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Finland x South Korea Jam (GNOJ #5)

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Submitted by Exca — 2 days, 15 hours before the deadline
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Credits
Henri Sarasvirta

Gameplay video
https://youtu.be/HWsn88cKrCA

Tools used
Pixijs, typescript, webgl2

Development hours
10

Length of the jam
80

Theme
The well known block game is very competitive and the starting talks about demoscene and competitiveness inspired me to create a competitive game using raymarching, a techinique very often used in demoscene. And the controls are inverted so that the mechanic isn't exactly the same as the original inspiration.

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jds0404Submitted2 years ago

I loved the background that seemed to be sucked in. And I thought it was novel in that the floor moved. However, this part needs some explanation because you don't know when the block first falls.

But it was a really fun game. :]

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Catch Souls
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AaKoo2 years ago

I really like the background thingy (what is it called?)! I have a faint memory that I have seen similar type of Tetris variant years back... Hmm... Cannot remember where, though.

Why exactly did you pick raymarching, btw? :)

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ExcaDeveloper2 years ago

Had been doing raymarching for few weeks before jam to do the demo for Assembly creative tech and was kinda in the mode for that :)

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lrdazrlSubmitted2 years ago

Brilliant twist of the original mechanics! It does not only mess with the mind of the player used to the original, but also actually affects the movement possibilities and therefore the tactical elements of the game.

One thing that I would have hoped for would have been keyboard controls, because playing with the mouse made the game unnecessarily difficult. But I guess this game is intended for mobile devices anyway. Also, the graphic button did not work at least for me.

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Finnish - Korean - Finnish
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ExcaDeveloper2 years ago

There are keyboard controls. You might first need to click the game area to get keyboard into focus.

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lrdazrlSubmitted2 years ago (2 edits)

I though it might be something like that and tried that. I also clicked the window multiple times when playing with the mouse, but then when trying to use keyboard, it did not seem to do anything... Well maybe I have to test again. There have been some issues with my keyboard lately so that could be the reason if the game works properly for everyone else.

EDIT: Yeah, I tried again, and this time it worked with no problems. Guess the problem was on my end. Being able to use the keyboard definitely made it more fun to play.

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