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A jam submission

Temporary TowersView game page

A tetris-inspired game for GMTK23
Submitted by Liioni, rustygrum — 8 hours, 15 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#26083.2073.429
Enjoyment#32472.6062.786
Overall#33702.7842.976
Presentation#39892.5392.714

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Instead of clearing blocks, your goal is to build a giant, colorful temporary tower of blocks! Uniform colors will be replaced by plain and boring stones, eventually losing you the game!

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Comments

I like the concept, just a minor detail; the orange and red look pretty similar, I sometimes couldn't tell them apart. Otherwise I feel like it has potential :)

Developer(+1)

Hi! Thank you for trying out the game, that is very good feedback! We could also have added a symbol connected to each color to make them stand out more. Definitely bringing that with us for next jam, thanks!

Submitted

Good idea, though I think It isn't really engaging for player as most of the time you can just spam Arrow Down and you will be fine. Also as someone already mentioned sometimes (or even quite offen) some pieces already contain 3 blocks of the same color. Overall I think if it would be a little more challenging so the player has to think through his moves It would be great!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for trying out the game! The idea is to build a high tower, but I wish we would've had time to implement to show the height of the tower too. Keeping the 3 colored pieces in was the only idea we came up with in time to not make it endlessly stackable without really caring of what to do.

I would've liked to give it some sort of cost for placing bricks higher up in the tower, and therefor giving the player a reason to build a more stable ground. 

Will think about it and see if we can figure out a nice update for it after the voting period. 
Thanks for your input!

Submitted

I like the idea. I think the presentation of the game could have done some more polishing, but overall really nice. A quick little improvement if you were to continue would be making it where the starting position could be random so that you cannot just kinda let them just build on top of each other.

High Score: 89

Developer

Thank you for trying out the game!
That is a very good idea and I really wish we would've thought about it too, the way we implemented the drop it would have been an easy fix, definitely adding it in after the voting period!


Nice score too! I hope you had fun with it!

Submitted

The game looks very nice

Developer

Thank you!

Good concept! I did encounter a bug where some of the tiles that came down would convert to stone because they had 3 or more of the same color so there was no amount of rotation or moving I could do to prevent it.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing the game and for your feedback!

It was actually intentional to leave that in, without it, it was just too easy. But we definitely agree that it feels a bit unfair and if we had more time we would've probably added something to regain stone slots or something similar.