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Block Shift

By templar3lf

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness355
Innovation2773.44
Overall3403.35
Fun3913.25
Theme4603.37
Graphics5232.90
Mood5622.77

Comments

2016-04-16 16:58

Great Graphics, great gameplay and quite challenging. Could be a really nice mobile game for Android and IOS :D

alphius 2016-04-16 17:18

That's great!
I'd suggest finding a way to move the blocs with the arrow keys, because drag n' dropping is quite slow and doesn't allow to react fast enough. Maybe clicking on a bloc to select it, and move it with the arrows next?

casualcat 2016-04-16 18:03

Nice! That's really creative, and the game looks clean and pretty well polished!

basstian11 2016-04-16 18:22

omg nice :-D

mukult 2016-04-16 20:34

Cool concept man! Nice gameplay but dont know how it progresses.

templar3lf 2016-04-16 20:43

Progression is time based. Aim is the highest score. Easy changes to moderate at 25 seconds, which changes to hard at 100.

firedragon2225 2016-04-16 21:56

This is pretty cool, I like the whole feel of the game and how everything fits and works together.

xoko14 2016-04-17 08:04

Wow, congratulations

firephoenix 2016-04-17 19:48

Very nice game mechanics! The game flows and all components work together perfectly.

been 2016-04-18 10:53

Enjoyed the game, although it felt a little too slow paced for to me start with. Maybe have a selectable difficulty at the start with sets how quickly the pace increases?

tharky 2016-04-18 12:02

Nice graphics and gameplay. It's new but it wasn't that fun for me. I guess I didn't have the patience :( Overall it's quite cool.

sol_hsa 2016-04-18 12:05

Fun minimalistic idea. I quickly just moved the tiles to a horizontal line and that seemed to be a winning strategy for quite a long time. Some sounds would be nice?

staircase27 2016-04-18 12:05

Couldn't load. Not able to allocate enough memory. Maybe produce windows and linux builds not just web

zodalia 2016-04-18 12:07

I really like this. It's simple, but reasonably challenging.

There's a lot of potential for mixing up the core rules that this version establishes, like giving the movable tiles different colours and having colour gates, or requiring a shape to be created at a certain point.

oal 2016-04-18 12:10

Really interesting concept. With some polish, this could become a great game.

miguelsantirso 2016-04-18 12:11

I think the premise of the game has a lot of potential. The design is elegant, and the art is simple but nice.

However, the experience would be better if the way of moving the pieces wasn't so slow. It soon gets to a point when you know what you have to do, but can't do it because of the controls (the click and drag mechanic).

The interpretation of the theme of the competition is great too!

ruchirbapat 2016-04-18 12:14

awesome game loved itt

gamepopper 2016-04-18 12:30

Easy to get into, and a very moderate difficulty curve. The UI in particular looks great. This would definitely work well as a smartphone game, you should try and get some music + sfx and port it to Android and iOS.

neondx 2016-04-18 12:50

nice game, I just think that it's a little harder to do the drag and drop of all cubes (sometimes)

theonlygooddrcz 2016-04-18 17:57

score 81... it reminds me of a repetitive nightmare I had as a kid, that I'm running home and trying to hold my toys in both hands but they are sliping and falling down. that's the kind of feeling I had playing. The look (esp colors) is awesome.

lafunk 2016-04-18 18:02

Nice! Smooth execution. Touch input should do wonders here.

obsessivenotion 2016-04-19 11:09

I like the idea of moving them into positions. Really nice to check how quick you can move the blocks around. Needs more polish to make addictive (graphics and sounds)

mutonizer 2016-04-19 15:32

Interesting concept though not sure how it's related to the theme. Quite challenging once past the 100ish points too.

One issue: Buttons on the left of the screen uselessly hide a lot of the good position to use and prevent clicking on the the blocks proper.

Otherwise, good, simple and does the job entry.

pixelaborate 2016-04-20 00:11

Solid Entry, could definitely see it as a IPhone game with a little more polish.

cat5casey 2016-04-20 01:00

Another stand-out entry. :D

I tend to rate games that exhibit good scoping/time budgeting really favorably, especially when the finished product is intuitive and polished. This is an excellent example of that.

Not super ambitious, but the core mechanic is unique. Lots of possibilities for cool iteration. ^-^

Good job.

jjjanee 2016-04-20 01:51

Got to 113 points! (not sure if that's good or not but I'm proud of myself.) I really liked this game! Would probably actually download it on my phone lol.
The idea was perfect and fits with the theme pretty well. It was a bit slow to click and drag; maybe doing something like clicking a block then clicking its destination and the block moves there would be a little more user friendly? The click and drag does add more challenge to the game though, since I figured I could just line all the blocks in a row and move them one by one right after the last wall has passed, and the click and drag made it harder to survive like that...

Great idea! Loved it! Good job. :)

interface 2016-04-20 01:53

Simple and easy to understand. Seems like a good touch-based game for mobile where you can move quicker.

squatch 2016-04-20 02:07

Very nice! It's hard, but pretty fun.

fatkarate 2016-04-20 02:25

got hard fast

plko 2016-04-20 04:23

Interesting, and hard really hard

horsed 2016-04-20 07:09

Nice colors. I found it quite easy once I figured out that the blocks can be moved horizontally. Just align them in one horizontal line and you have plenty of time moving them to the next position one after another. Apply some easing to the movement and this could be a decent mobile puzzler.

austinsheep 2016-04-20 07:55

I also made a game where you need to fit through an approaching wall!

rakowu 2016-04-20 10:47

110score :/ Really good and easy concept. Keppt it on, nice work.

wizbyte_games 2016-04-20 15:06

So I am assuming this is getting ported to android. (Please say yes.)

dat_not_my_game 2016-04-20 15:45

Good concept!

redcubegames 2016-04-20 16:21

Not a bad game, I find it too easy tho. Controlls are a bit awkward on pc, might be better on mobile

dat_not_my_game 2016-04-20 16:34

Good concept!

larzan 2016-04-20 17:32

Nice concept, good game.

tripl3m 2016-04-20 18:28

Nice Game, simple yet nicely polished. Would love some sound effect, i'd suggest triggering some musical note each time your place a cube on a tile

seconddimension 2016-04-20 20:05

Wow this was tough, but not in a really bad way. It was quite addictive actually, I was trying to figure out the best way to handle things, but as soon as it got to hard mode I panic and failed every time

sir-magic 2016-04-20 20:29

Nice game, really innovative idea there

santiandrade 2016-04-20 22:10

Excellent job of design!

captainpilot 2016-04-20 22:29

Take a while to get challenging. Should have ramped up a little sooner. Other than that, great!

belroth 2016-04-20 22:50

Fun over all. I played it several times :)

plaguespark 2016-04-20 23:03

I really liked idea! Game would totaly rock on mobile devices with touch!

lostalloy 2016-04-22 07:40

This game is perfect for mobile devices! Really liked the idea!

gyfis 2016-04-22 09:02

Wow, that was quite hard! Not that enjoyable with a trackpad. Score 111.

team_disposable 2016-05-04 21:37

Lovely game - the interface is fantastic, I love the way it never takes you out of the game.