syrail 2021-04-27 05:14
Took me a bit for the puzzle mechanics to click, but once they did it was awesome!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → Match! Drop! Match!
By qzqxq, emanon, clue and alaraen
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 478 | 3.78 | 30 | |
| Fun | 338 | 3.76 | 30 | |
| Innovation | 200 | 3.92 | 30 | |
| Theme | 396 | 4.01 | 30 | |
| Graphics | 1177 | 3.42 | 30 | |
| Audio | 782 | 3.35 | 29 | |
| Humor | 1350 | 2.05 | 20 | |
| Mood | 1572 | 2.89 | 25 |
Took me a bit for the puzzle mechanics to click, but once they did it was awesome!
Neat twist on the usual match-3 mechanics! The only issue is that it wasn't super clear how to play at first, even with the instructions. Still once I got the hang of it, it was a really fun game!
Puzzle games are always a personal favorite of mine when does well, and this game is an example of one done really well. Super fun and unique version of the match-3 type puzzle games, having multiple boards forces you to plan multiple steps ahead.
At first, I thought that this was a stretch for the theme, however, when I got the hang of it and started going "deeper and deeper" into the boards, it really clicked for me! It did take a while to properly realise what to do, but once I did, it was really fun and was an interesting take on other games. :) Good job!
Wow the leaderboard competition is so fierce. I reached 604 just now so barely missing the leaderboard cutoff.
Love the mechanics and the background track is great. I just read your detailed gameplay notes and didn't realize at all during playing that it was deterministic; I thought it was random with some weighted probabilities to make it more likely for you to be able to continue to form chains.
It's cool to see you all added colorblind accessibility also!
Interesting spin on the match-three genre. Did you consider adding time to the clock for making matches? I think that could be fun.
A Wonderful experimental entry, the idea is really clear and smooth. My main concern with the game is color theory. For me (color blind) is extremely hard to reconize yellow/green color (i think thats are the right colors xD) but is like a Mercyless mode for me try to make a single match with that colors.
Overall really cool and unique game. Great job.
@dalloner The game has an accessibility mode, as noted in the controls, which you can enable by pressing A. Let us know if you still have trouble distinguishing the tiles in the accessibility mode.
That interest me !
Wow! It's inovation in match 3 genre :) Amazing!
Lovely falling block puzzle game! It took me a while to get my head around the main mechanic for matching up starting and ending colours, but once I did the game turned out to be really fun. It'd be much nicer for the game to be extended each time you score a certain number of points or something rather than just being on a strict two minute timer, but I can understand why you might set it that way for the jam. Either way, great game, I'd love to see this polished up for a post-jam release. I also massively appreciate the fact you made it playable in the browser, it's such a helpful step for when you want to quickly get into playing a game. Great music too! :)
Really good interpretation of the match-3 genre for fitting into the LudumDare theme. The thing that I liked the most is the fact you guys have implemented a leaderboard! You could remove the devs names before submitting though! Music and SFX are also nice. Solid entry!
@offdutyextractors @extar We thought about having a longer or extensible timer, but in playtesting the standard mode felt very intense, it felt like it would be really hard to stay focused enough for more than two minutes.
For players who want less time pressure, we added the untimed mode, which is more of a puzzle based experience.
Ok, let me tell you that this is a very innovative mechanism! I really love Match 3 genre and with this mechanism.
Besides that, The ArtStyle and the background music are very very good. Really amazing :)
Also big point on adding Leaderboard and as @extar said.. i would love to see a full Post-LD release! On mobile this game would rock
Nice game. I really love the take on the theme and it was a lot of fun to play. Having the two different modes that each posed their own challenge was a nice touch and a scoreboard is great to be able to see how you stack up. I think this could make a really great mobile game.
This is so much fun! Probably one of my favorite games I have played so far.
@clue oh dude! I didnt see that... People if u are color blind, By Press A is like Pray to Yisus and be hearded. 10/10 this game.
Quite difficult but interesting mechanic. This would work very well on a touch screen :) Good job!
Had fun, it took me a while to remember to do the L shapes, those are pretty key to keep going. Nice mix up of match 3! Since the results trickle down you get less and less blocks, there's something about that that feels it could be more balanced maybe? Like being able to make longer combos or something. Nice job!
I was also a bit confused at first by the mechanics (thought you had to drag on 3 shapes that were ALL the same color) :)