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Hey itch.io! I made this game over the weekend. It's 2048, but presented as kind of a cross between a few genres I like: it's a little bit slots-y, it's got incremental game stuff where you get to build a city, and there's a bouncy soundtrack if you get 1700 points.

I thought really hard about the overall feel of the game and tried to use a variety of subtle interactions to encourage players to make moves quickly and impulsively. For instance, the crowd of people at the bottom of the screen breaks off and becomes disuniform-looking if you stop playing, and you'll notice that the interaction sounds are synced to the beat, meaning that getting a run of eighth notes requires playing super fast. 

Using nudge-based features to change a game's feel without touching its mechanics is kind of my game design fixation right now, and it was a lot of fun applying that line of thought to a well-known and widely-beloved puzzle game. I used to binge on slot machine design articles and I try to bring a lot of that stuff to the games I build, even though they're all benign and MTX-free.

I hope some of you take a look at it! It's playable here on Itch, and if you click through you'll also get a link to my earlier Rubik's cube slot machine too!