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Animal Heart Rush's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #3668 | 2.947 | 2.947 |
| Artwork | #3715 | 3.263 | 3.263 |
| Enjoyment | #4492 | 2.947 | 2.947 |
| Creativity | #7607 | 2.579 | 2.579 |
| Narrative | #10073 | 1.263 | 1.263 |
Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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The game features a "Difficulty Counter" in the top left that decreases with every move. When it reaches zero, the game's difficulty rises!
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My match 3 vision is no good here lol. The timer is tough! The heart gem mechanic is nice.
it’s a sweet spin to the genre. All this requires is explosions & animations for a full release. Perhaps the how to might also work with a video rather than text. Great work
Got a score of 6,882! My main criticisms are that there isn't an in game tutorial of any sort, needing to use the itch page to figure things out is a little strange and I also didn't realize that you could move things without it making a match, which is non-standard in these sorts of games so could probably have used informing about. Otherwise though, this was fun! I liked the challenge brought by having to think diagonally, and the sound design was satisfying as heck when things fall into place.
Thanks for playing! And thank you for the feedback and advice. I ran out of time and couldn't make a tutorial, but I'll do my best to add one next time!
Simple but nice. I like it :)
Nice game. Like the cozy vibe.
Picked it up in 10sec, no tutorial needed. Thats a sign of good design - everything just feels natural.
P.S Im in this jam too with "snake countdown". Would love to hear your though
This is such a new spice for the match-3 genre, really unique and fun to mess around. Since we can control the grid however we want, it’s easier to aim for match-4 and match-5 than normal match-3 games. We would love to see special tiles or boosters for this game.
Lovely art and soothing sfx, music. Great job!
Great submission! My brain was having a hard time processing the diagonal movement but I thought it was pretty interesting and engaging regardless. Nice job!
What a neat game! It seems very polished, and I really like the design. It was a little hard to know if I had selected a animal at first. Maybe make it like increase size or change color so you know you've pressed it? Good work, and thanks for checking out my game!
The diagonal moves are pretty interesting, and the timer life bar works well. The effects make it very satisfying to get a chain of matches.
I think it should be a bit clearer what increasing difficulty means, as I initially expected it to add more color variations or change the board, but eventually realised it speeds up the timer.
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When the difficulty increases, the timer just runs down faster. I actually wanted to add more panel types and falling obstacle blocks, but unfortunately, I ran out of time...
A fun twist on the classic match 3 format. Definitely gets your brain thinking since you normally don't think about diagonal movements.