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Soko Match

By francoisvn

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness353
Graphics1343.83
Overall1403.68
Fun2173.49
Innovation2323.51
Mood4402.98
Humor5082.09
Theme5853.19

Comments

theonlygooddrcz 2016-04-18 02:39

the game is very pleasant to interact with! eveything is so smooth, and the colors are tasty!

dunin 2016-04-18 12:59

Cool game. Nice and smart.
We would play much (levels? bigger area?)
(My best is 21)

grayhaze 2016-04-18 16:30

An enjoyable, but difficult puzzle game. Reminded me a lot of Threes, but obviously completely different in mechanics. When I started I made a few matches without realising what I'd done, which led to a bit of confusion as to why things kept changing. I still managed to win though!

Really well done and something I'd like to see developed further for mobile. :)

anissen 2016-04-18 19:25

Really elegant art style. Very nice mechanic - very Threes!-like :)

alexlamarche 2016-04-18 21:37

Probably going to be the next big app. I'm so jealous! :::)
Great Work.

david-cookie 2016-04-19 00:19

It has a really good potential to be a hit like Threes, but it lacks some audio for now (it's mostly for this reason that I enjoyed Threes). But it has the smooth, the colors.. basically everything else! So yeah, I hope you will keep working on it :) If you need any music, I could give you a hand!

fengol 2016-04-19 05:53

The only thing I can think to add would be more ceremony (i.e. particle effects) when there's a match. I would buy this as a mobile title

deepnight 2016-04-19 10:34

I'm no good at this kind of game but it was fun to play anyway!

gamepopper 2016-04-19 12:43

Nice puzzle game, really well polished! Great job!

xaychru04 2016-04-19 13:25

Nice game, it plays smoothly. I'd like to see more difficulty though.

rossborchers 2016-04-19 17:18

Super robust game. Rules were smoothly communicated and left plenty space for exploration afterwards. Great job!

johnbrynte 2016-04-19 22:46

I was a bit confused by the rules, having both numbers and colors, as well as what spawned the immovable blocks. Maybe I just need more tutorial levels though. Liked it, still! :)

hyoga-3d 2016-04-20 00:02

Very nice gameplay, simple but very challenging.

cabezotta 2016-04-20 01:31

impeccable entry! very polished! great work!

ethankennerly 2016-04-20 04:11

When I matched a dozen and realized that some tiles were blocked or would be shifted as a side-effect of my plan to line up three, I thought to myself: "I hate this game" and "I have to finish". I felt compelled! If you continue to design this gem, sometimes dice flipped over and I didn't see why in time. Did I match 3 of the same number? I was only looking for color. Sometimes a tile turned into a blocker. What causes that?

pythong 2016-04-20 06:23

nice time waster. good job

dammit 2016-04-20 08:28

Nice! I do like these kinds of puzzles though I got quite a few of my matches completely accidentally.

mdotedot 2016-04-20 13:00

Very Nice! I will enjoy the Android version. It has a nice swipe-to-move-action. Solid entry. Good Job.

knason 2016-04-20 18:47

Interesting game. I really liked the colors and the game overall felt polished, job well done! :)

markusfisch 2016-04-20 20:32

Beat it! What a very cool mix! This game definitely has potential. Really good idea and awesome work!

eolhing 2016-04-20 20:47

Cool game, very catchy !

fakeyou 2016-04-20 20:58

Wish there was an infite mode.

a_cupcake 2016-04-20 23:48

I got to 30 matches before I got pretty much totally blocked in. Well done!
As a side note I tended to gravitate towards colour matches and pretty much ignored the symbols but that's probably because that's where my brain is wired to focus. It's good that you have a variety of ways to match.

hippy-dave 2016-04-21 01:03

Nice :) I was just matching colours, I'd echo other people's comments that it could use a bit more in-depth explanation.

mightytoaststudio 2016-04-21 08:43

Fun and clever, good job!

mrbungle 2016-04-21 11:49

Seems like a great start to what could be an awesome mobile puzzler. I beat the game but didn't feel like I exactly knew what I was doing all the time or why certain things happened - immovable blocks appeared for example. I also ended up only aiming for colour matching, my brain didn't seem to be able to process multiple matching criteria simultaneously! Overall a very polished, promising entry that you should definitely develop further.

2016-04-21 17:01

Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35.
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description

francoisvn 2016-04-21 18:42

@Freank: thanks for the offer! I'm very happy for you to feature Soko Match in any video, but unfortunately I won't have the time to create and maintain a game page on your site, at least while Soko Match is in such an early experimental phase. Sorry!

rfgpfeiffer 2016-04-22 08:07

I really love the minimalist graphics and the polished animation. The difficulty was not too great or too small for a jam game.

I don't know how you could keep on increasing the difficulty and add a score attack mode, but that would really add replay value. Maybe a hard mode could have more columns and rows. Also the complete lack of audio feedback holds the game back a tiny bit.

nvrskipgameday 2016-04-22 13:17

Very smooth, I like the bit of exploration in the beginning - you don't tell the user what to do, just suggest, it's well done. The art and color palette is great as well.

Really well done, thanks for sharing!

ayawaska 2016-04-22 14:45

Nice work. Interesting gameplay and nice visuals!

tanjent 2016-04-22 18:17

Really nice puzzler. It felt a bit too random sometimes since you could get some high matches while trying to go for another target you had in mind (like 123, but happened to get 444 on the way) but I think that with more time and some level design it could do pretty well. Perhaps introducing gravity/collapse could spice it up...

dj_pale 2016-04-24 17:08

Very nice puzzler - great to have tutorials at the beginning (not all prioritize this in jams). As others have noted - there were some instances where I started very many chain reactions and it were a bit confusing.

jupiter_hadley 2016-04-25 15:05

Really lovely graphics. I included it in my video compilation series of Ludum Dare games, if you’d like to check them out :) https://youtu.be/Q_baWrdQ2o4

torcado194 2016-04-29 18:26

nice game! its well polished, but gets difficult really quickly (after you win)
nice job!

flummox2d 2016-04-30 14:01

Very slick and minimalistic style, really like it. some background music would be great. Awesome entry! :)

avinashd 2016-05-03 06:03

Really well-done difficulty curve. Great game!

commanderstitch 2016-05-04 04:11

the graphics and style was nice. Mostly i just move the tiles around till things happened.

sabina-lis 2016-05-06 02:34

Fun puzzle game, well done!

01010111 2016-05-09 19:40

I really love your games :D You have an excellent eye for visual design, and the mechanics are really fresh and easy to dive into. Great work!

francoisvn 2016-05-10 13:35

Thanks for all the great feedback everyone! I have some plans to come back to this game in the future and I'll post something here to let everyone know :)