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Wow, this is so polished for a game jam! Everything from the gameplay to the sound effects to the juice. I love the endless possibilities of synergies when combining the powers, I had some pretty crazy combos and managed to get 150k on one of my playthroughs (which probably isn't that high, but was better than I had been doing haha). And... I couldn't stop playing. I caught the "just one more time" bug pretty bad.

My only thought is I would love some kind of tutorial. Obviously, nothing that explains every card or anything like that. More about the scoring. I will say I'm still mildly confused about what the multiplier is multiplying, or if destroying cards gives me points or just makes the game last longer, or really how I am getting points aside from the cards that explicitly add points. Is each round worth a number of points and then the multiplier is applied to that number plus the cards that give you points in the round? I'm guessing that's what it is, and  if so, I don't think stating that takes anything away from the discovery of the game, but does give players who have no idea what's going on (aka me) a good starting point. 

Either way, I really enjoyed it. Great job!

Yeah 150k is already good in my books. It's pretty close to my personal record which is around 250k. I did have one 3-4 mil run before I had implemented the leaderboards but the scoring might have been a bit different back then too. Oh and I did pull out one 700k run which I ruined back to zero by a dumb miss play with those minus score skills. And I honestly have no idea how the current #1 spot has achieved that 1 billion score. 🤯

The multiplier multiplies all the score gains. By default you only get score when you "level up" and the amount is based on the empty squares on the board. I didn't feel like explaining this was really necessary. I kinda hate trying to explain things too much cause usually players really don't want to read too much. Probably cause I as a gamer really dislike too lengthy and gameplay interrupting tutorials myself. But I guess throwing a quick message explaining it shortly (like the initial placement messages etc) wouldn't have hurt if timed correctly.

And yeah, transforms and destroys don't do anything else really (on their own). Of course they can be enhanced by some skills to also score or increase multiplier and so on. So destroy basically starts off just like that, making more room to keep playing longer (and having more empty space for bigger scoring too when leveling up).

Thanks for the feedback! ❤️

Haha that's fair! I am definitely an over-analytical kind of player. Maybe not even a tutorial, but a menu option for "How Scoring Works" or whatever for the nerds like me. Again, great game!