really satisfying game, especially when chaining together explosions! I like all the visual and sound effects when clicking on the numbers, it almost feels like digital bubble wrap HAHA
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #7 | 3.694 | 3.694 |
| Polish | #8 | 4.118 | 4.118 |
| Innovation | #8 | 3.471 | 3.471 |
| Fun | #10 | 3.529 | 3.529 |
| Theme Interpretation | #10 | 3.824 | 3.824 |
| Visual/Audio Design | #16 | 3.529 | 3.529 |
Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
What new engine or tool(s) did you use?
Godot
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1 year ago(+1)
Thank you very much. Yes, i expected that the look of the game could associate it easily with these typical "mobile-games", what's usually not the most liked kind of games in jams :-D But thought for a first try with godot, that kind of game should be not too difficult and doable in time.
No worries: You are not the only one who has problems with understanding the rules at first. Definitely have to revise that part. But very happy, that you finally solved it and that the game got anyhow pretty positive feedback so far :-)
Thank you very much for the kind words. Yes, i actually just wanted to make a simple WebGL game, but was surprised, that Godot out of the box also made it playable on touchscreens. Because of all that positive feedback so far, indeed could plan to release as mobile game. (Even if that was actually not the plan at all for a simple first-try project of godot^^)
Great to hear. Honestly a very addictive little gem. The only thing I'd check is if there is meant to be a fail state if one of the box's can't be opened because it's been isolated from all other areas. Only had it happen once but I feel like if the end goal requires all 8 opened, then you should have either a fail state or have it effect the score when all the others are opened.
1 year ago(+1)
Thank you for the feedback, that's helpful.
Yes, I'm aware of this, and it is kind of "handled", but definitely not the smartest solution from users view... Currently, if you are in such a state, you have to click on them (what costs 10 coins each time, because it's the start of a new turn) until you don't have enough to start a new turn, and game ends. So you kind of "in the end" are "punished" because you see your coins decreasing (and because of the incrementing turns also the score) if not played well enough before :-D
And additionally on the other side, if you have revealed all 8 gems, you get points for each one of them, as well as an extra (huge) bonus, for solving it completely.
But you are right, if i try to identify such states internally as "fail-states", could do the same logic automatically and directly show the game-over screen, what should be less confusing for players. Thank you :-)
Thank you. Yes, you can click each one only once per turn. If you want to hit it multiple times (or with a higher number), you have wait for the next turn and/or try to approaches from a more fitting neighbor or let it explode from them.
I know, rules are a bit complex at the beginning (have to think about make them easier to understand), but as soon as you got them, there are actually different strategies (but i by myself am also still not fully aware, which one is the best, even after playing 100s of rounds during development ^^)
1 year ago(+1)
Thank you very much. Just watched it. That was a really helpful feedback!
Seems i should revise my rules a bit, maybe even a small tutorial would help or so. Guess the main problem, which confused you the most, was actually only, that you've put a bit too much focus on trying to match the numbers instead of the shapes, colors and borders^^
But glad that you at least played it through :-)
1 year ago(+1)
Thank you very much. Yes, that's what i hoped to mainly achieve, just this "relaxed" feeling during playing, glad that it seems to work :-)
1 year ago(+1)
Thank you. Glad to hear that, because was not sure, if fonts are readable (especially on smaller devices) and extra made them a bit larger.
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