Hi, I did the training but didn't understand the first level, please help!

Fun factory game with lots of features! The dragging works so so but this could be due to my poor track pad. Probably it will work best on a touch device. The only problem I can see is the lack of rewards. The black and white theme is nice but maybe too dull. I wonder if the game would be more fun if the shapes were not just squares and rectangles? By the way I only played a few levels.

What a good interpretation of theme scale and good design game!

I spend some time to take the training before play, and it is very helpful. You guys designed many features and elements in the game after all, and mechanic is awesome too!

I love strategic game and take time to think or plan. This game is really my type! 

Great jobs!

Great game. Appreciate how much you put into the tutorial to ramp up to the full on puzzles, which were also well thought out. The transition between scenes with the falling pieces is one of those small things that does a lot to polish the game. Fantastic!

God, this is so neat. It looks like a fully polished game and definitely ready to get published. Very congrats to the whole team who made this. 

It looks like you didn't had to, but if there's some feature you had to cut out due to time or other contraints, feel free to share them in my topic "The Features Cemetery" :) thank you and good job again!

"It's too easy", no, just kidding, it is super fun.

It is more like shapez than factorio to me, since it mainly challenges my geometry logics than any factory throughput stuff.

I like how i am confined in a very small space, so not just the geometry logics was challenged, but also how i need to cramp all the stuff in the space.

I'd say the levels 1-12 are like tutorials. I breezed through them with at most 1 failures, then i immediately get what's wrong with my assumptions and fix the problem. Actually quite a lot of them are simply one-shot. It means that you have spent a lot of time tuning which puzzle comes first, so that i am gently taught how to play the game, one trick at a time.

I wish i can right-click a cell to clear it, as if i am using the eraser tool.

Man, your game is very well-programmed. everything "just works".

Another nice thing to add would be the ability to skip puzzles, and/or a puzzle selector, to quickly skip to / from a puzzle.

(Ok, one last puzzle before i beat them all... Wait for it... Ya i watched the walkthrough after lv14, just to see how many levels are there. You can say i got a bit fatigue from it. Still, lv14 and lv15 are engaging enough once i get myself to challenge it.)

Ok, the game challenged my assumptions really well in the last level. While some of the previous levels got me because i wasn't familiar with the game system, lv16 was definitely one that required me to think outside the box just a bit. Although i figured it out while designing (i.e. dry-run in my head), i still got that aha moment, even if just a short while. It is good signs for a puzzle game.

Now i just wonder what more can you put into the game to make a full release. As-is? Cool but is it enough to be sold for 0.99usd? probably.

More shapes? Triangles? more dimensions in the grid? The possibilities are a lot.

I do like the factory-less approach you are taking. I feel like the throughput requirement in shapez is not adding to that game.

Oh forgot to mention: It is a very good idea to not put the expand-x and expand-y operators in my toolbelt. It makes that operation ever-so-slightly more challenging, as i would need to first expand-xy then shrink-x to produce what i wanted. Really meshes into the sim-city gameplay very well.

Very nice work! And thanks for providing video it did help to understand all the elements available!

Amazing game! Very polished and well thought. Congratulations!

Amazing puzzle game that looks great and plays even better.
Lovely puzzle design, very well built tutorial.

This should be continued after the jam to be made into a full fledged game for sure!

Great job !

This was great! Very well executed, and I had to tear myself away from it :D

It reminds me of Space Chem, which is one of my favorite puzzle games!

If I had to nitpick, I would like some hotkeys and tooltips to the tools menu. And maybe use right click for the eraser.

Well done!

This is an amazing game considering the time limit. It is already engaging from the start and the detailed tutorial.  Each level made me pause and think, but really fun to play. I love playing puzzle games. I always wanted to create one, but it was very challenging for me to come up with difficult and also reasonable puzzles. That's why I think this game did a very great job on level design and shaping simple mechanics to complicated puzzles.

The scene transition is actually interesting and creative. But I personally think the blocks fall a bit too fast,  which makes the transition too dazzling to watch on screen.

Wow, excellent game. Definitely the best game I've played for the jam so far. Tutorial is well done, concepts are easy to grasp in isolation but make for excellent puzzles in combination, and the polish is immaculate. Well done!

I only encountered one issue: when restarting the level, I had one instance where the goal node disappeared and I had to reload the level to get it to reappear.

I really don't have anything else to say -- I honestly think you should keep going with this game and try and publish it for real. I would definitely pay for a fully fledged version of this game. Bravo!

what a fantastic game! as a huge fan of shapez and factorio, this really hit home for me in all the categories. Great take on the theme, fantastic level of polish with a great tutorial, great visuals / audio and really simple mechanics translated into clever puzzles and fun gameplay. Bravo!

Really well done on this game! Going through the tutorial, I felt like there could only be so many different machines, but you just kept adding more of them! Each of them had a place, too - all of them were pretty straightforward to understand, with maybe the exception of the stacker, but I felt like it played a pretty critical role in many of the levels. Menuing was really polished (liked the level transition effect) and most of the audio and art were consistent to the theme of your game. I liked that the tutorial was interactive, it communicated the core concepts very effectively.

Not a whole lot to say otherwise - as placement of the machines is on a click-and-drag effect, it would be nice to see them attached to the mouse cursor, just so that you can be sure of what you are putting onto the tiles. I found in a few instances I would start placing down conveyers when I meant to place down a machine.

Very well done, best of luck in the jam and on your future games!

Feels good to be a Certified Block Shop Operator. I really like how polished the game feels, it has a clear color palette and style.

I think the puzzles are paced well, maybe the difficulty could ramp up a little faster, but it's okay as is. The last 2 or 3 puzzles are quite challenging and fun. The tutorial expained the basics very well and I understood how to play immediately after completing it.

I think in games of this genre it's important to have a level select screen so you can skip puzzles that you got stuck on and try different ones. Even in a game jam, not everyone is equally good in solving puzzles, but if people were able to skip 1 or 2 levels, they would see more of the game before rating it...

Another idea is adding hotkeys for placing blocks and especially for turning delete mode on and off.

Great job making Block Shop! Good luck with your future projects!

Wow, this game made me think and analyze. I loved it. Congrats!!! The best I've seen so far in the game jam :D 

Wow, scaling and squishing makes this way more complex than I thought.
Great job! (but tbh I only played until level 10, 1 am is not a good time for puzzle games, but ill check it out again later)

This is so interesting! What a great job!
I have some advice for you:

1. Change the icons on the left side and use the same block you see in the game (it is easier to understand the meaning and will become more consistent).

2. You could add a drag animation (a ghost block) because I didn't understand this mechanic at first.

3. It is strange that the action blocks also have a color (this does not help perhaps).

4. I would add an icon to help people distinguish the start and exit blocks the color sometimes is not enough (especially for those with vision problems).

Otherwise it is really a nice game, congratulations!

It's an epic game for a month's worth of development. It feels like it would make an excellent mobile game. Getting the controls down took a little while, but the training helped with this. The puzzles are engaging and get more challenging as you go along further. As others have mentioned, I can see this as a complete game on steam or mobile.