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Nice and hectic, it's fun and wanna keep playing a level to beat my score. I do feel punished by the game sometimes that I cannot start a new movement quick enough.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1010455,"author_name":"Raaph","author_uid":"raaph","epoch":1696510786,"text":"The difficulty curve is a little off. It's 2 minutes of sitting still and then your space is so limited it gets challenging. More patterns to the missiles would have been nice. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1010537,"author_name":"GoogleFrog","author_uid":"googlefrog","epoch":1696512513,"text":"I like the soundtrack and the movement is good enough for dodging. Sometimes I felt like RNG killed me though, by blocking off part of the level with a removed tile, so some control over which tile disappears would be great. For example, the tile beneath the player could disappear to incentivise using the edges early to preserve the middle.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1010590,"author_name":"Planetary","author_uid":"planetary","epoch":1696513854,"text":"@googlefrog, you're right! After I published the game, I realized that after a certain amount of time, the level can split in two or you can't move anymore, which is annoying. I will be more careful about this in the future.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1015380,"author_name":"JakubBala","author_uid":"jakubbala","epoch":1696643040,"text":"Nice refined gameplay that focuses on a core concept and makes it work well. \n\nOne of the maps reminded me a lot of a guy called springman (google play)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1017423,"author_name":"NiceKot","author_uid":"nicekot","epoch":1696720295,"text":"Gameplay is very tense. That's great!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1019509,"author_name":"epb9000","author_uid":"epb9000","epoch":1696831687,"text":"The random number gods despise me, clearly. More than one death because it picked a the block I was trying to move to the instant I pushed the button. I'm no stranger to creating such scenarios, so understandable, haha. Excellent use of the theme.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1021767,"author_name":"Gyro","author_uid":"gyro","epoch":1696992889,"text":"Its a bullet hell with the added precision of grid-based movement. It makes dodging the projectiles a lot easier to comprehend as they're also moving along the same grid. Nevertheless, the game still had plenty of challenge and the shrinking map was a great way to involve the theme and keep the gameplay interesting.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1023671,"author_name":"LDJam user 234567","author_uid":"234567","epoch":1697217352,"text":"It's a good game with the potential to evolve and make a good mobile game.\nThe music is minimalist but goes well with the mood.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1024321,"author_name":"Sentmoraap","author_uid":"sentmoraap","epoch":1697295010,"text":"The moves could be improved by buffering inputs when you haven\u2019t finished your previous mode. 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The music is ok, works with the whole aesthetic.\n\nGameplay could be addictive, but as it is I would have liked if the reaction time on the controls was a bit more consistent, for some reason I get slight input delay at random times. \n\nOn top of that the randomness of the map shrinking causes the difficulty to be all over the place and there's points where I can get stuck.\n\nI see potential in this if it were to be continued!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1027164,"author_name":"Kazuma","author_uid":"kazuma","epoch":1697615379,"text":"Cool game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1027171,"author_name":"abcdef65g","author_uid":"abcdef65g","epoch":1697617318,"text":"I couldn't get anywhere close to the times to beat each stage, haha. I think I'm really bad at the game. I quite like the minimalist feel you went for, though I would prefer if the player didn't look so similar to the missiles. I had fun though!\n\nWould be nice to have the disappearing tiles feel less random, they are either a non-issue or unnecessarily punishing by splitting the field in half, or blocking off your only escape path. 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