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With the button people at least have to time it if they want to play like that, lol.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":726003,"author_name":"OctahedronSoftware","author_uid":"octahedronsoftware","epoch":1633434089,"text":"There is strategy to how you use your health, which I liked. I would have liked to restart on the level that you die rather than the first level. Also, this reminds me of a game called Qix on the Gameboy.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":751694,"author_name":"jeremyfa","author_uid":"jeremyfa","epoch":1633705734,"text":"Nice concept! I didn't get it right away but then once you understand what you have to do, it's fun to play. A bit hard though \ud83d\ude05 Would be nice to see how you could develop the idea on a post-jam version?\nWell done anyway!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":751725,"author_name":"doomshmuck","author_uid":"doomshmuck","epoch":1633706367,"text":"It wasn't immediately obvious to me what the goal was... I see it was in the description underneath, but that should have been highlighted in-game better.  Maybe have the sections you need to fill be highlighted or something?","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":762980,"author_name":"Aggrathon","author_uid":"aggrathon","epoch":1634146799,"text":"That was a fun game, a simple concept, but well executed! Could have used a bit better tutorialisation e.g. the target shouldn't be that muted and maybe a label.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":763314,"author_name":"gdesecrate","author_uid":"gdesecrate","epoch":1634163437,"text":"Thanks for the game!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":763326,"author_name":"VeryGenuineCraze","author_uid":"verygenuinecraze","epoch":1634163989,"text":"Good idea. I had some trouble understanding the games rules, you could use the background of the map to show where you want the atoms.\nIt can be a nice puzzle game with more polish. Good job :thumbsup: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":764399,"author_name":"BougieBirdie","author_uid":"bougiebirdie","epoch":1634259990,"text":"I love the look and sound of this game, and the premise of corralling those pesky particles is a fun idea. Something about the mechanics felt so nostalgic even if I can't quite place it, and the background music immediately evoked Tetris for me.\n\nPlacing the lines of foam was quite challenging though. The lines are quite long to start, and when you have many particles bouncing around in later levels it becomes quite difficult to even place a line without getting yourself hurt. I don't know how you'd specifically fix that though. Maybe there could be bits of foam already throughout the level that you can draw to, or even the ability to draw partial lines? I'm just spitballing here.\n\nIt was a lot of fun though!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":765074,"author_name":"mira","author_uid":"mira","epoch":1634373259,"text":"Ok this game is very simple, but so much fun! Would love see this game improved and on mobile to kill some time.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":765079,"author_name":"foxtrot-roger","author_uid":"foxtrot-roger","epoch":1634373926,"text":"It's a really nice concept, I'd love to see it expanded, some tweaks could be done like make the green always destroy blocks or have some way of removing blocks, I had blocked myself out of the solution a few times... Otherwise, very nice mood, sound and music are very pleasing :-)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":765119,"author_name":"Vivoubos","author_uid":"vivoubos","epoch":1634379894,"text":"Nice game, simple but do the job! 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