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Block the Snake's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #1241 | 3.660 | 3.660 |
| Enjoyment | #2592 | 2.840 | 2.840 |
| Overall | #2658 | 3.033 | 3.033 |
| Presentation | #3815 | 2.600 | 2.600 |
Ranked from 50 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?
I make snake game. In my game, our task is to "arrange the obstacles" to prevent the snake from growing
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?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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Lovely presentation
Congrats on your entry ＾ｖ＾. I was able to score 175! It can become a very fun mobile game.
Very interesting idea.
The mouse desync (on WebGL at least) makes things a bit hard but not too bad.
I found it a bit weird that the snake had no issues going through it's own body after a deadend, maybe it could reward the player with some bonus points, or maybe even some special blocks? Currently, it seems that a player can just place blocks as fast as they can and try to create a maze asap. What do you think about adding a timer for refreshing the blocks? That would limit the speedrunning-type of gameplay, you could then give out some powerful blocks to player when the snake hits itself to reward the player for strategic planning.
Your idea is great, I was also planning to add a timer for blocks but not enough time.
Keeping the snake from going through its body is an algorithmic problem to keep it from making smart moves so it doesn't get stuck and I still haven't solved it :<
Thanks for your opinion.
Cool idea, trying to outsmart the snake is fun!
very cool concept!
Quite an interesting concept, but I had a problem with disassembling some blocks
It is a little hard to play, but idea is awesome! Snake could be slower, and "dot" blocks are too small, maybe removing them might help to the game.
Nice concept but the placement of pieces is janky, is it a bug or a feature ? who knows? who cares ? the game is fun !
Very much enjoyed creating block-prisons around the food. Clear concept well-executed.
Really creative concept although I had trouble snapping the blocks to the grid as the blocks would not sync to the mouse making it hard to put the block where I wanted it. But great idea!
This is a really good concept!
Concept is really cool. Building system and snake's obstacle detection were on point. Some grid snapping feature for the blocks would help this game a lot.
Thanks for your comments, I also plan to add that feature in the future to improve the playing experience.
Another reversed snake that isn't what I expected at all but also somehow exactly what I needed!
Cool concept!
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it.
Interesting idea, however the placement of pieces is very janky. Dragging only works if you are on the piece, not the box, as you drag the piece desyncs from your mouse's position, sometimes it will just refuse to place the piece even if you aren't blocking the path to the fruit or anything, in general there is a lot to fix there. UI is barebones and there is very little in terms of feedback.
As a base concept though there is definitely something there, it would be nice to see it revisited in the future.
Thanks for your opinion. I will fix them in the future. The piece will be rejected if you place it too close to the snake or if it blocks the path between the snake and the food. I will add them to the description.
I realized you couldn't block the path or place on top of the snake, but occasionally I couldn't place pieces even when those conditions weren't met.
Maybe because you put it near the snake. The radius around the snake is 2 cells. Or it could be a setting error in the game. I will review and correct in the future. Thank you very much.
Cool idea. Some rough edges (placing the pieces was finicky, and the poison fruit didn't seem to actually work), but it's a decent base that I could see building up into a solid game.
Thanks for your opinion. I will change poison to make it work better next time.
It's fun to do base building with an algorithmic snake!
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it.
Great job finishing the jam! This is nicely done for being so new to Unity - and thank you for including a web version! If you work on a post-jam version, I might suggest preventing the snake from looping back on itself, since that isn't allowed in most versions of Snake. I really like your take on the theme, and the ability to place level geometry in real time is definitely a fun and interesting mechanic. Good stuff all around!
Thank you for appreciating my work and suggesting the idea of preventing the snake from looping back on itself. I'm thrilled that you enjoyed how I applied the theme and the level geometry placement mechanic. Your positive feedback is a great motivation for me!
Enjoyed the game and idea, as other comment has mentioned in the web version the block placing was odd.
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it. It seems like I might have set up some parameter incorrectly, causing the block placement to behave oddly. Thank you for pointing that out.
I genuinely had a lot of fun with that! The placement of the blocks in the WebGL version was a bit funky but It was fun!
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it.