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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #12 | 4.304 | 4.304 |
| Gameplay | #32 | 3.696 | 3.696 |
| Innovation | #47 | 3.543 | 3.543 |
| Overall | #49 | 3.539 | 3.539 |
| Audio | #99 | 3.196 | 3.196 |
| Graphics | #224 | 2.957 | 2.957 |
Ranked from 46 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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GitHub repository url
https://github.com/fdadeau/GameDevJSJam2025
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Nice little puzzler!
Cool idea and great use of the theme!
Such a unique puzzle game!
Cool concept — simple and smooth to control! Relaxing vibe with solid puzzle design, great job!
The concept is great, simple and to the point. It's very well executed. I'm a really fan and impress by the way you do it. I just go to read the code and you have a far different way to made it than I thought. The 3d cube in div that's brilliant. I try to make 3d from scratch in canvas but I never succeed to make something good. Incredible job. I've a lot to learn from your code. And not only for making game. Thank you.
Thank you very much. Your comment made my day :-)
i loved the game concept it fits the theme so much
Fun Puzzle! We made a puzzle game too.
Interesting game. The most balanced game of all games about balance)
Simple and elegant puzzle game. The music is charming, maybe the background and colors needs a little more sparkling.
Congrats on making so many puzzles! I haven't tried the Masters of Balance one yet.
It is a little uneasy that the jauges only go in one direction, so you have to look at the board to understand which side it's tilting. You put the rotation sliders just below these jauges but I dont really think they relate (jauges are a gameplay indication, while sliders are visual settings). The fact that you loose when there's too much imbalance from both axis, instead of the maximum imbalance from one axis isn't easily readable from the jauges neither.
Good brain exercise though, well done making it 100% native JS:
Thank you for your feeedback. You’re right about the gauges that should go both ways (up and down) that’s a bug, now corrected on the github version.
Love the soothing music. but levels are a bit confusing. Great work man
Cool game! I like it!
Relaxing game with calming music. Great.
Cool design and puzzles! I wish I can rotate the board using mouse
I like this game! Good level design, tricky puzzles, relaxing audio. Good work!
Fun and relaxing. It's simple, but it works amazingly well.
I loved working out how each blocks needs to be on the board to get in to balance. The music is so calming as well.
Would love if you could go check out my game, Load it up!
I expected to see something like that for this topic :).
It's cool to see 3D! It's also cool to have a fairly large and detailed tutorial, as well as a large number of levels - did you think them through yourself, or maybe somehow generated programmatically?
Hints are a cool feature, although it's more fun to play without them :).
It's also nice to see the progress in the menu and be able to choose any level.
After the last level, the "next" button doesn't work, maybe some kind of ending was expected?
The music is calm, suitable!
It was fun, congratulations!
Thank you for your feedback! I simply forgot to remove the ‘next’ button on the last puzzle ;-) [I’ll update the Github source]. And yes, the levels were generated programmatically, using the very same function that computes the best solution for the hint :-)
I guessed it might be related to the best move hint :) - good job!
Very intuitive gameplay at first, and then the UI guides you through some levels. Great job!
If this is not about balance I don't know what it is!
Cool puzzle game and relaxing music, well done!