MIROH
On this legit NES/Famicom game, you need to survive as the Minotaur in a random maze. The king Polyo-Minos not only locked you here, but he keeps sending some weird polyominos, cluttering the maze. At least he sends some fruits along with those blocks...
Update 1.0.1 (2023-10-05): fixed gamebreaking bug where player would keep playing after dying.
Update 2.0.0 (2023-10-11, POST-JAM version):
- Better help screen
- Web and standalone NES ROM display different buttons to avoid confusion
- Better polyomino controls: up for hard drop, hold left/right/down for repeated movement
- More predefined, semi-fixed mazes (is "No maze" a maze?)
- Preview of the next 2 polyominos
- Polyominos are chosen from a randomized bag instead of being purely random
- Polyominos spawn and drop faster with higher scores (you "level up" every 50 points)
- Many other assorted fixes
Update 2.0.1 (2023-10-11, POST-JAM version):
- Pause screen (allow to resume or quit the game)
- Hard drop now drops harder
Version selector is based on @badcop's JamPack
Manual Leaderboard™ (*)
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(* sorry, I forgot to take note of other people's scores, so not all people who played are here)
Update 1.0.1 (2023-10-05): fixed gamebreaking bug where player would keep playing after dying.
Update 2.0.0 (2023-10-11, POST-JAM version):
- Better help screen
- Web and standalone NES ROM display different buttons to avoid confusion
- Better polyomino controls: up for hard drop, hold left/right/down for repeated movement
- More predefined, semi-fixed mazes (is "No maze" a maze?)
- Preview of the next 2 polyominos
- Polyominos are chosen from a randomized bag instead of being purely random
- Polyominos spawn and drop faster with higher scores (you "level up" every 50 points)
- Many other assorted fixes
Update 2.0.1 (2023-10-11, POST-JAM version):
- Pause screen (allow to resume or quit the game)
- Hard drop now drops harder
Version selector is based on @badcop's JamPack
Manual Leaderboard™ (*)
====
| Player | Score |
|---|---|
| Jimbly | 297 |
| PomoTheDog | 288 |
| LittleDoctorGames | 186 |
| coleslawski | 182 |
| branquelo | 172 |
| yndajas | 164 |
| badcop | 154 |
| ategondev | 154 |
| heykevinbarrios | 147 |
| natano | 133 |
| empty5013 | 132 |
| itsBoats | 113 |
| SirAeron | 112 |
| Victor Perotto Pioner | 105 |
| icylava_ | 105 |
| Honest Dan | 78 |
| kuviman | 65 |
| alexrosegames | 64 |
| RookRules | 43 |
| TimBeaudet | 33 |
Tags: #arcade, #homebrew, #nes (nintendo entertainment system), #nes rom, #pixel art, #retro, #tetris
Genres: puzzle
Comments45
AluminumFool3 Oct 2023, 05:35
This was such a fun spin to Tetris. I love the maze idea along with it. It really fits the theme. I also think the art is very cute. I think the controls on the keyboard at times were a little awkward, but a fun play. Nice job on the game :)
Mascoll3 Oct 2023, 09:05
The love-child of pacman and tetris. I love it!
Some nice thought behind the palette choices and fine spritework!
Some nice thought behind the palette choices and fine spritework!
Euler Moises3 Oct 2023, 13:50
Como sempre um ótimo trabalho!
Você está ficando cada vez melhor nos joguinhos de nintendinho.
A única crítica que tenho é que as peças descem muito rápido quando apertamos pra baixo. Eu acostumei a dar uma acelerada nas minhas jogadas com essa mecânica do Tetris, mas aqui não funcionou. Elas já aparecem lá em baixo.
Parabéns pelo jogo!
Você está ficando cada vez melhor nos joguinhos de nintendinho.
A única crítica que tenho é que as peças descem muito rápido quando apertamos pra baixo. Eu acostumei a dar uma acelerada nas minhas jogadas com essa mecânica do Tetris, mas aqui não funcionou. Elas já aparecem lá em baixo.
