"Hey! Thanks for the deep dive into the game mechanics. Your feedback on the 'piece reset' at 5k points is spot on—I never thought about it as a potential strategic annoyance until now. I love the idea of replacing that reset with a 'power-up' piece; it sounds like a perfect way to add depth rather than frustration. Also, noted on the UI/Language settings—I'll work on making that smoother in the next update. Really appreciate you hitting that high score, and stay tuned for the changes!"
13 days ago(+1)
If you're doing a power-up piece, one idea I had was a piece that removes instead of adding.
There's a lot of games that have like bombs, but this game has the square 3x3 blocks, so blowing up a square area would be a little too strong.
So my first idea was it's a random L or S tetris piece (so it's consistently 4 blocks in a weird shape), and it's holes instead of blocks. No limits on where you can place it. It turns the area you place it on into empty space.
But I think that's a little too simple. Too good at cleaning up messy areas with many small holes. So maybe it's better to have a piece that replaces blocks with holes and holes with blocks. At worst you just play it somewhere with no pieces and it works like a normal piece.
An inversion piece like that should probably have very simple shapes, though. Boxes and lines. So you don't need to think super hard about how to use it.
"This is brilliant! The 'Inversion Piece' concept is exactly the kind of strategic layer the game needs. I love the idea of turning blocks to holes and holes to blocks—it keeps the complexity high without making it a 'too-easy' clear-out button. Using simple shapes (lines/boxes) for it is a smart design choice to keep the flow fast. I’m definitely going to prototype this for the next update. You just turned a frustration point into a core mechanic. Thanks for the brainpower!"
11 days ago(+1)
Played a bit more.
The backgrounds are pretty and varied. The blocks are a bit boring, but fine (the high-effort way to make these look good would be to go out and take photographs of tiles to use). The menus don't really have a lot of personality. The Liquid Glass aesthetic can be a little hard to see against some backgrounds.
Sound:
The response to doing removing multiple lines at once is always the same, kinda long sound clip for removing the same amount of lines, which can feel a bit grating.
I like some of the music, but some of it feels too intense for what the game is. Maybe you can measure somehow how dramatic the board is and decide the music based on that.
When you move to a new stage, a new track starts. This can feel a bit jarring, particularly when it jumps from a calm part of one track to a dramatic part of another track, or vice versa. E.g. the track that starts with very loud violin-like sound. Maybe look at how other games do stage or phase transitions that affect the music. It's not something I've thought hard about.
