Ludum Dare #42compo

Stacked Odds

by josh-riley

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.90

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.08

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.70

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.23

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.27

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Create columns adding up to 21 as long as you can. Run out of space on a column and it will be removed from the game!

Controls

W/Up Arrow
A/Left Arrow
S/Down Arrow
D/Right Arrow
Escape - Pause
Space - Add a new block

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So, I started over twice over the course of this one, but I think it turned out alright. If you want to check out the games I abandoned, I'm going to try and included the solutions in my source code upload. Let me know if you have any bugs or performance issues. I planned to do some optimizing toward the end of the project, but it seems to run ok on my machine, at least.

Tags: #21, #josh-riley, #keyboard-only, #math, #numbers, #relaxing, #stacked-odds

Genres: puzzle

Tools: Unity

Comments12

M8rix13 Aug 2018, 00:12

Steep learning curve. I often ended up just spamming all directions in hope of getting points. Guess I need to invest some time in learning the mechanincs. Besides that, the game felt really really good and everything seemed to have been done with care!

jka13 Aug 2018, 00:18

Really nice! Love the overall style and how well it plays. Also, thanks for adding an easy mode! ;) Only side note I can think off is that it's a little hard to follow (at least for me), with so many columns and numbers in there. But it could also be that I'm not that great with numbers. :smile:

LaytanL_13 Aug 2018, 01:18

Cool game! very hard to play properly though i, just like @m8rix was spamming my arrows in hopes of points. It was very good on the visuals like sprites and particles. Looked very polished. Good implementation of the theme too. Great job overal!

MissAlpha13 Aug 2018, 10:36

Nice graphics and lovely gameplay! Easy to pick up

RED_IRON17 Aug 2018, 04:28

i like graphics

SoyerTek17 Aug 2018, 04:36

I was a bit confused at first, but i really enjoyed playing your game. great job!

WiredOverload17 Aug 2018, 04:47

Nice game although I do agree that the only way to play is to spam left or right as it is too fast to find a best move. This was also one of the few games that had a fully polished instruction screen as well as a difficulty selector. Nice Job!

Alan Lu23 Aug 2018, 04:16

Nicely done! I don't think I can math that hard though >_>

CaptainChoones23 Aug 2018, 12:47

Feedback:

- It’s easy to play
- Nice graphics
- Good idea
- Great concept

Overall pretty good

Zirrrus25 Aug 2018, 09:02

Really cool concept, but wow, am I not able to actually play it properly. My brain just can't process the sheer number of...numbers on the screen at any time, so I was just sliding rows around until something seemed to happen. I'm a bit sleepy right now but I think I could have used a board with fewer rows in general.
Good work, no matter how scrambled my brain feels right now!

AnlaXix28 Aug 2018, 02:49

Not my kind of game but this one was funny to play, great job ;)

cptalbertwesker28 Aug 2018, 17:40

I found it a bit difficult to get my head around on the controls, but shortly got used to it, I liked that you had the current totals at the top of the screen to help with knowing when to move numbers. Really nice instructions too.

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