Parabéns pelo jogo!
Jesse J. Jones3 Oct 2023, 14:39
This game is so clever! I loved that it's an actual NES game, that's so neat! Really loved the concept :)
Bauke Regnerus3 Oct 2023, 15:47
It's really awesome you took two completely different genres and combined them to something completely new. I needed some time to get used to managing two tings at the same time. Love the NES aesthetics. Very original, great job.
Andreadbx3 Oct 2023, 19:09
Impressive as usual, legit NES game with intresting mechanics!
TheBookSnail3 Oct 2023, 21:26
procedural generated maze?! music/sfx were spot on. i kept forgetting how to spin :ohno:
Vulkaara3 Oct 2023, 23:54
Saw someone streaming it and decided to give it a play! Absolutely fantastic game, incredibly impressive choice of engine and smooth gameplay making for one of my favorite picks so far. No critiques,
Got a "error windows.localstorage getter forbidden in a sandboxed document without the "allow same origin" flag." after tabbing out, didn't impact gameplay.
Got a "error windows.localstorage getter forbidden in a sandboxed document without the "allow same origin" flag." after tabbing out, didn't impact gameplay.
Rincs4 Oct 2023, 02:12
I get too focused on the tetris aspect and keep dying. Oh well xD Someday I'll do better than 72
Strato4 Oct 2023, 02:26
Honestly one of the best submissions I've played, and it being playable on nes makes it all the more impressive. Such a clever idea that I'm surprised I haven't seen it done before. The art is also really nice - good use of the nes palette.
Gorglomux4 Oct 2023, 07:24
What a fantastic feat! Making a nes game in 72 hours, really ?
The game is beautiful and the controls are very intuitive, amazing work !
The game is beautiful and the controls are very intuitive, amazing work !
Milan88904 Oct 2023, 08:36
Reallz nice idea and execution! Love the art and music.
XRy4 Oct 2023, 15:01
Great use of limited space, really amplifies the pressure from tetris by adding another part outside the tower building to have to focus on too!
LDJam user 2615385 Oct 2023, 03:00
Super fun game. I really enjoyed it and the level of polish was great too. Awesome work!
Bongard225 Oct 2023, 03:31
Really fun! I loved the split attention aspect of the game. Played on stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1942871170?t=0h18m16s
robobarbie5 Oct 2023, 04:16
The most shameful tetris plays of my life. 10/10
JohnCoffee5 Oct 2023, 14:55
great game. "New in the Old" is almost a theme of its own.
LDJam user 2736265 Oct 2023, 15:34
Nice entry! Loved the changing maps! And Tetris/mazes was a great idea! Too bad I'm horrible at both of those! XD
Lunicrous5 Oct 2023, 19:19
I am just too bad for this :sweat_smile: but great combination of two basic ideas making it super hard and innovative.
Ategon5 Oct 2023, 22:33
Thanks for submitting the game to the stream! If you wanted to watch it again in the future heres the vod timestamped to your game
Victor Perotto Pioner6 Oct 2023, 00:43
Se me falassem uma semana atrás que eu estaria jogando um jogo misturando gameplay de pac-man, com tetris e um jogo de sobrevivência eu diria que era loucura, mas essa combinação insanamente diferente combinou totalmente, meus parabéns, tudo no jogo se encaixa perfeitamente, tanto com o tema, quanto com o estilo de jogo, a música retro com os gráficos e a gameplay, tudo, realmente incrível!
Obs(Meu score pessoal)
Obs(Meu score pessoal)
Ethan G6 Oct 2023, 03:01
I loved your take on the theme! Managing the two systems was so much fun and caused me to think about what I was doing, I found it wasn't exactly clear that the blocks hurt me but that might just be me, really nicely done!
