Mable’s Realm

by yurgio
co-authored: @lllarso, @shanzhai
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.98
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.96
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.87
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.07
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.34
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.78
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.05
Welcome to Mable’s own little Realm.

The castle is under attack. In Mable's realm, you need to combine at least four marble-heads of the same color to summon her minions and defend the castle.

Use arrow keys to move the marbles and spacebar to rotate them.

Listen to the soundtrack here:

Theme 1:

Theme 2:

Theme 3:


Have fun and thanks for playing!
Genres: puzzle
Tools: Godot

Comments41

James Greenleaf
James Greenleaf16 Apr 2024, 03:05
Great theme, sound and graphics. Fun take on a classic genre. Well done!
DaGanglyGhoul
DaGanglyGhoul16 Apr 2024, 03:09
Very fun game! Reminds me of this one game on the Wii that I played the living hell out of.
LDJam user 316658
LDJam user 31665816 Apr 2024, 03:36
i love the combination of the falling bubble game on the left with the battle on the right! the art is so cartoony & cute too​
PromZona
PromZona16 Apr 2024, 14:18
Super nice game. Had a lot of fun playing!
paulhocker
paulhocker16 Apr 2024, 14:19
This was a very clever game. Really liked your take on the theme, and the gameplay was fun. I would have liked to have the ability to swap the marbles before i drop them, but that is just me. The artwork was superb, and I loved the user interface. Great game!
pwrs16 Apr 2024, 16:08
loved this, love the combo of Tetris style gameplay with the themed play on the right. really fun! loved the graphics, the sun was my favorite
minjutin
minjutin16 Apr 2024, 16:12
This is sooo cute and joyful, sparks positive childhood memories and made me feel all warm inside. The art style is absolute fantastic, the cutest tower defence I've played.
Trux16 Apr 2024, 16:13
What a blast! Enjoyed playing this game alot - only a shame i was a bit too focused on the "tetris" to watch the battles. Really amazing art, and the sounds added a fun element as well!
gamerjenn16 Apr 2024, 16:14
Excellent visuals and gameplay! (Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine is one of my all-time favorites :))
Escyll16 Apr 2024, 16:14
What a lovely game! The art style is so cool. Really really good job. The game is actually fun to play too!
HollowBearGames
HollowBearGames16 Apr 2024, 19:20
Awesome theme, the art style is perfectly executed imo. Really great work. The music fits super well with the theme and its fun watching the little battle play out as you get correct matches. Really interesting twist on the summoning theme.
Kseniya
Kseniya16 Apr 2024, 21:26
it's a lot of fun, the visual is funny and not standard
LDJam user 282870
LDJam user 28287016 Apr 2024, 22:25
Tetris with round heads. Nice twist with the fighting.

Nothing to add, the game is very good.
ColourArc16 Apr 2024, 22:28
Fun game with an awesome and original aesthetic. Cool take on a summoning mechanic by combining it with a matching colours game, with the different colours spawning different type of soldiers.

Only thing is, I think sometimes the enemies would get behind the place where my guys would spawn, and my guys wouldn't go back to defend my base. I also got caught a little off guard when losing pulled me straight back to the main menu, I think it would have been nice to have a simple 'you lose' screen.
zablas16 Apr 2024, 22:34
Very unusual art style. Felt like playing something back from the kindergarten ^^
Shanzhai
Shanzhai16 Apr 2024, 22:53
@colourarc Thanks for the feedback! Just between you and me: There is actually a _horrible_ lot of bugs and hacky things going on under the hood just so we'd end up with something presentable in time (the code has an actual #DONT TRY THIS AT HOME comment in it ^^"), so sadly I have to say: I know, but we had to ship anyways...

