02

Cool concept. Took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize I had to wait for the blocks to get to my side. Probably tried jumping that gap a good half dozen times. Could probably get rid of the middle safe zone and just start the blocks from the left.

drludos 2014-12-08 03:07

Very nice little game. I enjoyed it for a few minutes, avoiding the block is kinda hard :)! My high score is 17 :p

I really like the art style, did you use some kind of filter to make the gfx looks "blurry" yet precise at the same time?

demtool5 2014-12-08 03:34

really fun and hard! :/

andrea 2014-12-08 03:50

Love it! Can't get far though, I keep getting hit in the head :D

fanttum 2014-12-08 04:10

Crazy hard, but a cool idea.

jrap 2014-12-08 04:39

I love the colors here

karlipoppins 2014-12-08 05:19

Took me a little while to get the grisp of it but I had a good laugh playing it with my wife. She hated the falling tetris blocks :) Great job :)

mrsun 2014-12-08 05:21

Very innovative. At this point, the real gameplay elements haven't really emerged yet. But I think this could be a really interesting puzzle / action game if given more time.

sepharoth213 2014-12-08 05:49

Clever gameplay hook. Not too deep, but entertaining and has a nice amount of polish. Good job!

ian-morrison 2014-12-08 05:55

Interesting concept!

snuux 2014-12-08 07:55

Simple graphic and gameplay! I like this! Thanks!)

jarry 2014-12-08 08:23

Good concept, and nice game. A bit hard but i think it's because i'm bad ><

43iscoding 2014-12-08 08:46

Simple yet interesting! Looks complete. Very well designed overall :)

tagliatl 2014-12-08 10:23

Haha I love it, this is so random :D

lisac 2014-12-08 10:50

Really fun and challenging, great idea.

greenyuk 2014-12-08 12:40

Cool idea but i think somewhat flawed. When you make a match the block disappears so you fall to the spikes. I couldn't figure out how to not die! Certainly has promise though.

maurogik 2014-12-08 13:19

Tetris platformer ? Hell yeah ! It's a bit too hard for me but great concept & game !

zanenga 2014-12-08 14:06

Very interesting! I like it!

woodecker 2014-12-08 14:47

Fun to play, but confusing at the beginning.

allanolivei 2014-12-08 15:53

I liked the idea and was very fun. But the sensitivity of the character control is strange and could permiter control with wasd.

wevel 2014-12-08 17:50

Nice little game.

domicuc 2014-12-08 19:35

LOVE VISUAL STYLE !:) also check my project mate.. if you like tower defense weird games x)

snemanden 2014-12-08 19:39

I like your concept :). The game is quite hard though, and I feel like the characters contribution is small (the blocks often match by coincidence if you do nothing).

esaucm98 2014-12-08 19:39

Nice game! reminds me VVVVVV, i like the 8-bit art style. Best score: 19

tonbery 2014-12-08 19:42

oh no! I can not stop playing o_o

dorkster 2014-12-08 19:44

Difficult, but great concept.

taaboo 2014-12-08 19:52

Haha laughed my ass off trying to stay on the platforms when they lined up in color.

foolmoron 2014-12-08 19:56

Controls are a bit unwieldy, but it's fun and unique overall!

kk 2014-12-08 20:01

I always jump and got hit by those brick

tonbery 2014-12-08 20:03

my best 17/17 :(

job_ 2014-12-08 20:36

It looks so easy, but it's so hard! D:>
Really cool concept. Well executed. Awesome.

dream-of-sleeping 2014-12-08 20:50

This is pretty fun. It's almost got me hooked. And i think with a few alterations I would really like it.

I found waiting for blocks to reach me before I could start annoying. It took too long and as I was dying so often I felt like half the time playing was just waiting.

I think it would be good if I could pick up the blocks and carry them above my head and throw them. At the moment it just seemed like luck when I got one.

huruey 2014-12-08 21:27

This was really fun! Gonna play some more :)

po8rewq 2014-12-08 21:37

Really fun :)

unnamed1334 2014-12-08 21:53

The randomness gets annoying at some points. Other then that I had fun playing it. I got a highscore of 27.

bcole99 2014-12-08 21:55

If anyone is interested, I put together a quick postmortem: http://ludumdare.com/compo/2014/12/08/chamber-postmortem/

cinnamonmelonpig 2014-12-08 22:22

Great idea, I think you could make the game even better by removing some of the what to me appeared as randomness.

dallonf 2014-12-09 01:28

I really like this idea! In practice, it's a bit too random; I think I maybe got two intentional matches out of the few minutes I played. Most games I started, I got crushed by the block over the left safe zone because the blocks on the spikes matched. It's also really hard to push the blocks around; maybe the game could have used a pick-up/carry mechanic?

