Fun little project for a first try at Ludum Dare! An easy fix I would have changed is maybe open up the screen more when items are collected.

Really solid first compo entry - despite the minimalist presentation, its a strong idea that fits the theme well.

Good suggestion above to reverse the shrinking with successful 'scores' too. I'd also probably just make the regular move speed the run speed too.

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Oh, FYI, its a compo entry so you need to provide the source code somewhere. Just a headsup in case you forgot!

@mrnyarlathotep, Thanks for the feedback and the headsup, fixed it!
I had the wrong link and for some reason it didn't show.

The idea could be exploited more in my opinion,
the movement of the character should be more nervous and less floaty !

Short and sweet game. Good retro music. The floatiness of the movement makes it a challenge but chellenges are a good thing! Good job!

good implementation of the theme.

10 seemed to be my highest score, wish the the curve allowed for a slightly longer game! I really liked it, my one thought is there really seemed to be no reason to not hold down shift the entire time. Would also maybe have been nice to penalize touching or bouncing off the sides? I dunno, but I enjoyed what I played! Thanks!

Neat little game, the movement is difficult to control, but that may be what you were going for :) And I would appreciate it if the screen would expand more with more blocks as said above.

I find it gets too intense too quick (there needs to be a more gradual difficulty increase). Controls could be a bit more responsive, the character feels vert heavy. Cool idea though.

I have to agree with the sentiment of many of the other reviewers here: Some small tweaks could have greatly improved this game. Either the shrinking was too fast or the bonus for returning a box was too small. The controls were not quite responsive enough leading to a floaty feeling character which was frustrating to pilot on a game with a time pressure. It feels to me like there is a fun, exciting, fast-paced game hiding here that could be revealed by minor tweaks to this game's physics

For a first try it came out really well, great use of the theme!

A fun short game, a speed of the player is a bit slow.

This game is pretty short. It has an arcade feeling to it, quenching the buttons harder just to get farther. It feels great, love it, keep up the work.

In my opinion the movement of the character is far too unresponsive. Especially in a game like this, where high precision means life or death. That's the first thing I'd look into improving if I were you.

@mike-inprinciple @nick-girardo @paden-shorey @incin
In hindsight, I'd like to fix all these little things that bug me even more seeing how many great games there are!
anyway, I'm taking notes to do better next time.

Clean and straightforward, and totally rocked the theme!

Would have liked bigger boxes to push the walls back more than they did. Good use of the theme.

Nice job for your first LD game! I like the overall idea you were going for. In particular, I liked the slight twist of having to actually return the cubes back to the center in order to collect your points. That said, I think it would have been cool to have your guy slow down a bit the more cubes you collected. The payoff for collecting more boxes at a time could be something like the walls get pushed back a bit or something.

At any rate, great job!

I like it, the graphics are missing but gameplay is okay it is your first time so it doesent matter. You did a great job keep making stuff and you will eventually get better!! Stay humble!

Really fun game. In my opinion the hardest part of these game jams is to make a somewhat finished (or at least playable) game, and I think you did really good! Especially concidering this is your first time. You even had time for music! But like I said the game is fun and also really challenging. The music is cool too. My highscore is 17 :D

Fun game! I wish I didn't have so much momentum in my movement(or maybe if I were slippery instead?), and if I were you, I'd keep working on it after the jam and see where it goes!

Hey SoyerTek nice small game. Like some mentioned before, if i got more score It would have been nice to be able to buy more time but overall fresh and nice game idea could work real nice if you continue developing with additional powerups and being able to play endless as it'd get more difficult when I buy more time and get additional enemies etc. Overall nice small game definitely has potential for further development and ideas on top, good job!

Good job on your first entry! I like the audio. I wish the speed of the player was a bit faster. I see we had similar idea of how to implement the theme!

Feels a bit empty and walls in my opinion walls are closing pretty fast. But well its pretty good as long as it is and also it reminded kinda of my game for the LD42. So you got it man! Good job there I hope we see more projects from you in the following LD.

Welcome to Ludum Dare, and congrats on your first entry! You've got audio, you stuck to the theme and you produced something that's fun to play. Great job.

A Nice addition would be some power ups ex faster movement or red blocks come to you. Also if the red blocks weren't so static. Could do something interesting like katamari!

Simple and effective implementation of the theme. The controls feel very sluggish and it seems the difficulty curve is too linear. It'd be nice if there was a stronger impact of player skill/choices on longevity and potential high score. Great work for your first LD!

Yeah ! Great idea !

It's simple and it's perfectly work, with some more features like slow down the characters if he is carry many cubes or if the cube that you carry have a physical impact on the others. But that's very satisfying and fun to clean all that's room.

Oh and my best score was 12

That's a really great for a first entry, congratulation ! Keep it up and see you next jam !

I think that the platform shrinks too quickly and can't really resize it with the cubes. The music isn't really good imo and the controls are too slippery.

This game is very funny my hight score is 5 :'(