{"author_link":"\/users\/gunturtle","author_name":"Gunturtle","author_uid":1010594,"comments":[{"author_name":"mcccclean","author_uid":1001131,"time":"2018-08-13T17:30:34Z","epoch":1534181434,"modified":1534181434,"text":"Nice work! What a neat little puzzler! Those up arrows are a real pain! I've been really enjoying seeing what the other pico-8ers have come up with. Great work with the sfx ramping up across a combo, it's really satisfying; the background pattern's gorgeous too.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Rombus","author_uid":"1012366","time":"2018-08-14T00:03:10Z","epoch":1534204990,"modified":1534204990,"text":"This is way harder than tetris! haha :D \n\nGot me hooked, congrats on the entry!  ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"loveapplegames","author_uid":"1006791","time":"2018-08-18T14:20:49Z","epoch":1534602049,"modified":1534602049,"text":"Great idea, addicting gameplay!  Great title music, why no music during gameplay?  The gameplay area could have been bigger.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"lonewookie","author_uid":"1003065","time":"2018-08-19T03:24:44Z","epoch":1534649084,"modified":1534649084,"text":"I really like this! I love falling block puzzle games. I love the background animation, sound and block designs. Admittedly I'm not sure if the mechanics completed clicked for me. It only tries to create a loop if it enters from the side? I think I figured it out like 75% but still lost a lot. Well done!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Luis Giron","author_uid":1000586,"time":"2018-08-31T00:14:08Z","epoch":1535674448,"modified":1535674448,"text":"I love this! a great puzzle game, a bit hard but so addictive, cool entry!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DDRKirbyISQ","author_uid":"1001883","time":"2018-08-31T03:12:12Z","epoch":1535685132,"modified":1535685132,"text":"Nice!  This is actually pretty fun, and really twists your brain around for a while until you get the hang of it.  Got up to a score of 150 or so as a high score, though I wish it would at least show you what your ending score was before resetting the game...?\n\nIn any case, after some trial and error I figured putting right arrows on the left and left arrows on the right essentially just narrowed the playing field and was always a \"safe\" placement, so I ended up going with that strategy, to some nice success.  Pretty simple game, could use a little more like music during gameplay of course, but it's a great start!  Very fun.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BBApps","author_uid":1100725,"time":"2018-08-31T04:42:05Z","epoch":1535690525,"modified":1535690525,"text":"Really good game, took me a couple of games to figure out how to play but once I did it was really fun to play","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"amras0000","author_uid":"1006459","time":"2018-08-31T11:38:38Z","epoch":1535715518,"modified":1535715518,"text":"The concept's great and the game's fairly polished, with really tight mechanics and a very compelling gamefeel. There's not a whole lot I can comment on since the game's so simple - and that's definitely a strength.\n\nI did find it a little hard to work out what qualified as a valid loop though. Sometimes a left-right pair would vanish, but an up-down pair would not. Sometimes placing a block pointing at a grey would make the grey vanish, sometimes it wouldn't. On one occasion I made an up-down-left-right loop which didn't dissapear. I don't know if the behavior I was seeing is by design or if the game is a little buggy. In either case, would like to either see the bugs fixed or the behavior better explained.\n\nStill, game's great. Good work.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"bradur","author_uid":"1000214","time":"2018-09-01T05:23:59Z","epoch":1535779439,"modified":1535779440,"text":"It's quite hard at first! Could use a short tutorial.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"notime4games","author_uid":"1002265","time":"2018-09-01T20:02:09Z","epoch":1535832129,"modified":1535832129,"text":"As a new player, it would had been nice to see any started sequences. Quite a few times I thought I had a complete sequence but nothing happened. Also, would have been nice if the score wasn't reset at game over so I could see what score I got","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Eric Kulbiej","author_uid":"1103214","time":"2018-09-02T00:07:43Z","epoch":1535846863,"modified":1535846863,"text":"Your game is very nice to play. The general impact is positive. \nAs a professional game dev I would suggest... just kidding haha\nNonetheless, if you want to work on this project more I suggest making a difficulty incresing algorithm.\nGraphics - very nice. Controls are also working very well.\nMaybe you could also take a glimpse at my game? I already enlarged it into a wholesome Android game :)\n","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"chronicbite","author_uid":1098254,"time":"2018-09-02T10:55:29Z","epoch":1535885729,"modified":1535885729,"text":"Beautiful idea and execution, I feel like this should have been a thing already.\nI had a lot of fun, congrats!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"vfabien21","author_uid":"1013567","time":"2018-09-02T15:02:41Z","epoch":1535900561,"modified":1535900561,"text":"Nice puzzle. I found it a bit difficult to grasp, and a slower start for begginer would have be very useful for (to really undestand what is going on). But that was interesseting\nThe graphics (and animations) are very nice.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"CristiHKJ","author_uid":"1061881","time":"2018-09-02T15:16:20Z","epoch":1535901380,"modified":1535901380,"text":"Great game! Very cool and interesting! :D","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"CBdeVilla","author_uid":"1100589","time":"2018-09-02T16:08:58Z","epoch":1535904538,"modified":1535904538,"text":"An enjoyable little puzzle game with a pretty unique mechanic. It took a while to figure out what counted as a valid loop, but I managed to figure it out not too long into my first game. If this game ever gets updated, I think it would be nice to have an indicator that tells you which blocks are connected.\n\nThe graphics are pretty solid, and the different colors help to differentiate the arrows at a glance. The background gives you something to look at when you're not staring at the game board, while not drawing too much attention to be a distraction while actually playing. The sound effects are alright, but it would have been nice to have some music during the actual gameplay.","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld42\/108954-ec216289bc432a504ea7ea01dd0bb614.png"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/file\/mh02gouhm610dyp\/blkpuzzle.p8\/file","text":"Source code"},{"url":"https:\/\/gunturtle.itch.io\/path-blox","text":"HTML5 (web)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"36063","g_author":"1010594","g_event":"LD42","g_eventkey":"73","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"235226","g_title":"Path Blox","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"195","g_commentcount":"15","g_site2_node_id":"108954","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"108954","n_urlkey":"235226","n_parent":"97793","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/path-blox","n_slug":"path-blox","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"10594","n_created":"1533949832","n_modified":"1534109289","n_version":"317512","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":108954,"parent":97793,"superparent":9,"author":10594,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2018-08-12T21:28:09Z","created":"2018-08-11T01:10:32Z","modified":"2018-08-12T21:28:09Z","version":317512,"slug":"path-blox","name":"Path Blox","body":"A Puyo-Puyo inspired take to the puzzle genre, *Path Blox* is a game about using tiles that fall from the top of the grid to form paths that cross the screen.\n\nCONTROLS:\nPress Z to start\nPress Enter to pause\nPlayers will use the left and right arrow keys to move blocks across the grid, and the down arrow key to move the blocks down faster\n\nGAMEPLAY:\nThe goal of *Path Blox* is to create paths with blocks that fall from the top of the grid. \nPaths will start from the left or right side of the screen and loop into themselves.\n![pathblox.p8_6.gif](\/\/\/raw\/269\/2\/z\/166fe.gif)\nPaths can also end at an edge of the screen, including the bottom- this can be done for extra points.\n![pathblox.p8_4.gif](\/\/\/raw\/269\/2\/z\/16706.gif)\nAt certain intervals, \"garbage\" tiles will fall from the top of the grid. 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