The game stacking is honestly a very interesting concept I have never seen before. The game is super interesting! In the beginning I did not understand how to play the game. This was frustrating. But as I tried random controls I was able to figure out the game.
The game works as the player being a small magenta square with a tiny pink square inside. You do not know this explicitly. Blocks begin to fall from the top of the screen. These boxes are random colors and in random places horizontally. Some fall to the bottom of the screen while others fall a little above it. They are randomly dispersed horizontally though. Your tiny box navigates the game by trying to jump on the boxes and travel upwards. You use the A, D, W keys to go left right and jump. This also wasn’t explicitly stated. I am pretty sure the goal of the game is to make it to the top but I never was able to reach this point. I made it far up but never to the top. Another thing the player must consider is a box hitting them. A player cannot have a box fall on their box. There is a score at the top as well. I am still a little unsure of what that keeps track of. Does it keep a score of how many times you get to the top? I made it pretty far up and it never kept score of that so I am assuming that is what it means.
Other than the confusion I think this game is a super cool concept. Playing a game to climb stacking boxes without them falling on you sounds like a super fun interesting concept. I also loved how colorful and exciting the game was. It has great potential to be a game in the future.
This game is fun but incredibly frustrating. This is due to the randomness of the game. Because the blocks of the game fall randomly at any point on the screen it makes it super difficult to do well. In the beginning, some of the blocks don’t even hit the bottom of the screen. Because of this, your box can’t even reach the boxes, even by jumping. This makes it hard to start the game. If the user can’t reach the boxes they have to wait for another box to push it further. This only happens sometimes but because the height is random that is frustrating. The other frustrating part is the horizontal location of boxes. Sometimes you will have traveled high enough but a box is coming to land on your box horizontally. I understand this is a challenge of the game but sometimes there is nowhere to go on the screen. This makes you fall to the bottom. And once you are at the bottom it is nearly impossible to climb back up because of the amount of boxes on top of you.
To improve this game there are a few things I would do. Although randomness is a major part of the game I would probably reduce the amount of it. Because everything is random, the random outcomes often make the game very difficult to play. Having restrictions on height of blocks or horizontal location relative to previous blocks would be great. Another change I would make would be to add instructions to the game. The lack of instructions makes the game super hard to learn how to play. It should be explicit which keys are the control and which thing the player is controlling on the screen. I would also find it useful to have a restart button.