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A jam submission

Break It DownView game page

Submitted by SkyanSam (@SkyanSam) — 2 hours, 29 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#1783.9113.911
Overall#3903.7783.778
Originality#5833.7783.778
Presentation#8953.6443.644

Ranked from 45 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Objects that spawn in the game move towards eachother eventually forming connections. Your goal is to break these connections before the objects eventually collide. These objects are "joined together".

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam

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Comments

This is an extremely fun and simple game. And gives me strong Tetris vibes. The only thing I would love to see is more experimentation in mechanics that you have already established. If you are going to introduce more mechanics then I don't think you should change the current one. I really do feel like you have perfectly nailed the balance with it. Even though it goes infinite it is extremely fun.

And lastly I want to see more Tetris vibes. Give me those extremely rewarding dopamine shots when I break a connection of 6+.

Submitted

I usually think of accidents as things like spilling my drink down my trousers. So, this is a really cool accident with very fun gameplay. I gave it a few tries and ended up with a highscore of 332.

Submitted

Awesome, love it.  This game is so elegant and fun.  The only thing I can think of would be to maybe have a more obvious death animation.  Excellent job.

Submitted

This game was fun. Simple, little game.
At first, I thought that this concept fits the theme "unjoined" but not "joined". But after few minutes of playing, I really stick with it. Loved it!]
I think it's a good future mobile game. Keep going! :)

Fun little game. It's satisfying to chain together destroyed objects, my high score was 168. 

Tiny criticism: when the game resets, so does the control method 

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Oh I didn't catch that, thanks for pointing that out. I'll make the control method variable static next time so that way it lasts throughout sessions. I can see why pressing M to change to arrow keys each time can be pretty annoying. Sorry about that, I'm glad you enjoyed though! :D

No problem, I ended up just using the mouse anyway, just a bit of feedback :)

Submitted

Saw this on stream today and thought it looked like fun. I wasn't wrong! This is a great, on the edge of your seat, action game! Marvelous job!

Developer(+1)

Thank you! Out of curiosity which stream was it?

Submitted (3 edits) (+1)

Stream 4! 1:10!

Submitted(+1)

Really really satisfying. I love the music and the visuals. I think it would be fun if the game gradually sped up, both for the squares and for the player :)

Submitted

simple, yet enjoyable; a phrase that could sum up this whole experience.

Submitted

This is so much fun to play, I liked the unique controls (i.e. following the mouse instead of keys) and the sound and visual design made it feel really old-school-arcade like! I'm terrible at it but other than that it's excellent

Submitted

This was refreshingly simple, I picked it up in seconds! I especially like the combo mechanic, that cutting one connection breaks all subsequent ones. In a way, this game is like ours, but the reverse!

Submitted

Cool arcade game. I like that the squares move towards each other before the connection forms, so it's possible to predict where one will be. A cool feature would be a dash: higher risk of crashing but a reward of a speed boost.

Submitted

I like this simple take on the theme.  I think this could be expanded into a really fun arcade-style game where you get combos and score multipliers for breaking multiple blocks apart with one move.  Great work!

Submitted

This is a really really good submission! I love the juicyness of it all, and the way chains of linked enemies explode is really cool. 


One thing I think would make it that much better would be if score was based on breaking chains, and for every link in a chain you broke all at once, the score you got from that chain was multiplied. That would incentivize risk/reward behavior of allowing long chains to form for a higher score

Submitted

The music is a little too loud but aside from that, it's great! A fun arcadey game that uses the GameJam theme really well! :)

Submitted

Very fun game, could see myself playing this for a long time if it had leaderboards.

Developer(+1)

I actually tried implementing leaderboards using lootlocker but there was issues so unfortunately I had to remove it. I may add a leaderboard system in the future. Glad you enjoyed it! :D

Submitted

I had a fun time with this! Like the juice in the sfx and visuals.

Submitted

Great concept and love the music!

Submitted

Really great and interesting concept,

I love the amount of juice and polish in the gameplay !

Simple but functionnal art and really cool 8-bit music !

I managed to do 96 on first try :p