This idea could really go somewhere! Just needs a bit more to it.

ViliX 2014-12-09 15:40

It's very hard (or I suck)! With more animation & polishing, this could be a VERY solid game :) It's an awesome entry, though :)

homletmoo 2014-12-09 19:41

Very fun and difficult, and a nice graphics style too. I don't like the way you have to wait at the start for the blocks to sweep across; I think it would be better to have the blocks come from random positions.

ryannielson 2014-12-09 19:44

Great game, I love the interesting mix of precision platforming and problem solving. The graphics and sound are great as well. Simple, put the whole package comes together well.

The only thing I would improve would be to make the controls a bit more tight, less floaty.

hypnoticbytes 2014-12-09 20:20

Nice and simple game. Very funny and polished.

hexagore 2014-12-09 21:28

Took me a little while to understand the mechanic but after that it was quite addictive. Weirdest tetris clone I've ever seen :)

randomdragoon 2014-12-09 22:36

I think it would have been nice if the game starts off with a row of blocks already fallen down, because you can't really start taking actions until that point anyway.

hotboxgames 2014-12-09 23:43

Neat concept!

Found it kinda hard to push any blocks up to match, spent most of the time dodging those falling blocks!

lereveur 2014-12-10 00:06

Hard to play, but still fun and good looking. Good job. ;)

bcole99 2014-12-10 00:07

30!

chaoseed 2014-12-10 01:21

Interesting! You've actually gotten something that's playable and is fun, heh. The graphics and sound are great; the only issue I have is that the game is pretty unforgiving...You really have to keep on your toes and make sure to jump through every time the blocks "come around" to where you are. Good work, though!

jezzamon 2014-12-10 01:28

I had a lot of fun playing this game, even though it was relatively simple! Good job!

I think the change I would most want to see would be some animation for the character. It's not too hard to do!

bcole99 2014-12-10 02:06

I think I'm going to polish this up and call it 'Pit and the Puzzle Blocks'.

sanchitgulati 2014-12-10 17:48

A silly little physics game, couldn't be described better.
and I meant this in a good way.

tomvert 2014-12-10 19:25

But that's great, one of the most engaging game I've played so far. I love that rythmic block dropping that makes it easy to anticipate, there's a survival feeling, sometimes you are in helpless situation, you take your chance and make one big jump. Very cool stuff. Could be easier though, I don't know how...

puppetmaster 2014-12-10 23:35

5* for Innovation. Hard to master, but after a while you take the control of the game.
Well made!

tsabanski 2014-12-11 07:34

I had similar issues to GreenyUK. While I'm not too great at platforming, I was having a tough time trying to figure out how to not die. :(

I managed to get a high score of 16, but it was mostly due to sheer random chance in terms of the falling blocks, and I felt like I really did nothing to earn that score.

The art is well done, and the idea of pushing blocks around and matching them and avoiding falling blocks is alright -- there's just too much death potential. Maybe if there weren't any spikes on the floor?

scnoobi 2014-12-11 07:41

the moving when not having to push anything didn't always work. felt quite floaty when playing. no way to move blocks by pushing them down with your weight.

threstle 2014-12-11 10:23

Nice little idea. It's quite challenging, I like it. ;)

sinistragames 2014-12-11 14:37

Really cool idea and a lot of fun! A litle more polished and better, sharpher controls you really got a fun game here : )

mopz 2014-12-11 17:41

It was okay, but I didn't really feel I had control of what was happening. Jump, push blocks together, score some points, get hit in the head. Could become something great though :)

johnnwfs 2014-12-13 04:38

I somewhat like the concept and for a simple physics game I liked the pixel art and sounds. Just too hard to make it fun for long for me.

mechatodzilla 2014-12-13 06:04

Cool idea and fun to play. Great entry.

brittbrady 2014-12-13 06:29

Very cool concept. I think it's a little to hard at first. I think maybe if it was more of a vertical screen view that would help to see whats coming?

