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litenboll | 4 days ago
Some feedback/thoughts:
1. I don't think the current approach to difficulty is fun, its just feels limiting without any interaction or ways to turn it into an advantage. Some other ideas would be to have non-tetris pieces that are more difficult to place (but might be very good if you find agood placement), or temporary board obstacles that you can work around until they are gone/removed. Or pieces that do something else when placed like become obstacles until adjacent pieces are cleared. There are many ways to find a more fun difficulty approach :)
2. As others have pointed out it's frustrating to lose when you have "powers" left
3. The difficulty progression vs leaderboards are not clear to me. Am I only competing against players in the same difficulty? Can I choose a lower difficulty? (I would rather get the difficulty from competition than the fixed blocks on board)
4. Getting "holes" in normal tetris feels a lot less punishing than in your game. Here it almost feels unrecoverable at times. I don't have suggestion, and maybe it's not even a problem. Just wanted to mention it.
5. The powers feel a bit "meh". They are useful sure, but seem pretty similar in a way.
Humanista75|4 days ago
Your comments are very interesting and insightful.
1. Difficulty: You're right—making obstacles dynamic or even destructible is a powerful idea and could be a lot of fun. I’m definitely taking note of that.
2. Powers & Losing: This makes total sense. Other users have mentioned this as well, and it’s a very reasonable point. I’ll look for the best way to implement a reminder or alert.
3. Leaderboards & Competition: This is a great point, and I should make it clearer on my end. You only play one daily game, but your records are compared in two ways:
a. Global: Your score is automatically compared against the rest of the world.
b. Personalized Competition: You can choose specific competitors to follow. This is similar to followers on X; you follow whoever you want, and they are added to your personal board (called 'My competition today'). Your game is then automatically compared just with them.
Imagine you want to compete with your family. You can create a board just for them by adding their profiles using the 'Add competitors here' option. Your daily game will then show up specifically against theirs in 'My competition today.' I think this feature has huge potential, even if many people haven't discovered it yet.
4. Holes: Try using the 'One Cell' power; it's designed to solve exactly that problem! ;)
5. Powers: A power that 'clears' or 'cleans' parts of the board sounds very interesting...
Thank you again for your feedback, it was very useful!
dgently7|3 days ago
This comment above about difficulty made me wonder if there are more interesting things to do with the unclear-able blocks that would both let you ramp the difficulty and achieve more of your vision. A few off the cuff ideas:
* enemy blocks that are clearable if you make a row and a column through them * enemy blocks that require to be surrounded by n deep blocks to resolve * enemy blocks that automatically pop into single cell holes * enemy blocks that grow by infecting neighboring blocks over time or the more other rows you clear * enemy blocks that require multiple row clears to resolve
the thought is having a few types with each enemy block needing a different strategy to resolve would give you more levers on how to control difficulty and give you more variation to the strategy and more agency to defeat them. powerups is kinda a deus-ex-machina currently. you dont feel earned satisfaction when you clear an enemy block.
litenboll|3 days ago