Drag the cards to the board to use them to manipulate the pieces as they come down. There are left, right, and rotation cards. The cards will highlight green if they are acceptable to play, and red if they are not.
You can also choose to sacrifice a card to freeze the piece for a limited time (3 seconds). The card slot that is discarded will be out of play for awhile. It can be helpful to get the freeze time, but hurtful because you will less cards for that time. The longer the game goes, the more penalty time the discard takes to freeze the falling piece.
Known issues: HTML version- Audio play overlaps when the track speeds up (level 2, 4, 6, 8). It only lasts a couple seconds, but it can be jarring on the audio. If you plan on playing with audio, I recommend the desktop version, doesn't have that issue.
2 and 3 simultaneous line clears only cause the pieces above the highest cleared line to fall down 1 space- working on a fix, but not in time for the contest version.
Great concept! Love the marriage of these two genres, the card drag is also a nice touch, makes it feel more authentic. Ran into some bugs where pieces wouldn't fall all the way down and get stuck instead. Also, maybe the piece could fall faster and the card countdown be a little faster as well to speed up play.
Neat concept! Would be cool if you could double click a card to activate, and maybe unavailable moves would just attempt it anyways and deal with collisions? Though I think you were going for a system where if you don't have the card you need you can bail out and discard to look for it. Pretty cool game and audio!
Nice concept - the rotate card needed to come up a bit more. other than that really fun to play. Reminded me of the software Scratch but for Tetris. Great entry
Really solid entry! Agree with @petitpois that I had a real hard time getting things to happen because I'd end up with a lot of Left 4 when I really needed any sort of rotate. I don't think the discard mechanic helped me as much as I'd have liked in those situations. Nice take on the theme!
This really forces you to think a lot differently than the two genres separately. It's like, every time I dragged a card, I thought, where is my dpad and A/B buttons!?! For me, the fun didn't outlive the novelty. I got too stressed out playing it. Lol. Anyway, good job!
Nice use of the theme. Just clearing one line felt like a huge accomplishment. On my last game I scored three lines (a single and double). At times I felt like I could have used more rotation cards. I really liked the music, and how it speeds up when the stack gets higher, just like in the old GameBoy Tetris.
The blending of these two genres works surprisingly well! It's was pretty fun, although it was very difficult for me. Couldn't get many rows completed!
This is an interesting premise. I like how the player has to work within the limitations of the cards they are given. That said, I feel that to rotation cards are a bit too rare, making it difficult to play the game effectively. The audio also got very repetitive quickly. Overall, this game could use some polishing, but it shows some potential. Nice work!
There's a tiny problem though: thanks to the 3 second freeze bonus when you discard a card, you can keep cycling through your deck with the piece frozen in place until you find the card you want :)
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If you have time, check out my entry: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/golden-beak-golf :)
I rate your game, if I can give a game in my game, Witch's Escape.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape
But really fun and well done!
There's a tiny problem though: thanks to the 3 second freeze bonus when you discard a card, you can keep cycling through your deck with the piece frozen in place until you find the card you want :)