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Raya206 days ago(+1)

This definitely feels better than the original build, the blocks fall much more often and there's no annoying blocks which just won't go away because of bad rng and the difficulty actually comes from reacting to the blocks falling.

However, this does kinda work against itself because the blocks fall at an almost constant speed throughout the game. I got till 20000 points but it never felt like the challenge of the game increased. Maybe increasing speed or lowering the pause you get after every clear dynamically might be the way to go? Or having rare double-drops and triple-drops which increase in chance as the game goes on?

Other than that, this feels super satisfying to play. Compared to the original version, which felt like a game jam demo, this feels much more polished and ready to be shipped.

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Chase of Bass205 days ago (2 edits) (+1)

Oh cool!!   Thank you for trying it out and letting me know!  Very awesome of you!  

Admittedly I was being stubborn about making all drops occur on rhythm with the music so eventually that tops out to it dropping 8/8 which is the same block dropping frequency as holding the drop button.   So it basically goes from dropping blocks at 2/8 to 8/8 by 10k points or so where it tops out.

I suppose I could raise the bpm speed at that point but I think I like what you were saying about rare double drops and triple drops a lot better!  

That makes me want to experiment with block dropping patterns as the difficulty progresses.  Also 20000 nice score!!  I had a similar experience but have been playing tetris attack/pokemon puzzle league for a long time so figured that was a factor.  I think I might need to make the block number balancing a little tougher too.  

Anyway, thank you so much for your kind words, insight, and awesome super useful feedback -very appreciated!

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Raya204 days ago(+1)

Oooooh is the music sync why the pause time is so long sometimes? I'm ngl I didn't notice the blocks dropping to the beat and... I still kinda don't. I definitely think the dropping speed should be increased, increasing the bpm might make the game feel more tense too.

I've played tetris attack once and I was really bad at it (but I'm good at tetris) so I think there's a different skill set required here.

Giving feedback is no problem, it's the least I could do to help a game I think has ton of potential.

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Chase of Bass202 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

It's subtle -i should probably make it more obvious and the pause was to reward combo chains but as the game got easier they became less necessary,  I went ahead and dropped the combo freeze in this latest update and instead added occasional frozen block drops that have the same short freeze effect.   I upped the difficulty balance by about 1/3 and the speed maxes out at double now too -definitely feels more challenging/ fun i think/hope!  Anyway thank you again!! :D

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Raya202 days ago

this feels SO MUCH BETTER. It finally brings back that chaotic feel I wanted from the original 5000 drop. I do think it gets too chaotic too fast tho. Is the difficulty based on the score? Because gaining points is getting really easy when it's too fast, probably accelerating the difficulty curve. I was at around 2000 I'm not sure and then everything got chaotic and by the time I looked back at the points screen and I was at 100,000 all of a sudden. I also think the new block types are a brilliant idea. Getting a freeze within the chaos feels really satisfying.

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