Really fun game! Has a TON of potential with different types of blocks, and the franticness of the timer getting faster and faster gave me a few laughs at trying to scramble around haha. Some feedback!
- I really enjoyed the gameplay mechanic of being able to move the blocks anywhere. Initially when you explained the concept I was a bit wary of how abusive this could be, but it ended up being really balanced with the timer putting pressure on the player. In the end I think I ended up reversing my thoughts, because it's such a different take on the match 3 formula that gives the game a really unique identity.
- Being able to pop the matching blocks at any time adds a fun layer of strategy to the game. I found myself building a hilarious mass of colors on one side of the field while working on the other side to keep the timer going.
- The artstyle is super cute! You did such a great job unifying the design of everything to make them all fit with each other. I also liked how you made the blocks have a visually distinct pattern too. I found myself relying more on the patterns than the colors haha.
- The menu system is very nice to look at. Very intuitive options and layout.
- Something I thought was a bit distracting were the B blocks having the shrinking ring. It might just be entirely me, but the ring kind of makes the initial run of the game really distracting since there's many of them on the screen at once, making it slightly visually cluttered. It also makes it a bit hard to know what ring belongs to which B block. If there was a suggestion I could make to this, it would be to have the B blocks have a meter on them instead of the ring. That way it would be easier to tell at a glance when they would go off!
- In contrast, I thought all the other visual feedback was nice! The game telling you which blocks are poppable was a very nice touch that helped me in pinches.
I managed to catch 2 bugs, albeit somewhat minor:
- This one was kind of hard to tell what happened, but there was a point in the game where I couldn't pop a chain of a decent amount of green blocks. After I popped another chain somewhere else I was able to pop the green ones. I can't recall how exactly the shape was laid out, but it was in a cross shape with a blobby part near the top left side. I don't know if this might be because my mouse wasn't picking up on my presses though. I did click it a few times and nothing happened just to check, but was able to pop another set right afterwards.
- The scrolling background in the menu seems to be distorted along where the graphic repeats itself, along the seams. It's a minor graphical thing though!
I would totally love to see this game developed like you stated in the discord server! Hearing that you have plans to add content to it makes me happy.
