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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation (visuals) | #39 | 4.056 | 4.056 |
| Theme | #41 | 4.204 | 4.204 |
| Overall | #41 | 3.963 | 3.963 |
| Concept (gameplay) | #74 | 3.630 | 3.630 |
Ranked from 54 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Nice and well designed. However, I feel that the rotation just makes control harder and does not introduce novelty into the game.
Hey, this is a cool take on the theme, and I love the characters, great touch.
This was the funniest game I've played on this jam hahaha. I loved the E's personality, he was my favorite. The art is awesome, the animations are smooth, the music and sfx fit the game very well. I just think that at the beginning it was a bit too hard, I took a while to understand how to maneuver the board correctly. Maybe if it had a longer tutorial, showing how to match one or two gems, it could help. But when I got the hang of it, I found it very fun! Good job!
I don't like match three games very much. You somehow made it different an funny. Also really apreciate the use of characters for the tutorial instead of leaving a wall of text right at the begining. The dialogues were full of character and life (and E made me smile every single time).
Great game great and great execution of the theme. Congratulations!
Fits the theme perfectly. And this was actually very fun to play. You nailed the characters as well - I loved the conversations between them. It’s nice to see them in more relaxed settings, not like in my entry. :) Loved when one of them took vacation. Great variety!
When it comes to the ideas for improvement, then I think I would prefer if the board turned more quickly and "forceful." I think it would make the whole game feel more snappy and satisfying to play. Neverthless, great entry!
Nice little bejewelled style game. I loved the characters and dialogue, very cute and funny. Good amount of challenge and gameplay but I was craving a bit more juice as a reward for getting a match. Great job though!
I had a great time playing this game !
The dialogue between the characters made me grin
Nice Game ! Very polished ! Loved the tone of the dialogues ^^
And the gameplay works very good with the theme.
Great work :)
Hey, I managed to beat the game! :D
Loved the dialogue and the gameplay was something fresh when compared to the usual match-3 games. You could always add more levels, maybe immovable blocks, funky level layouts... there are lots of possibilities. :)
Good stuff!
I'm usually not a big puzzle game fan but I definitely enjoyed this one. The two characters Q and E are so cute and the little dialogues make the game so much more worthwhile. Also the rotation is something that's actually quite challenging to wrap your head around, at least for me ^^ So its a nice challenge in comparison to some other match-3 type puzzle games. It did feel a little slow though, as Steventus put it, kind of limiting.
This is a bit of a mixed bag for me, but first:
The good:
Right off the bat, I love the characters! Hah! Well done!
Also the presentation is actually quite nice, with fitting music, sound effects, VFX and a lot of nice small polish that really livens everything up. Good going! Gameplay is very simple, albeit the tutorial leaves some room for improvement.
To improve:
I'm ultimately a bit unsure about your take on this match-3 puzzle. The rotation twist feels forced in without great 'fit' onto the rest of the match-3 puzzle and it ultimately reminds me of Bejeweled (or any match-3 puzzle game), but with limited controls.
With that said, I'm not entirely sure on what improvements to offer without suggesting you to go back to the drawing board and revisit the entire design again.
Nevertheless, great effort, especially for something done in 2 days!
Thank you for the review!
Yeah the original idea was the cursor the be a "hole" and to have the entire column of shapes above it fall downwards as you rotate, but I realized that it really wasn't working as after a few moves you always ended up moving only the outside wall of shapes, with no way to get inside. So I changed the gameplay to be this much "safer" version, which doesn't do a much with the rotating.
Thinking back on it I could have made the original version kind of work if the player could control the verticality of the cursor before rotating, to get the cursor out of the corners. I'm not sure how much that would work either, but I might try to get a version of that working after the game jam. Thanks again for playing!
A really cool spin on the usual match 3 games, great job! Only thing I'd change was maybe make the movements a little bit faster? (although I'm not sure if that's just me being impatient :') )
Love the dialogue of the characters too!
cool game idea.. combination of q,e & w,s makes it interesting
Very funny dialogs, Q and E are great characters! :) I wish there were more games making tutorials/narratives using two characters.
And game itself plays great, I like the core mechanic, you could turn this into a very nice mobile game as well if you wanted to.
Q and E are fun and nice twist on the mechanic to fit the theme.
This guys are so funny!
Wow! What a crazy and interesting way to solve a match 3 game. I was about to quit when I accidentally made a match and then I was like "Hold on a second...if a rotate here, move there, rotate, rotate, move here, then rotate, the move, the rotate, move, move....eureka!" lol
Fun twist on bejeweled!
Was much harder than i thought i would. I think the game would benefit from faster movements, both rotation and up/down.
Really liked the dialogs between the aliens. Added cute unique character.
Well done!
Great mechanic, great use of the theme, and excellent little tutorial.
I'm not used too have story in my puzzle game but why not! I wish we could play instantly instead of have to wait for the animation. Okay stuff!