Wendel Scardua6 Oct 2023, 08:40
@ethan-g but the blocks don't hurt you, you only lose by hunger (only if the board is filled and you can't place more blocks the hunger bar would fill faster to end the game sooner). Are you thinking it hurts because of the flicker? Because the flicker is there just to circumvent a hardware limitation - the NES can't show more than 8 8x8 sprites on a single scanline. So if I don't flicker, some of then would be actually invisible.
Krassenstein6 Oct 2023, 17:18
Thanks for letting me play this! Excellent job!
Here's the VOD on YouTube to watch the gameplay, just skip to your chapter on the video!
Here's the VOD on YouTube to watch the gameplay, just skip to your chapter on the video!
braktheman7 Oct 2023, 01:53
Really addictive game. Looks great, feels responsive, love that it flat out works as an NES game. The mashup of genres works surprisingly well. Fantastic job.
3mpty7 Oct 2023, 10:13
Really cool mixture of games that works pretty well but I do think the maze and the polyominoes needed to interrelate slightly more. But it's a lot of fun to play and I love the art + music.
The fact it should run on real hardware is so cool, great work :)
The fact it should run on real hardware is so cool, great work :)
Honest Dan7 Oct 2023, 12:05
I really enjoyed this! Having to balance the two games was interesting, though it felt a bit turn based switching from one to another. I feel it'd be interesting if the tetrino pieces could have interacted with the minotaur while falling. I wonder too if the amount you move could have impacted how fast the hunger rises? really liked that you chose the minotaur theming, it suited great and I liked the character :)
I score 78!
I score 78!
Arthurds7 Oct 2023, 21:52
yndajas8 Oct 2023, 00:53
Great expansion of the Tetris genre! Took a little while to get used to the controls to avoid accidentally messing things up, but when I did it became very satisfying and addictive. I love the extra puzzle element of trying to avoid blocking your maze path. And the graphics and audio are perfect for the NES style
I had a little trouble reading the controls page - I think the lack of real descenders and ascenders in the font and the clustering of inputs was a little confusing. One other thing I'd have liked to have seen is modern Tetris quality of life stuff like pressing up to skip a tetromino to the bottom, and then it would be nice for the down button to move the tetrominos down a little bit slower unless you hold it down (I accidentally pushed it down too far a few times - usually when switching between minotaur and tetrominos)
But other than those very minor gripes, a really, really enjoyable entry that I'd love to see developed further!
Managed to get 164 🎉
I had a little trouble reading the controls page - I think the lack of real descenders and ascenders in the font and the clustering of inputs was a little confusing. One other thing I'd have liked to have seen is modern Tetris quality of life stuff like pressing up to skip a tetromino to the bottom, and then it would be nice for the down button to move the tetrominos down a little bit slower unless you hold it down (I accidentally pushed it down too far a few times - usually when switching between minotaur and tetrominos)
But other than those very minor gripes, a really, really enjoyable entry that I'd love to see developed further!
Managed to get 164 🎉
RicardoBusta8 Oct 2023, 14:38
Wow, I liked everything about this game. The audio, the graphics and the gameplay mechanics. Really well done how tetris and survival combined together.
ColeSlaughter9 Oct 2023, 17:47
Thanks for submitting your game to stream!
Of course Pomo had to go back and beat my high score. :stuck_out_tongue:
Such a well-realized idea, this is probably one of my favorites of yours! Great job. :smile:
Of course Pomo had to go back and beat my high score. :stuck_out_tongue:
Such a well-realized idea, this is probably one of my favorites of yours! Great job. :smile:
Little Doctor Games9 Oct 2023, 17:56
Had a great time playing this on stream! The addition of bigger tetris pieces really messes with you, and having to plan ahead to make sure you will have a path through the maze is a great mechanic. Nice work!
