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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Concept | #21 | 3.613 | 3.613 |
| Presentation | #29 | 3.581 | 3.581 |
| Enjoyment | #31 | 3.258 | 3.258 |
| Overall | #38 | 3.298 | 3.298 |
| Use of the Limitation | #70 | 2.742 | 2.742 |
Ranked from 31 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Software used
Phaser, vscode, gulp, piskel, ffmpeg, audacious
Use of the limitation
To keep the menace at bay, you must use your own molecules. I just had a day, so it may be buggy but I wanted to show the concept.
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0 just a lot of coffee in one day
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A nice idea and good music!
Very creative game. Lots of originality - presented in an arcade look which I think suits this a lot. Music makes me feel like a kid again.
Fun game!
I generally liked this, it was fun and I could see this in an arcade machine. I just wish there was an arrow pointing in the direction that the block was going to fall and that the cells somehow settled to the edges whenever I cleared out something beneath them. But I get that this was made in a few days and you might have meant to have either. It's a fun arcade-y game!
Although i also didn't really see how well it related to the theme...
Hey thanks for playing! As commented in the description and also below the it’s about avoiding the death of a cell. Anyway the rules always say that the topic is just inspirational and the limit is the important part: for me it follows the limitation in the concept of a cell that depends on molecules (proteins, lipids, etc.) to help in the metabolic process. So you depend on your health (what you eat and reaches the cell) and your help to metabolise to save the cell.
I generally liked this, it was fun and I could see this in an arcade machine. I just wish there was an arrow pointing in the direction that the block was going to fall and that the cells somehow settled to the edges whenever I cleared out something beneath them. But I get that this was made in a few days and you might have meant to have either. It's a fun arcade-y game!
i really enjoyed it, although a few times the cells didnt work right when i lined it up, very good game though, music was nice, one thing i wish is that you can hold the arrow key down.
Hey thanks for playing, I know that there are bugs (easy to fix but now I can’t update) because I didn’t have as much tima as I wanted. I had to do the whole thing in one day but even if it’s buggy I wanted to show the concept.
I liked it! The music is great! I love the simple colors and art style.
It is really fun, as well as a bit of stressing in the good way. Although it doesn't follow the limitation (at least of what I've seen), it's very solid to have been made in a single day! Good job! :D
Hey thanks for playing. For me it follows the limitation in the concept of a cell that depends on molecules (proteins, lipids, etc.) to help in the metabolic process. So you depend on your health (what you eat and reaches the cell) and your help to metabolise to save the cell.
Oh, right! I wasn't thinking of the cell contents themselves, very true
a LOT of fun - and I have enough trouble with Tetris on one axis, so this...
the music POPS!
Smart way to implement the limitation. Although buggy it was really fun to play and this could probably become something bigger if you continue it, possibly
Very interesting submission for the jam
Sometimes things would change colours, or just pass through things, and the fast-drop seemed to just attach to things at random. I’m not sure how much of this is bug and how much is intentional design feature.
Also it doesn’t scale itself nicely to the window size, which meant I couldn’t actually see the entire screen at once.
Every ten seconds the cell evolves and adds more elements in empty spots. There may be bugs anyway, because I didn’t have much time but at least I wanted to show the concept.
i did note the changes every ten seconds, but was often left with ghost-blocks, and non-empty spaces were being overwritten as well
also i expected placing a piece between two same-colour blobs to clear it all away as like a big combo but no, it just takes away a few pieces, so i’m realizing i’m actually not sure at all what i was supposed to be doing
Very interesting game :), the sounds could use maybe pitching differences when they play so it's a little varied. The concept is great.
Marvelous:)
If there's enough time, this could be 4 way tetris
Neat idea and cute sfx!
Cool entry! as mentioned in the description its a bit buggy hehe, but overall I enjoyed it! Something that I noted tho was that it was very unclear if I was making mistakes or scoring well. What might help for any score based games like this you make in the future is have a small text thing popup saying how much you scored with any given play. It was very cool to see someone take cell death in such a unique direction. Great work!
I like the colors and art used. I wish there were an easier way to tell which way I am dropping the block (I know I can hold a direction and drop it). Also like the idea of an omni-directional matching game.
The drop goes to the last direction you moved with the arrows. Once you get that you can play super fast. Thanks for playing, it has bugs because I didn’t have enough time, but I wanted to show the concept.
I like the block placing, and the timer in the background!
The health doesn't make sense to me, and takes a long time to deplete. This makes the game not have any sense of urgency.
I feel like I would never lose if there were no bugs, so the difficulty should ramp up faster and you should have much less of a buffer before defeat.
I like the music and the art!
The health is related to the empty spaces in the cell. As explained on the game page, when the empty spaces go below 80, the cell collapses and it’s a game over state. Also if the x:12, y: 12 position is covered it’s a game over. And yeah, there are bugs because I didn’t have as much time as I wanted, but at least I wanted to show the concept. After all it’s a short jam. Thanks for trying it!