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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Innovation | #21 | 3.354 | 3.750 |
| Completeness | #32 | 3.205 | 3.583 |
| Overall | #34 | 3.106 | 3.472 |
| Quality | #47 | 2.758 | 3.083 |
Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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My head hurts. In a good way, of course! It took some trial and error to set up the controls in a way that made sense to me, but after that it felt completely natural (my scheme is qaz|123|edc, on an ortho-linear keyboard). Wise decision to allow rebinding! :)
It feels like there is a lot more depth to the game’s mechanic that is way beyond my skill level. I struggle to play on easy, but I bet once my fingers get used to the controls and my brain makes the right connections, I will be able to pull off sick stunts, chain multiple pokes together, and build combos. Takes a lot of practice though! I’ll definitely be playing this game again! :)
What a great idea and excellent execution. Top game!
Ambitious and innovative idea for a block puzzler, love that you brought this to life! Granted, the controls require that you learn some muscle memory, but that slight awkwardness feels at home for a game that could run on a nokia :)
I find the idea brilliant, but I seem to be too inexperienced to coordinate the three arms. I rated your game as if I would have had this experience. ;-) It's such a refreshing idea of an old concept. Perhaps it would be easier if you added controls: left arm - 7, 4, 1; down arm - 8, 5, 2; and right arm - 9, 6, 3. Just as an idea...
thank you! You can try that yourself, if you want – the main menu has a key-rebind submenu.
I tried a few different control schemes (qwe|zxc|asd, ewq|zxc|asd, 1qa|zxc|de3) and finally settled on the current one (qwa|zxc|dse). A friend of mine suggested qaz|zxc|cde which was kinda wild – overlapping keys! asz|wse|xsd is hard to play but kinda fun, as S extends all the arms at once. I’m curious to hear if anyone discovers other weird or intuitive controls.
I tried your suggestion (1qa|2ws|de3) for a bit – it’s interesting! I found it a bit difficult to control multiple arms at once, but that’s probably just due to my playing too many hours on the “default” controls :)
Very fun game, good graphics and simple and addictive mechanics. I will definitely come back here to play a little more calmly later.
This would probably be so much easier to play on an actual 3310 keypad! Innovative though - I think the idea's got legs! Nice job
I like the concept and the unique idea.
A lot of controls But when one get used to them, gameplay is fun
really creative concept, I like it a lot.
love the frantic few seconds it takes me to look down at my controls and figure out which button does what I want
can imagine some high-level strats. like coordinating two hands at the same time. but I'm not good enough yet for that lol