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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #1907 | 3.476 | 3.476 |
| Enjoyment | #1938 | 3.190 | 3.190 |
| Overall | #2172 | 3.270 | 3.270 |
| Creativity | #2953 | 3.143 | 3.143 |
Ranked from 21 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?
Placed blocks will randomly re-scale, increasing and decreasing in size. (Also you're building up, one could interpret that as scale-ish... and you're *building*, so. Built, scale)
Development Time
96 hours
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The bottom furniture decided to become smaller and toppled my tower 😢
It looks and feels very good. Cool game!
I ADORE this entry! I would guess I've spent the most time playing it of any other entry I've rated so far. It has a lot of similarities to the game Tricky Towers (which I love), but you've definitely put your own spin on the Tetris-adjacent genre. I thought the parts scaling up/down worked really well, and all the parts were really cute!
I think for the most part the goal and controls were clear, and things functioned well. If I had to give you some notes:
Anyway, awesome entry. Love a simple game done well. :)
Thank you very much, I'm so happy you enjoyed it! :)
The game should only end if you make it to the sixth checkpoint line, and then it displays how long you took and a restart button, so if that isn't what happened it had some sort of bug, sorry about that :(
Hmmm I don't think I made it that far up, but maybe? Good to know! The pieces were moving pretty fast by that point, but i thought i was only around the 3rd or 4th line.
Nice game !
This is great. The number of times that you think you're doing well, and then the sofa doubles in size and throws everything into disarray is comical. It's a little too exactly what its like to pack and move.
I really like the simplistic art style and the chill vibes. I do feel that the game is a little bit too focused on the random component. Perhaps an indicator or border that flashes around a block to say that it will expand? It would make it feel a little bit less random. Also, maybe having a loose condition or further incentives for progressing (though, perhaps I didn't encounter them as the game was a little bit too difficult for me). My last comment is that perhaps instead of having a 90 degree turn, having the arrow keys rotate the block slightly for better precision placement?
However, as it is, this game is really fun and incredibly chill too play. Excellent job!
I really like the simplistic art style and the chill vibes. I do feel that the game is a little bit too focused on the random component. Perhaps an indicator or border that flashes around a block to say that it will expand? It would make it feel a little bit less random. Also, maybe having a loose condition or further incentives for progressing (though, perhaps I didn't encounter them as the game was a little bit too difficult for me). My last comment is that perhaps instead of having a 90 degree turn, having the arrow keys rotate the block slightly for better precision placement?
However, as it is, this game is really fun and incredibly chill too play. Excellent job!
I had fun watching my creations crumble before me.
The amount of times I almost got to the top was infuriating. 11/10
In all seriousness this was a great take on the theme. Really nice job.
This one does a lot with very little. Really good vibe with the music and the art style on the furniture, super minimalist but it works well. I also enjoyed the sounds. They help emphasize the pain of when your tower collapses. I will say the furniture suddenly expanding and contracting was a bit bizarre but it's an interesting idea.
Loved every second of it. The visuals are super nice, the physics are great. The unpredictability of pieces shrinking or growing was the only thing I would change. But, dude, that nice camera sliding up and down so smoothly, the bodies stacking so nicely :'). Were you using RigidBodies for the pieces? Anyways, congratulations on your submission!
Thank you so much for playing, I'm glad you liked it! And thank you for appreciating that camera because it was kind of a pain lol
The pieces are all Rigidbodies, I got super lucky that they mostly behaved how I wanted them to
Oh, once you get your hands dirty trying to make some good camera work, you just cannot not appreciate when it's so well made. Good to hear that RigidBodies weren't a pain for you. Can't say the same :') lol
This game is excellent, and I'd love to see it fleshed out into a full release!
Thank you! :)
It was a fun and funny game! Also liked the nice "vibes" the music and art gave.
Although funny, I think the resizing was a bit too random and took away from any potential skill or strategy.
Good job!
I agree, I never quite figured out how I wanted to handle the resizing, and I ran out of time to tinker with it more. Thank you very much for playing!
the comedy value of this mechanic is incredible
besides the obvious "oh, of course that piece resized at the worst possible moment" bits, the best moments are probably when your stack survives something absurd. but honorable mention goes to the purple bookshelf(?) that just kept getting smaller
sadly, without any control over the resizing, the generic physics engine as it stands seems too spongy for there to be any longevity to this game's playability as it stands: it's just Tricky Towers but every couple seconds someone walks up and knocks it over, which wears off after a few minutes. but i still tried earnestly for a while, so it must be doing something right!
Thank you very much for playing! I never was totally happy with how the resizing got integrated, it sounds like it worked about as well as I expected. Kinda fun but kinda frustrating
(And I'm happy that piece still reads as a bookshelf after I had to basically remove all the books from the sprite because the details were too small)
I kinda love this game because even when you got a perfect tower, a random offscreen tile gets smaller and ruins everything :D
Indeed! Thanks for playing :)