What a great surprise. One of my favorite indie games.
John Gruber
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+1 for something like this. I don’t like the way you just autostart a new game immediately. I actually never know what score I achieved because I’m not watching the score while playing. Then when the game is over, it’s gone! I don’t care if it’s a high score list, but there should at least be a Game Over screen at the end.
This game is so good and fun. Thanks for making it and improving it steadily. I have a few suggestions:
1. When you enter the Options screen, the Playdate B button should close it and go back to the game. That’s how the system “options” panel works, and I think it’s how Playtris’s in-game options screen should too. Then you can get rid of the “Continue” item at the top.
2. It wasn’t clear to me at first that Music and Sound were sliders. I suggest making them look more like the system volume control.
3. I don’t care to play with the Ghost option enabled, but I do wish there was some indication of where your piece would fall if you dropped it now. I’ve seen some Tetris games where there is a sort of underline under the game board that just shows which columns the current piece occupies.
4. Perhaps it’s just my eyesight, but I can’t see why “Big Blocks” is not the one and only size. With vertical space at a premium on Playdate, why not make the game board (and pieces) Big Block size?