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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Mechanics | #143 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Sound | #203 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
| Fun | #238 | 3.450 | 3.450 |
| Aesthetics | #255 | 3.650 | 3.650 |
| Overall | #279 | 3.400 | 3.400 |
| Story | #327 | 2.650 | 2.650 |
| Theme | #454 | 3.100 | 3.100 |
| Music | #699 | 1.700 | 1.700 |
Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Audio from Sonniss GameAudioGDC2023 and 2024 bundles
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This is a great invest of the classic Tetris. Great work!
Thank you very much :D!
Ooooh interesting way to combine Tetris gameplay with your game. I can definitely see how building up a formidable defense is a challenge. However, when all lines are cleared, it is also very easy to just kill enemies. Overall, a fun game to play!
Thank you :D! Yes, I definitely need to make some adjustments to make the difficulty more consistent :)
Really unique idea, I loved this, also felt very polished and good to play! The issue was the game was too easy once everything was cleared, there should be a motive to clear lines and to have something on screen, maybe if everytime they shot and missed something happened behind your back, or idk but still loved this idea!
Thanks so much! Yes, that's a really good point, and I like that idea of having other targets behind you as an added incentive - thank you!
Very FUN and UNIQUE idea on this game! AWESOME WORK!!! GREAT ART!!! NICE MECHANICS!!! This was a fun challenging game. Loved it.
Pretty nice twist on the classic tetris formula!
However there's a pretty massive issue though, you're not incentivized to clear lines, so you can just stack up blocks on top off a single column & just... wait until you ran out of blocks & just spam drop the blocks again, rinse & repeat (you're pretty much invincible...). Would love to see an incentive so clear lines, maybe let the cleared lines fall down like sand (similar to the "Zone mode" in tetris effect's boss mode).
Other than that glaring issue, I love the twist & the aesthetics of the game so great job on that ✨!
Thanks so much! Yes, you're right 🙈😂! I'm thinking also of making the enemy/projectile spawning a bit more sophisticated so that sections that have more blocks stacked up get a faster rate of projectiles which should help prevent isolated columns building up too far, and also make it easier to build new rows back up once they have been destroyed, as at the moment it can feel a bit of a wasted effort as they get broken up so quickly :)
Great game! love the twist on the classic tetris
Thank you very much :D!
Interesting variant, kind of liked it actually. Nice job on the game!
Thanks so much :D!
Very interesting tetris variant. I like!
Thanks for playing :D!
Fun twist on tetris. Very nice aesthetics and pretty enraging when your line gets destroyed just before dropping a block :D
Thank you :D! Haha at least sometimes it works the other way to clear out mis-dropped blocks 😆
I really like this twist on the tetris formula! The art and sound really hammers home the idea that you're playing as a blacksmith defending your foundry. The tetris gameplay is also solid, and I like how we can temporarily eliminate some enemies by dropping blocks on them. Excellent work!
Thank you very much for the feedback :D!
Wow, this is very unique. I love art and sounds. I think this could be a very fun mobile game!
I think it would be nice to have harder blocks for example that require few shots to be broken but take the same amount of space. or maybe some way to fill small spaces like pouring hot lava to melt blocks but feel small spaces.
Good job!
Thanks so much! Yes I definitely want to make it a bit more strategic with different block types - those are really good ideas, thank you :D!
Fun and different variation on the block puzzlers like Tetris. Would love to see this taken further! :)
Thank you very much!
Very interesting and unique twist on Tetris. Good job!
Thank you :D!
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. But up and down keys are not doing anything. I just stand up there forever until I eventually die.
Oh no! If by any chance you are using wasd, I didn’t properly implement those yet so only the a and d keys respond, but the up/down/left/right keys should be working 🤞
Wow, such an interesting interpretation, I played many, many games.
The colours worked really well.
Thanks so much 😁!
It is the best reimagining of tetris I have ever played or seen by FAR. From the very start mechanic is understandable. If you are going to go further with this project you really have to port it to mobile.
Thank you! I really enjoyed working on it so I think I will try and flesh it out a bit more :)! Glad you enjoyed playing it!
Really cool concept. Also very good sound effects. But one thing tho when you want to rotate with clicking up it is not working 2 out of three. I hope it can be fixed because I think you might find a place on higher ranks.
Thank you very much! Yes the rotation needs a bit more work - I think it can get stuck if you are too close to the side or have too many blocks at the top, but a couple of the blocks are also mirrored rather than doing a rotation around a central pivot like proper tetris so can look a bit odd!
This is a very nice concept. A nice twist on a popular genre. The game already looks very polished. And it gets crazy the longer you survive. Which is a nice challenge.
Thanks so much!
Love the concept. rich idea! Go further with it, plz!
Thank you :D!