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Quadrata Minima by mccarlp

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made by mccarlp for LD 42 (JAM)

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I love this theme. All I could envision was a match three with an ever shrinking play area. To keep it fun, it starts out fairly simple (3 dots, 3 colors), but it gets harder each level (max 5 dots and 8 colors). As it stands, this is all me. I designed the game, wrote the code, made the 3D and 2D art, and just for giggles this time I made all my own sounds using nothing but my mouth, an African drum, and a Logitech headset with Audacity. However, since sounds are really a matter of taste, there is a full customization menu to turn of any or all the sounds. You can even reset the local high score.

Tomorrow is the first day of Back to School for teachers like me, so I won't be working any more on this tomorrow unless I get off a bit early on the first day. If I do, I will try to implement worldwide leader boards using Dreamlo. I have used it before, but it has been a while. Besides, I need to get familiar with it again so I can show my students how to use it. :^)

So in case I don't get back to this before the deadline, I give you Quadrata Minima (Latin for Minimal Square). I hope you have fun playing it, because I had a blast making it! Enjoy!

Added the Online Leader Board stuff! Finished just minutes before the deadline.

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HTML5 (web) http://classegames.com/qm/
Windows http://classegames.com/qm/Quadrata Minima.zip
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/quadrata-minima

Ratings

Overall 273th 3.688⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 268th 3.583⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 372th 3.396⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 194th 3.979⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 702th 3.28⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Audio 295th 3.417⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 420th 2.917⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 772th 2.921⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 18🗳️ 15🗨️

Feedback

🎤 mccarlp
09. Aug 2018 · 22:23 UTC
classEgames Weekend Warriors game jam team's 1st Ludum Dare. Current Members 1 (unless Justin changes his mind!)
wavertron
13. Aug 2018 · 07:55 UTC
Pretty cool. I'm not a big puzzle game fan, but this is well polished, easy to understand, and potentially frustrating - what all good puzzle games need to be :D
HolyBlackCat
13. Aug 2018 · 07:59 UTC
Those sounds though, love them. :P
🎤 mccarlp
13. Aug 2018 · 15:11 UTC
**Quadrata Minima**

![Quadrata Minima Cover.jpg](///raw/893/d/z/17830.jpg)

Take a look at **Quadrata Minima** by classEgames' Weekend Warriors!


It is a fun match 3 game where the play area keeps shrinking until you are literally *Running Out of Space*.
Gus the Shark
14. Aug 2018 · 05:59 UTC
Nice puzzle game, I like how the patterns are creative and not just the classic tetris ones. Wish there were more interactions/levels. Gotta appreciate those mouth-sfx. Nice work!
Silvae
16. Aug 2018 · 02:43 UTC
Great game. Just the right amount of stressful :). Liked the sounds as well. Nicely done!
phearbot
16. Aug 2018 · 02:45 UTC
Nice puzzle game! The sound when it shrank got me every single time, haha. I didn't do too bad either, 5360!
netguy204
17. Aug 2018 · 01:36 UTC
That was cute and well executed. I like how you worked with the theme and how the challenge scaled. Well done.
Ashment
17. Aug 2018 · 05:28 UTC
Awesome game. Loved the sound effects and the art works well. Good stuff!
J carlson
17. Aug 2018 · 05:46 UTC
Really great game, had a lot of fun playing it. was using my wifes laptop which has a touch pad that i'm not used too, so was a little limited except for point and click, couldn't rotate it around. but excellent work.
NOTBADGUN
17. Aug 2018 · 15:28 UTC
NOTBADGUN )) 1060 score! Good luck!
Huntclaw
18. Aug 2018 · 02:58 UTC
I can't handle those sound effects (in a good way)! I'm used to match-three games either having the board constantly full of pieces (e.g. "Bejeweled") or adding pieces that are affected by gravity (e.g. "Bust-a-Move"/"Puzzle Bobble"), so having to fill the board myself by adding preset pieces/configurations that aren't affected by gravity was new and interesting. I know "having to fill the board myself by adding preset pieces" sounds kind of like "Tetris", but it's still different with the lack of gravity and that it's match-three, not match lines! Especially because of the shrinking board. Interesting game!
Sidnoea
18. Aug 2018 · 04:06 UTC
In the year 2018, where the match-three genre has been beaten to death over and over again, then brought back from the dead only to be beaten back to death once more, I didn't think it was possible for anybody to bring anything original to the table. And yet, you did, so congratulations. Besides this minor miracle, the sounds were... interesting, the graphics were passable, and the game was just fun enough to keep me playing. I actually got the high score! Good entry.
🎤 mccarlp
18. Aug 2018 · 05:19 UTC
@sidnoea, Thanks for the kind words. That is a great score. My friend Justin beat me earlier and so I had to play and take back the top spot, but with that score you may be safe for a while. Wow!

And thanks to everyone who has played and rated my game! We finally broke 20. Yeah!
saoi-games
18. Aug 2018 · 07:58 UTC
Thank you for sharing your game with me. I played it on my stream tonight at https://www.twitch.tv/saoigames

I have rated your game, but all of my feedback was captured in the stream.

You can hear my comments in the archive at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/298728142
WrenPirate
22. Aug 2018 · 21:01 UTC
I liked this! It got a lot better when I actually dug out my 3-button mouse to play. I liked the audio, both the non-intrusive tick and the reaction effects. It seems the block I'm placing is about 103% scale to the playing field, which was a little confusing. I thought about asking for the balls to collapse after a match, but I see that the new blocks need those little spaces; they aren't continuous blocks. I thought this was going to be very simple and was pleasantly surprised.
mapedorr
26. Aug 2018 · 23:26 UTC
Nice puzzle game. I liked the core mechanic although it was difficult to understand it in the beginning, it is a new and refreshing approach to match three games. I didn't like sound effects and graphics could be better.

You already played our game: The legend of the looter and the incredible backpack that never runs out of space, so we can't do anything but thank you.​ 」(￣▽￣」)
M8rix
03. Sep 2018 · 18:40 UTC
Saw Shaun Spalding playing this on his stream, and decided to check it out myself. Really neat and addicting! Cool that you implemented a global leaderboard, too!