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Diamond Dive

By amooseinaroom

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall7812.9317
Fun8212.5317
Innovation5393.1017
Theme6123.3617
Graphics7392.7617
Humor6702.0317
Mood8362.5617

Comments

xpoho 2025-04-07 08:39

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Nice game! I own my personall record now ^_^ Good luck!

online-play 2025-04-07 19:52

I really appreciate everyone who can create custom game renderers. The game is cool and honestly feels complete

istok 2025-04-08 18:44

Looks good, but sometimes the map generates hopeless situations. But I like the game!

maskrosen 2025-04-09 19:27

Good job, especially in such a short time! Also impressive to do a game jam with your own language. The game is an interesting idea and could work even better as a multiplayer game.

amooseinaroom 2025-04-10 13:18

I might add a multiplayer mode after the jam, thanks for the idea!

clink 2025-04-13 10:12

The overall concept is solid. You have a basis for something good here. But the game in it's current state isn't too enjoyable, or at least I didn't get much enjoyment out of it. There's a few changes I'd suggest to make the run-to-run experience less frustrating.

Firstly, the countdown at the top of the screen could possibly be changed to a bar that depletes with time. As it stands, before you get a grasp on how much you have left after reading the prompt, that time will have already ran out. To combat that, I had to simply disregard the timer completely, and play as if it wasn't there at all, which isn't good considering that it's supposed to aid the player, without diverting them from their task.

It might also help to put the timer closer to either the middle or the bottom of the screen. Having it all the way up only adds to the "takes your attention away from the action" aspect. Perhaps the timer's placement wouldn't be as much of an issue if the player was given more time per stage.

Lastly, having the time be randomised makes the whole thing feel unfair. But the fault lies in how vast the time difference can be, rather than the fact it's randomised in the first place. I know it's meant to be a part of the challenge, but I don't think shortening the disparities would take away from the game's difficulty.

Hope to see your project grow, and good luck with your future commercial endeavours!

amooseinaroom 2025-04-13 10:28

@clink Thanks for taking the time to give so much detailed feedback!

I agree that properly visualizing the timer would add much to the game.

The timer however is not random, it gets reduced every fall and resets to the full length after a fixed set of falls. Which then also increase the block density. Making the reset more visible would also improve it, right now all I show is a fading out text that the block density increased >.< (and this was suppose to give you a hint that the timer also reset)

Hope this helps a bit and I really appreciate the feedback!

ty-victorson 2025-04-19 08:37

Clink pretty much sums up all the thoughts I had, moving the timer down and being a bit clearer on the mechanics like the timer reset you mentioned but other than that I think you did a great job especially since you made it all from scratch! I'm looking forward to future updates if you decide to polish up the game more or add new features!

holyblackcat 2025-04-20 13:54

Sadly crashes at startup for me in Wine. Crash report: https://pastebin.com/HLiFJzaZ

Not gonna be easy debugging this without the address sanitizer. :P

amooseinaroom 2025-04-20 20:10

@holyblackcat I was told it worked fine with proton? But I don't know if you want to go through the trouble of trying :D

tkap1 2025-04-20 21:13

Nice! My record was 19 diamonds

amooseinaroom 2025-04-20 21:16

@tkap1 prove it! :P

tkap1 2025-04-20 21:27

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