Unnamed Bejeweled-like puzzle game!

[Tesselode]

Hey, I've been working on a puzzle game this past week. I've been posting on the itch.io forums about it, but I've neglected you guys! So I'm gonna fix that.

The game is a lot like Bejeweled, but you rotate tiles instead of swapping them, and you have to make squares of the same color instead of 3 in a row. I've been working on making some trippy backgrounds. Here's a video of today's progress:



You can grab snapshot builds here:

http://tesselode.itch.io/betiled?secret ... WLqMF6nCrk

[Tesselode]

Right now I'm just doing behind the scenes work that won't make for any cool gifs, so here's a powerup!

[s-ol]

wow, this looks really polished and well-made! How do you do the backgrounds behind the scenes?

[Tesselode]

wow, this looks really polished and well-made! How do you do the backgrounds behind the scenes?

The blue background in the gif is just circles that move down and to the left, but their x position also varies sinusoidally depending on their y position, creating a nice wavy effect. The zen mode background actually uses the same circles for the stars, and the motion blur/smearing effect is just accomplished by drawing a transparent rectangle on the canvas instead of clearing it all the way. There's also a background here that I got by having growing circles and not clearing the canvas.

[ivan]

Looks very nice. I like the Tetris-like presentation. Nice sound effects too.
However, it should be pointed out that this gameplay mechanic has been done in Bejeweled Twist (2008):
http://store.steampowered.com/app/3560/
So it would be nice to see a slightly different gimmick in the gameplay.
Good job overall, I see a lot of potential.

[qubodup]

You can grab snapshot builds here:

http://tesselode.itch.io/betiled

The link is dead (check using incognito mode).

[bobbyjones]

He seemed to removed it from itch.io

[Tesselode]

Oh wow, I'm dum. I forgot to post the secret link:

http://tesselode.itch.io/betiled?secret ... WLqMF6nCrk

Also,

Looks very nice. I like the Tetris-like presentation. Nice sound effects too.
However, it should be pointed out that this gameplay mechanic has been done in Bejeweled Twist (2008):
http://store.steampowered.com/app/3560/
So it would be nice to see a slightly different gimmick in the gameplay.
Good job overall, I see a lot of potential.

Ivan, you're kinda right. I don't think there's anything *wrong* with the mechanics, but they could definitely be more distinctive. Right now the game is a pretty generic puzzle game. I'll see what else I can think of.

[bobbyjones]

Since 0.10.0/mobile was released now I can officially say "It doesn't work on Android or 0.10.0"

[Tesselode]

Since 0.10.0/mobile was released now I can officially say "It doesn't work on Android or 0.10.0"

Oh yeah, maybe I should release some new builds then. My copy is updated for 0.10.0, but not the .love files.