That said, we've already decided to give the game another free weekend or two for post-jam-polish. I plan to completely rewrite the puyo-puyo-code which currently is a total mess and to finish the whole autobattle-thing (which was literally thrown together in like six hours and is mostly smoke and mirrors..
ColourArc16 Apr 2024, 23:50
@Shanzai I hope I didn't come across as too critical, I did think the game was great, one of my favourites so far actually, and obviously in a higher league than my little effort. Will definitely check out the updated game!
Melissa Stodolnik
Melissa Stodolnik17 Apr 2024, 08:46
soooo cute style, very cozy game. and i really like the music
JulienLussiez
JulienLussiez17 Apr 2024, 10:41
The art style is great and the concept is fun.
I don't know how but it could be interesting to be able to have more focus on the fight because I was only focused on the game on the left and didn't have much time to see what's going on.
But overall it's a good game!
derllie
derllie17 Apr 2024, 11:16
this is so unusual, you did a good job!
Rakowu
Rakowu17 Apr 2024, 11:23
I find the music very sweet, reminds me of FF for whatever reason. It also feels very nice to combine the links and that it doesn't matter if it's in a row. The sound effects were "interesting"? xD
LDJam user 342640
LDJam user 34264017 Apr 2024, 16:58
Really really great entry with an awesome visual style, super impressed. I couldn't really tell if getting more than 4 matches made any difference, and I seemed to die even though I still had lots of dudes on the field, but the matching gameplay was fun and the aesthetics were incredible. Great job :)
F1318 Apr 2024, 01:07
What lovely sounds and art (づ ̄ 3 ̄)づ
dabper18 Apr 2024, 01:16
Fun combination of genres with a cute theme!
Aune
Aune18 Apr 2024, 07:13
Such an interesting concept! It's executed excellently, and I adore your artistic direction for both sound design and graphics. Well done!

As a suggestion for improvement (though certainly not necessary within the scope of a jam), I would recommend adding a gameplay mechanism that requires a bit more attention on the battlefield screen. For instance, allowing the player to choose unit locations could provide a nice contrast to the focus solely on the "match 3/4 view".

A strong point of your game is that no tutorial is required to play it.
Well done!
Shanzhai
Shanzhai18 Apr 2024, 07:51
@aune Thats a great idea! We're going to do a post-jam-version for more polish anyways, we'll see if we can come up with something :) Thanks for the feedback!
Joshua Miller-Pio
Joshua Miller-Pio18 Apr 2024, 17:00
Great job the game is beautiful and i ejoyed the gameplay aswell
NaPlz98
NaPlz9818 Apr 2024, 17:09
I had already seen the process of this game in the posts while the jam was going on and I was really looking forward to try it!
The art is excellent, I love it, it reminds me a lot of toy story, I don't know why haha.
The game is a lot of fun, the audio is superior xd
Jupiterintardis
Jupiterintardis18 Apr 2024, 19:33
Lovely art style and interesting mechanics.
ThinkWithGames
ThinkWithGames18 Apr 2024, 23:13
Nice art style and easy to grasp gameplay! It was nice seeing a new take on the classic "bejeweled" type of game. Maybe I didn't play long enough, but it would be nice if the game sped up/gave larger pieces as time went on to make things more difficult.
BajaTheFrog18 Apr 2024, 23:59
Couldn't get it to run on itch in browser :(
It says the page is unresponsive and doesn't load all the way.
I'm on the Arc browser (Chromium based) on Mac fwiw.
YoYoJ19 Apr 2024, 10:59
Really cute and interesting idea. The music is that touch that needed to be done :)
SStyles9319 Apr 2024, 11:00
The theme is well used, graphics are cute and I love the sound.

Just a lack of feedback but otherwise good job!
LLlarsO
LLlarsO19 Apr 2024, 11:24
SStyles93 Could you be more specific with the feedback and give examples? We want to make a Post-Jam version and we could benefit from your observations. Thanks for your comment. 🙂
Ausstein
Ausstein19 Apr 2024, 15:36
Very cute game!!
one of my favorites so far. Nice interpretation of the theme, nice artstyle, just overall job well done!!
LDJam user 374028
LDJam user 37402820 Apr 2024, 07:48
Cute graphics and music. What I didn't understand is why the game didn't end when I reduced the enemy's HP to zero, and then a new wave spawned. You should make it clearer that the game is about surviving waves, not defeating the enemy once. That's the only thing I found a bit confusing. Grats!
Thomas Gelman
Thomas Gelman20 Apr 2024, 19:01
Really solid submission! The visuals were super cute and the audio was fitting. The tetris-like gameplay summoning characters to fight for you adds a little chaos and rewards strategic and quick decision making. Well done!
LDJam user 49756
LDJam user 4975621 Apr 2024, 18:46
10/10 audio ^^ simple gameplay but it feels good. Art is pretty!
Archaeognathus
Archaeognathus2 May 2024, 20:15
Very cute artstyle with perfectly fitting sound effects... and the music :heart:
I enjoyed how simple the gameplay was at it's core, so it was very easy to just jump in. Was wondering about a bit about some of the behaviors of the characters, but I just saw your comment on the bugs. You could have convinced me that some of these things were intended features ;)
My biggest small critique would be that the game ramps up a bit fast. I often a bit too busy aligning marbles, when I really wanted to watch the battle. Guess thats the curse of a nice style. Good job :)

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