INSTIGATION by Steve Cochrane
INSTIGATION is a match-three puzzle game and Space Invaders fan fiction. Find out why they invaded Earth!
CONTROLS:
- Left and right arrows: move left or right
- Z: shift the blocks in your column up by 1 (or hold the down arrow and press Z to shift down)
- X: lift the block you're standing on, press again to set it down
(If the controls are unresponsive at first, click on the game to give it focus)
OBJECTIVE:
Match the trash blocks sent by the humans to stay alive as long as possible. Falling blocks will stun you if you're hit. A horizontal bar of blocks will fall every 10 seconds, so watch out! If any blocks are sitting above the dotted line it's Game Over.
Good luck and thanks for playing!
Game programmed with Flixel - http://flixel.org
Audio programmed with Shaun Inman's TextMate MML Bundle - http://shauninman.com/archive/2010/02/13/an_mml_bundle_for_textmate/
Personal site: http://stevecochrane.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/stevecochrane/
CONTROLS:
- Left and right arrows: move left or right
- Z: shift the blocks in your column up by 1 (or hold the down arrow and press Z to shift down)
- X: lift the block you're standing on, press again to set it down
(If the controls are unresponsive at first, click on the game to give it focus)
OBJECTIVE:
Match the trash blocks sent by the humans to stay alive as long as possible. Falling blocks will stun you if you're hit. A horizontal bar of blocks will fall every 10 seconds, so watch out! If any blocks are sitting above the dotted line it's Game Over.
Good luck and thanks for playing!
Game programmed with Flixel - http://flixel.org
Audio programmed with Shaun Inman's TextMate MML Bundle - http://shauninman.com/archive/2010/02/13/an_mml_bundle_for_textmate/
Personal site: http://stevecochrane.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/stevecochrane/
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall | 3.55 | 153 |
| Audio | 3.30 | 150 |
| Fun | 3.54 | 121 |
| Graphics | 3.26 | 348 |
| Humor | 2.60 | 375 |
| Innovation | 3.54 | 189 |
| Mood | 3.04 | 333 |
| Theme | 2.49 | 1038 |
The music is fantastic!
Overall, is a really good game with innovative gameplay and well done. The audio and graphics are engaging and fits at perfection. The bad part? Is a bit slow, but, nothing else.
Congratz for your game, and have fun!
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The idea is very nice, and the graphics/audio complemented each other well. Good work!
good work!
ps: theme?
One minor thing though: The positions of the Z and Y keys are switched on German keyboards, which made it a bit hard to press Z ;)
I'd rather have more brainy puzzle, but the game is enjoyable even so. :)
Music fit well the style.
The game is great as is. There are only a few recommendations I'd make. Combos (both in the sense of sequences greater than 3, and cascading matches) should provide some benefit. A combo mechanic that I really like is that of Kirby's Star Stacker, where temporary blocks fall after combos, allowing for greater chains, but then not persisting if there was no match. I'd also like unbounded movement speed. I felt like at times I couldn't escape from falling rows because I couldn't move fast enough.
Really nice game. Great work.