I’m glad you liked the graphics! It is indeed drawn on paper and colored with alcohol markers.
I scanned them with the preview app on my iPhone, sent them to my computer with syncthing, then extracted each sprite using gimp.
This was an improvement on a previous game jam I participated in, and I was really happy with the workflow and result.
I’m also glad you were hooked. This seems like the type of game that’s only fun for certain types of people. - mathy with a lot of rules. Saturday evening I was really stressed that I wouldn’t have any game, because I had done so much bug fixing to get the base game working, and hadn’t done any art or game juice yet. The main thing I wish I had more time to add was a leaderboard, so that you could compare your score with others.
That would also require more balancing though, as I got 1800 points once by getting a black tree, then 4 whites in a row. I don’t want it to feel unfair.
Im glad you enjoyed, and your comment makes me feel that the game might really work with some more time spent on it.