Shift the tiles around and and match them up. Soko Match is a cross between Sokoban and a Match-3 game. You can match 3 or more tiles in a row or column with the same color or number. Can you get to 15 matches?
An enjoyable, but difficult puzzle game. Reminded me a lot of Threes, but obviously completely different in mechanics. When I started I made a few matches without realising what I'd done, which led to a bit of confusion as to why things kept changing. I still managed to win though!
Really well done and something I'd like to see developed further for mobile. :)
It has a really good potential to be a hit like Threes, but it lacks some audio for now (it's mostly for this reason that I enjoyed Threes). But it has the smooth, the colors.. basically everything else! So yeah, I hope you will keep working on it :) If you need any music, I could give you a hand!
I was a bit confused by the rules, having both numbers and colors, as well as what spawned the immovable blocks. Maybe I just need more tutorial levels though. Liked it, still! :)
When I matched a dozen and realized that some tiles were blocked or would be shifted as a side-effect of my plan to line up three, I thought to myself: "I hate this game" and "I have to finish". I felt compelled! If you continue to design this gem, sometimes dice flipped over and I didn't see why in time. Did I match 3 of the same number? I was only looking for color. Sometimes a tile turned into a blocker. What causes that?
I got to 30 matches before I got pretty much totally blocked in. Well done! As a side note I tended to gravitate towards colour matches and pretty much ignored the symbols but that's probably because that's where my brain is wired to focus. It's good that you have a variety of ways to match.
Seems like a great start to what could be an awesome mobile puzzler. I beat the game but didn't feel like I exactly knew what I was doing all the time or why certain things happened - immovable blocks appeared for example. I also ended up only aiming for colour matching, my brain didn't seem to be able to process multiple matching criteria simultaneously! Overall a very polished, promising entry that you should definitely develop further.
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Freank21 Apr 2016, 17:01
Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35. Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free) So we can include also your game in the video ;) p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description
@Freank: thanks for the offer! I'm very happy for you to feature Soko Match in any video, but unfortunately I won't have the time to create and maintain a game page on your site, at least while Soko Match is in such an early experimental phase. Sorry!
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blubberquark22 Apr 2016, 08:07
I really love the minimalist graphics and the polished animation. The difficulty was not too great or too small for a jam game.
I don't know how you could keep on increasing the difficulty and add a score attack mode, but that would really add replay value. Maybe a hard mode could have more columns and rows. Also the complete lack of audio feedback holds the game back a tiny bit.
Very smooth, I like the bit of exploration in the beginning - you don't tell the user what to do, just suggest, it's well done. The art and color palette is great as well.
Really nice puzzler. It felt a bit too random sometimes since you could get some high matches while trying to go for another target you had in mind (like 123, but happened to get 444 on the way) but I think that with more time and some level design it could do pretty well. Perhaps introducing gravity/collapse could spice it up...
Very nice puzzler - great to have tutorials at the beginning (not all prioritize this in jams). As others have noted - there were some instances where I started very many chain reactions and it were a bit confusing.
Really lovely graphics. I included it in my video compilation series of Ludum Dare games, if you’d like to check them out :) https://youtu.be/Q_baWrdQ2o4
Thanks for all the great feedback everyone! I have some plans to come back to this game in the future and I'll post something here to let everyone know :)
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We would play much (levels? bigger area?)
(My best is 21)
Really well done and something I'd like to see developed further for mobile. :)
Great Work.
As a side note I tended to gravitate towards colour matches and pretty much ignored the symbols but that's probably because that's where my brain is wired to focus. It's good that you have a variety of ways to match.
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description
I don't know how you could keep on increasing the difficulty and add a score attack mode, but that would really add replay value. Maybe a hard mode could have more columns and rows. Also the complete lack of audio feedback holds the game back a tiny bit.
Really well done, thanks for sharing!
nice job!