stasss 2014-12-13 12:03

Very nice) Interesting gameplay, but maybe if brics wont hurt will be easier to play

tritegames 2014-12-13 12:55

Nice concept. It's just too hard to actually push the blocks together without dying and the platforms are too far away from each other. Has potential though :)

vladik-plays 2014-12-13 14:15

Nice game. Really liked it..

mrhill 2014-12-13 15:01

nice game, got 24 after I got the puzzle mechanic

sharky 2014-12-13 15:02

Lack of good instructions took me a while to figure out the basics(and don't know if there was more advanced never lived long enough)

2014-12-13 15:22

Love the sounds! Wasn't quite sure how to play it though!

incredible-ape 2014-12-13 17:34

Interesting idea!

I thought the puzzle mechanic was simple and clear, and it was presented cleanly--it didn't take me much time to figure out what was going on.

With the speed of the movement combined with the ever-changing landscape, I think it would have been nice to have had an indicator to tell me where the next block would fall to give me a little bit more time to react.

Either that or googley eyes. Googley eyes would really take it to the next level.

havi 2014-12-13 21:08

Very cool and fun game! Also nice concept.
It was quite hard in the start but when I got the grip of it I really enjoyed it! :D

kerdelos 2014-12-13 21:39

Nice game overall. I would make the cubes starts poping on the same side of the player. This way we don't have to wait one turn to start playing.

garygreen 2014-12-13 22:01

I really liked this. It was simple and a nice twist on Tetris. It was very tricky though.

yodamaster 2014-12-13 23:01

Good idea. A bit too annoying because you die too easily.

pulsartronic 2014-12-13 23:15

Interesing idea. Mixing some of my favourite games on one piece of cake. Like it. Congrats :)

supermsp10 2014-12-14 15:03

Very cool, very well made, fun to play too. My only suggestion would be,if you decide to continue development, add some new game play features like an enemy maybe.

sakergames 2014-12-14 17:52

Nice tetris game, with innovative game play. Well done! :)

shampop 2014-12-14 19:10

Funny idea ! I think this is just a little too hard. It's hard to combine pieces, and basicly this is more juste random than anything. But it's still fun !

6downstudios 2014-12-15 05:55

Silly but great! Dynamic levels can be very rewarding, and the physics makes it quite a bit of fun! Adding some other guys to the level could be good, maybe some random hoppers or flying bats or somesuch. Anyways, nice job, really liked it!

pht59x 2014-12-15 22:11

A platformer with tetris blocks. Why not? Love the sound effects.

integershift 2014-12-15 23:32

Fun little game enjoyed it a lot actually still trying to figure out how I actually collected the score other than that it was a very solid entry.

jjevil 2014-12-15 23:34

Ok, when you are anticipating your next jum, and the blocks disappear because they match, and you've already jumped.... ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Good game. Quite hard. I see many rage-quits in this game's future.

chuigum 2014-12-16 01:17

Very innovative! Nice game

vikingpotato 2014-12-16 04:00

The idea is really good, but the game lacks agency.. i often feel i did not have have a fair chance before dying

androniq 2014-12-17 01:06

Nice idea. It's pretty fun/funny to be rushing around inside (sort of) tetris and it's harder than it looks.

Lucariatias 2014-12-20 13:11

This was pretty hard. It made good use of tetris blocks, and the platform mechanic, and it kept me coming back a few times. Perhaps add difficulty settings, because although it was good, it was also frustrating.

paffe 2014-12-21 12:07

Very interesting idea and decent execution! ps. when you comment on a game you could leave a slightly more detailed explanation on why you couldn't get the game to run. It would be more helpful. Just a heads up bro!

derosa 2014-12-28 12:01

Wow, that was hard and unexpectedly fun! Thanks!

gins 2014-12-28 12:32

That was cool, but the difficulty is quite high :) would be cool if the blocks fell slower in the beginning so you can get used to it.
I can see a lot of potential in this, giving the character additional powers to manipulate blocks or protection etc.

insality 2014-12-28 13:43

nice concept, cool game as result ;]
gj!

geckoo1337 2014-12-28 13:47

Interesting ++

el-pepi 2014-12-28 20:56

Pretty fun and hard! I liked it!

arcturusdeluxe 2014-12-28 21:53

Nice idea, definitely something that could be built on. Controls are a bit hit and miss, and its a bit difficult to get very far, but lots of potential here.