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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| How well did the game make use of diversifiers? | #6 | 3.857 | 3.857 |
| How well does the game fit the themes? | #8 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #15 | 3.381 | 3.381 |
| How much do you enjoy the game overall? | #22 | 3.214 | 3.214 |
| Gameplay | #24 | 3.214 | 3.214 |
| Audio | #24 | 2.929 | 2.929 |
| Visuals | #31 | 3.071 | 3.071 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How much time was taken?
Yep!
Use of theme?
My original concept came out of trying to fit all three themes together. Chain Reactions and Negative Feedback Loops both reminded me of how populations function. In a predator-prey population, a sudden surge in prey leads to a sudden surge in predators, but simultaneously that then cycles back and limits the sizes of both populations. Starting from there, I quickly realized this sort of gameplay dynamic felt a lot like match-3 games like Bejewled. So since I also wanted to put a twist on a classic game for the third theme, I leaned into that. The twist is that the game board is something you're platforming on, instead of the usual off-screen observer role from those games.
Use of diversifiers?
Upcoming Postmortem Video
Main Menu
WASD/IJKL/QZSD/Arrow Key compatibility
Color Blind tested using the link on the jam site (made sure the tiles were fairly distinguishable, and gave them different patterns in case)
Violence is not the answer
Working on editing the theme of this page now :)
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I don't know, I just kept moving and pressing Enter and it worked for a long time :/
For the rest, interesting idea.
I like it, but just running around and spamming Space seems to work too well.
A little on the easy side but a neat concept
You could make it harder by not letting players change single or double blocks
Hi!
A pretty nice game! I like the colorful graphics, however the text screens could be made better lol.
It's pretty spammable though, I can just spam space bar in front of me and keep clearing the tiles. The audio also bugs out sometimes, I hear a tick after every once a while, idk if it's just me or the bgm. Still pretty fun tho
I got to over 3000 points
Yeah text screens were very last minute lol. Good catch on those other issues. And congrats on the hi-score!
Nice game, but can't move after restart on browser version =(
Yeah, sorry, I realized there was a bug right after I ran out of time to keep working on it lol. You can refresh the browser page and it should work though.
No worries! Every bug happens on jam stays on jam xD
Really cool! Could use some limit on how fast you can spam space, but other than that awesome idea.
Thanks for checking it out! Yeah, I wish I could have found a way to make it more challenging lol