Ategon10 Oct 2023, 14:18
For the leaderboard
Jimbly10 Oct 2023, 23:44
HTML emulator doesn't seem to accept controller input :(. Tried it in Nestopia and got "Unsupported or malformed mapper" when loading :(. Similar error in Nester. Nesticle95 didn't run (why do I have so many old NES emulators installed?). Finally seemed to work in FCEUX =).
This was really brilliant! I loved having to balance building up for a big combo but blocking off my own space to move around, that felt really good. At first I thought that the falling blocks would hurt me, and this was exacerbated by the flickering of the block/character when overlapped, but I quickly realized that was likely just NES sprite flickering, not actual feedback. My best score: 297 (second attempt). (edit: oh, sweet, that's top of the leaderboard!)
This was really brilliant! I loved having to balance building up for a big combo but blocking off my own space to move around, that felt really good. At first I thought that the falling blocks would hurt me, and this was exacerbated by the flickering of the block/character when overlapped, but I quickly realized that was likely just NES sprite flickering, not actual feedback. My best score: 297 (second attempt). (edit: oh, sweet, that's top of the leaderboard!)
Natano12 Oct 2023, 02:00
my record lol
I didn't expect to be so addicted to a game made in 3 days, what a good surprise. I loved the game, at first it seems simple and not very innovative, but when you play it shows what it really is. The soundtrack is very good, the game is challenging, changing between pieces and characters is difficult but it's a great mechanic, you feel like you're in a mix of Pacman and Tetris that makes you want to try more and more ways to survive. Great game, congratulations!!
I didn't expect to be so addicted to a game made in 3 days, what a good surprise. I loved the game, at first it seems simple and not very innovative, but when you play it shows what it really is. The soundtrack is very good, the game is challenging, changing between pieces and characters is difficult but it's a great mechanic, you feel like you're in a mix of Pacman and Tetris that makes you want to try more and more ways to survive. Great game, congratulations!!
Branquelo12 Oct 2023, 18:09
Cara, que jogo divertido e viciante. Gostei de mais de como ele foi construído, a dificuldade é muito boa e a mistura de você ter que se mover constantemente, gerar a fome, e ainda ter que jogar um Tetris ao mesmo tempo, ao mesmo tempo que é estressante, é divertido. Parabéns!
LDJam user 25042613 Oct 2023, 03:45
great postjam changes! managed 293 on new version (in the same run i accidentally trapped myself too) xD
i think it would be dope if the apple blinks a bit before it disappears, there was a couple times im just 4 centimeters away and it despawns right before i get it lmao
overall very fun game, and clever use of theme!
LDJam user 35265213 Oct 2023, 11:26
Lovely graphics, and addicting gameplay. I consider it damn impressive that a game this solid was made for the NES in just 72h.
LDJam user 27785114 Oct 2023, 08:01
I love this kind of game developed for an old gaming platform, it's an amazing challenge. Normally I'd play it with the emulator on my almighty nds, but it runs black screen on the nesds. I had to play it in the browser.
Great game. The combination of mazes and tetris is very creative. For a nes game it's pretty good.
Great game. The combination of mazes and tetris is very creative. For a nes game it's pretty good.
moonlightbomber14 Oct 2023, 23:03
Nice. Another NES game.
TPace14 Oct 2023, 23:24
I love games mixing genres, and this was just one of those jam pearls you keep playing later. Muito bom, parabéns!!
LDJam user 20600117 Oct 2023, 03:07
Interesting mix of tetris and maze. But I don't know if it works very well in the long term in gameplay. I don't think it's very fun, but technically it was very well done for a jam
alexrose18 Oct 2023, 13:29
oh! ping me on this because I have my mister now, I am busy atm finally rating all the games I played but I will have another go on my fpga later
Wendel Scardua21 Oct 2023, 14:07
@alexrose ping! I'm not sure if it *will* work on MiSTer but it probably should; I tried looking it up and apparently it does support the mapper I'm using (mapper 028)
I love the overall aesthetic choices and simple, yet clever concept--nicely done!