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by MikeBellika 801 days ago
Not a bad score on your first try!

1. I actually agree, but I think it might be a bit confusing for beginners. I've considered speeding up animations for combos, or adding a setting for animation speed.

2. I've thought about this a lot but I think it's too late to implement now. My wife and I are already competing for highscores, so if I change it now I'll have a grumpy wife!

3. I've only played bejeweled, so I don't haven't seen this mechanic in practice. Might be fun to implement but it would have to be a different game mode.

4. I have added sliding now.

Thank you for playing and good feedback!

2 comments

I discovered you'd added the sliding while I was in the middle of a game and muscle memory made me slide - I did a little double take and then test slide on the next one!

I've now done the Add to Home Screen thing on my iPhone - will definitely be playing this a lot. I've managed to get up to 46k now, but I think I need to rethink my strategies as I'm playing it like a mix of Threes and Zoo Keeper - there's actually more to think about here than on those.

As a side note, I once came up with this exact game concept in a dream but never got around to trying it out to see if it would be fun. Glad you did, because it's definitely fun.

Nice game! 49,600 after a few tries.

Agreed with the above though, I think it might be a bit more strategic if combos were awarded non-linearly,

(Although, again, the game is pretty good as it is)