Minigame - Feedback wanted

[basil99]

Hi, all!

This is a minigame concept we plan to add to a bigger project. I'm personally not sure this is a playable thing, as for me its a bit boring. Anyway, communtity feedback is wanted. Plz, leave your opinion about this.

Idea is a folowing - a big picture is splitted into square pieces, like 4x5. Then, some pieces are randomly removed and remained structure is falling down. Your purpose is to restore original pic by catchin falling block by moving "basement".  Well, sounds unclear, but may be demo helps. Download it - http://vespacrabro.com/tetra.rar

Thanks

[kevin]

A screen shot would be nice...

[basil99]

A screen shot would be nice...

Yeah, but by some reason my existing screen capture software is useless here - PB intercepts all keypress ). Looking what i can to do. Anyway, try it, nothing too grafics to look

[kevin]

 You don't need screen capture, just press -> Print Screen, then Paste the image to your favourite paint package..

[basil99]

You don't need screen capture, just press -> Print Screen, then Paste the image to your favourite paint package..

Thanks for that. Last time i pressed PrtintScreen several years ago )
So, this is a game screen. Small block is falling down and player may press left/right keyd to shift "base" columns. Space or Down moves falling block rapidly. Esc - quit the programm

[rkstuart]

It seems to play well enough, the first part with the different colored blocks just confused me as there didn't sem to be any pattern other than a vague color preference, maybe it's just me; the cartoon pictures were okay, but yeah, a little boring, and the whole moving the "basement" instead of the blocks really took some getting to...I kept moving in the wrong direction.

[RayRayTea2]

You don't need screen capture, just press -> Print Screen, then Paste the image to your favourite paint package..

Actually you can just use Alt+PrtSc, this copies only the active window (so you don't have to crop the image later as PrtSc captures the whole work area by default). In case anybody here's using Directory Opus, you can directly paste the clipboard into your current folder too - super handy. Sorry for a bit of derailing! Now to download the game :)

Update: Personally I could survive playing it from time to time (as a minigame) if the movement were on the grid - often times I had the impression the piece should click in but it continued sliding down. I had the impression the pieces are falling too fast, maybe I'm just too slow. Also for me the first picture was much easier to assemble than images with characters, so I assume if the images were more geometrical it'd be more fun to play... maybe :)