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Grow and Match

By johnnwfs

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness352
Theme444.35
Innovation1483.73
Humor3252.71
Overall5523.15
Mood5542.87
Audio6452.16
Graphics7112.63
Fun8062.62

Comments

domnomnom 2015-12-15 05:56

Neat game mechanic concept although I found it a bit slow to play and do the actions that I wanted
Swapping the semantics for colours/numbers would be quite cool as that way it's easier to preempt when to move away from a small globe.
Well done for having multiple stages that introduce complexity.

nizar89 2015-12-16 13:20

Cool idea, loved it.
Maybe a bit too slow, which lead to frustration in my case.
The only black spot is the audio, it was painful after a couple of minutes

knason 2015-12-17 17:35

I liked this a lot, really fun! Great job!

johnnwfs 2015-12-19 22:42

I was worried about the grow/shrink sound being a problem with extended play. An updated version would change it up. Also, the HTML version seems much slower than the Windows version. I'd have to look at optimizing the speed for any updated version to make it less frustrating. Thanks for the reviews.

acotis 2015-12-20 19:03

Pretty cool mechanic, but I kept getting annoyed by missing the ball by *that* much and having to do another full revolution. Perhaps you could make the 'smaller ball' speed faster?

themadknights 2015-12-24 18:01

The concept is interesting and the theme fits in perfectly! Good job :)

miwuc 2015-12-25 07:58

Interesting mechanic, although I found it frustrating to play. At first it's reaaally slow and you spend like 15 seconds each turn doing nothing. It gets faster later on, but I got angry at level 6 and quit, so maybe it's just not a game for me :) One thing that might help is having a more obvious order of color change, and/or a cheatsheet that shows the order, so that you can plan things better.
It's a detail but I liked the subtle different backgrounds for each level. The game fits the 2-button theme perfectly.

silvio 2015-12-25 22:21

nice mechanics

thebrickanator 2015-12-26 06:10

very simple and challenging :P twas quite fun.

davidcmcdonald 2015-12-27 04:33

very different concept, i like that it has some challenge thats well though out as apposed to being challenging just because of bad coding, well done :). a soundtrack could have gone a long way but i enjoyed it none the less

thristhart 2015-12-27 04:55

I love the growing/shrinking to change rotation speed mechanic! In practice I found the pattern matching tedious, but the movement mechanic is interesting.

lonestranger 2015-12-27 17:17

Neat idea; good use of two button controls and growing. The slowdown when growing larger was distracting, and if you miss, the downtime between rotating back can get boring.

nassi 2015-12-27 19:32

The web version had some annoying slowdowns and the audio was unbearable. The mechanic itself is quite annoying too, as at least I had a lot of downtime due to missing the "target" regularly or not touching it for long enough or for too long.

johnnwfs 2015-12-27 21:42

Wow

johnnwfs 2015-12-27 21:43

oops - enter too soon.. Wow. Well, thanks for the honest feedback! *sigh*

bloodjohn 2016-01-04 06:02

I got the hang of after some hesitation. The game lacks emotional involvement.

johnnwfs 2016-01-04 20:02

Thanks BloodJohn - good point.