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Mad Desert

By djosef

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4153.5532
Fun4243.3931
Innovation8752.8931
Theme3643.7632
Graphics2573.9431
Audio3283.3631
Humor4712.8129
Mood6463.0730

Comments

antsa 2018-08-13 20:47

There were some graphical glitches while running against the blocks. Also it's quite hard to find a block you can push in time :P. Still a nice entry

mrsylar59 2018-08-13 20:49

Simple but fun game. Would be nice if we could also pull blocks, sometime I was blocked and had to wait for the game to create more blocks in order to leave a zone were there is no pushable block. Overall it's a good game :)

ch33s3-22 2018-08-13 20:49

I like the tetris aspect of it, how you can clear lines. The audio fits nicely with the game.

meltobis 2018-08-13 20:49

I think the art looks amazing and it is a great idea, I thought it was really fun! Congrats :)

van-long 2018-08-13 20:53

There are some bugs here. I notice the random algorithm always leave a slot empty (4 or 5th from the left). I just standing there and get high score until a box fill that hole.

hare-software 2018-08-13 21:00

The art is beautiful, the physics seems very smooth and the gameplay is fun, great job!

austino-bobino 2018-08-13 21:01

Awesome game! I love the art and the music, very fitting. Although there are a few odd bugs like the ones detailed above, it's a fun little game. I enjoyed playing it, great job!

otmani-yacer 2018-08-13 21:04

you can Double jump when you jump on edge of the box but its good game and fun to play it

monstr 2018-08-13 21:12

Really liked the game. The graphics were great and the sounds were good too.

The concept was good and for the most part it worked well but I found myself being a victim of randomness a bit too often and I'd end up caught between blocks or a block would fall on top of a block I was about to push which would mean I couldn't push it. I would have liked a bit more control over the blocks since having 2 blocks fall next to each other felt really unlucky. Maybe pulling blocks would be a nice idea.

The game was fun though. I definitely enjoyed it!

matank 2018-08-13 21:14

A few things I'd improve:

1) In my first playthrough I didn't really understand what was going on. Would be nice if there was a clear indication for which blocks on the screen are pushable - my first time around I just tried to push a bunch of boxes that were at the bottom of the stack and thought the push button doesn't work 2) You can jump higher than 1 box by landing on the edge of the bottom box. I think it's a bug but not sure. If it's not a bug, it seems to be working pretty inconsistently.

Other than that, I had fun playing the game! My best time was around 2.5 minutes. Graphics were really nice and music was fun.

diego-goncalves 2018-08-14 00:45

Nice art and gameplay. I was surprised it worked like a Tetris, maybe you should make it clearer about this feature.

zenris 2018-08-14 14:24

Cool little game, nice take on Tetris. The art was also very nice.

mateusboga 2018-08-14 14:35

I enjoyed this game! I liked the TNT blocks, but it was easy to get stuck. I was also able to sometimes abuse the game's phisics anc climb out of holes by getting stuck to the wall. I also think the game's framerate could be optimized.

nicso 2018-08-14 14:37

is that a stardew valley sound ? nice little game 😉

randdir 2018-08-14 14:40

Really nice graphics pal. Really appreciate the ambiance and theme choose for a tetris like. Unfortunatle i guess it miss some speed (for me). Suggest to move a lil faster with the character. But animation is very nice. Good job keep it up !

r3nrohan 2018-08-14 14:59

I had no idea why was I pushing blocks until I realized its a tetris game. Its a solid gameplay.

flower 2018-08-14 15:19

Concept is really good, Nice work)

indiemaniac 2018-08-14 16:20

Average game, art is good. There should be a way to deal with big stacks of boxes, you cant get over them or just destroy them somehow.

lonehearts 2018-08-14 16:38

Time : 168 Score : 1710, it's a good game, art is cute and music fits well but it has some bug when moving

fractalsunrise 2018-08-14 17:53

I really liked this game! The art and audio work very well together, and I really enjoyed the effects like the sand blowing that helped sell the desert world. It looked gorgeous fullscreen.

I was initially confused about what I was supposed to do, but once I realized that the bottom rows disappear for points like Tetris it was much better. The box physics were a bit odd at times when they didn't quite align to a grid; once I even ended up in this peculiar situation after some TNT blasted a hole on the left:

bug.png

Perhaps the game could be improved with a custom grid-based physics system for the blocks to prevent the edges causing odd behaviors, although I really did like being able to jump on the very edge of some of the boxes and it was still very fun to play as is. Thanks for a really fun and well-polished game!