Digging?

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.08
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.15
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.87
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.73
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.40
Avoid the falling blocks while racking up points by breaking larger grouping of blocks(minimum group size of 2). Watch out for the grid filling up

Controls
arrow keys to move
space to clear

A game made with DragonRuby
The Web version runs worse than any of the downloaded versions so if you want the full experience be sure to download the game!
Genres: puzzle

Comments17

Trusty
Trusty27 Apr 2021, 16:18
Fun concept I feel would work well as a mobile game. I liked trying to time digging groups of blocks while the same one was falling next to it and obliterating it before gravity took it away
binroot
binroot27 Apr 2021, 16:18
Great puzzle game once I understood the rules! Interesting that you let the player "jump up" so high - that saved my ass a couple times :laughing:
azaliya27 Apr 2021, 16:19
It's fun and I think I played over 10 times! Thank you for game)
Yword
Yword27 Apr 2021, 16:25
Really unique idea and my best score is 177. Nice works! Maybe it will be more challenging if the blocks will drop faster?
Seskon
Seskon27 Apr 2021, 16:28
I like the overall concept of the game. The random spawning can make it a bit frustrating tho. Maybe you could add a way to push falling blocks to give the player a bit more control. The art fits well. :)
burczy27 Apr 2021, 17:31
Game fells a little bit to simplistic. Overall premise is interesting but it could use little bit more polish.
kfischer-okarin
kfischer-okarin28 Apr 2021, 11:37
Nice classic match-3 alike puzzle mechanic. The right side seemed a bit empty, so maybe centering everything and adding some more UI elements would be nice :) Good job!
windfall89029 Apr 2021, 16:33
Its a shame the layout and UI are so bare because this is a really great spin on matching games.
Moving from 'inside' the game physics is a really great touch, and I think it was a very cool feeling to weave into and out of the falling blocks looking for combos as they passed by.

The sprites are very funny too, really loved the face.

I stress this on _every_ jam game pretty much, but put controls into the UI in a text box! Its _so worth it_ no matter how trivial they seem. With some UI work and some cute GBC-like sound effects this would be a pretty charming matching game.

Great work getting a solo project out the door in such a short jam!
monninen
monninen29 Apr 2021, 16:46
Graphics looks good, and the idea is fun. Only problem is the speed of the game. If the game was for example 25% faster, it would be more addicting, responsive and fun. There would be more challenge but movement would be smoother and more responsive.
thedarkmagi
thedarkmagiauthor29 Apr 2021, 19:19
@windfall890 Yeah my game really didn't come together till the last day so a lot of the love it needed to polish it up like improved UI and controls just didn't fit in the amount of time I had left. I had issues getting audio running in the webgl build so I had to cut including the audio Thanks for the feedback!
LDJam user 245161
LDJam user 24516129 Apr 2021, 22:25
I liked this a lot! I was happy to see a Wario's Woods-like in the jam. It's really satisfying to zap a block as it's falling, and only matches up with its neighbors for a second. My only complaint was that I did spend time just waiting around for blocks to fall, because there wasn't any other way for me to "clean up" the grid after all pairs have been eliminated.
zoarfy
zoarfy29 Apr 2021, 22:26
Fun game - the art, especially of the guys is hilarious. It's satisfying to play once the difficulty ramps up a bit. Congrats on finishing and submitting.
Dom De Re30 Apr 2021, 00:06
Nice game :) aside from the UI it's a very functional take on match 3, refreshing :)
BoxedMeatRevolution
BoxedMeatRevolution30 Apr 2021, 01:56
i really like this game. So adictive. I played it in browser and it is a bit laggy, but still totally worthed. Great job.
MacDoom
MacDoom30 Apr 2021, 07:11
Nice action puzzle game! Had to play preety fast to gather some points. At first I didn't saw the applealing but just commiting to get score led me challenge my reflexes. Fun and original twist to the puzzle genre.
Solah
Solah1 May 2021, 14:51
Really good idea to have mixed a match-3 game with some platforming/dodging. It would have been great to add some sound design, but the game is already pretty solid, well done!
Caveman54
Caveman542 May 2021, 14:12
It was a simple and fun game. Great entry!

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