PyWeek - PyBlockTower - feedback

sometimes it behaves kind of buggy but this is one of those games you can spend hours playing and replaying

Good idea, but pyODE can be a SERIOUS pain to install.

Solid dynamics, and the game is really intuitive to play. I found it almost impossible besides the easy level though. Some more polished graphics and interface and this could easily be a shareware title.

Fun game! Really nice use of the physics engine. Fits the theme quite well too.

Production-wise quite nice, though could use a little bit of polish here and there and of course sound wouldn't be out of place. Something like high-scores would be nice. Also the game starts up in full-screen mode and then makes it impossible (?) to press the exit button. That only seems to work when I switch to windowed mode.

With a little bit more work this could be a game to come back to a lot, where the player continues to try to improve their previous record (amount of blocks used, time used, etc on a particular difficulty level). What would be really nice if you could build the tower higher than a single screen as well. It really does need a high score screen in that case.

Wow, really cool game! Please develop it further!

The building controls is very intuitive. I love it.

wow this is coooool ... should make the tower build up to infinity though the more it is the more points you get. Also wind changes and different blocks would be a ++!

The block's suicidal tendencies are a bit frustrating.

Addictive and very difficult, I could get my tower above the line, but it was never there for
more than 5 or 10 seconds before the wind? blew it down.

Very cool!

Sound! we want sound of boxes falling and crashing! What a great game.

This game is alot of fun, good job!

This was pretty challenging until I figured out how to build for the wind. I thought it could have used some sound and a better victory scenario.( maybe some hand comes out and knocks over your tower ) having some non-interacting or interacting objects like leaves blowing in the wind would have been nice to see how hard it is blowing.

I liked it :D

At first, I didn't have PyODE installed, but wow! Excellent job detecting the lack of that, and so very nice to not have a crash message for once. Well done!
Eventually, I got ODE compiled and installed, and then PyODE installed, and was able to play your game. Very fun! It's a fun concept of a game, a bit like Tetris, a bit like Jenga, and overall nice and enjoyable. I would like it if I were able to rotate blocks though. It could also be neat if you had to build up from piers in a river, such that if blocks fell into the water, they were lost. This could force the player to try and build towers and join them together with horizontals and make more ornate structures. I dunno' though, just an idea. The existing game that you made is quite a bit of fun to play with, though I do wonder what you could do with it with more polish. You've got some great potential here.
Well done!

This game is pretty fun. It's a simple, yet very effective idea.

This was one of the game ideas I was considering using. I'm glad I didn't, because this was a better implementation than mine would have been.

Probably the most fun entry for me. It didn't have a lot of flashy graphics but the gameplay is absolutely flawless!

Fun and innovative! :D

Very very cool. I'm impressed that you got so much stability out of ODE. A free form sanbox mode would be fun to play with.

Cool use of physics, but it was very hard to deal with the wind.

This game rocked! It was very simple, but I loved the physics and gameplay. It made me remember my days of block building as a kid.

The wind is evil I tell you. Pretty innovative concept.

Nice game. You should definitely develop it further. Add some more types of blocks and stuff. It would probably also be nice if the blocks could rest at an angle, although I guess that presents the problem with players just making a big heap of blocks without planning anything. You should try Wario Ware Smooth Moves on the Wii if you can, it has a similar minigame in it.

i hate the little blocks. they bother more than they help. its a bit to hard. placing hard, everything shakes.

interesting idea... gameplay needs to be improved.

This is one of my favorites, top 3 or something of the most fun games! What I miss the most is a better level system, and a bit mor polish overall.

Cool game. Mouse doesn't want to go to the options/pause/exit sidebar very much - just warps back into the game. Doesn't see much point to the resolution setting.
Different shaped blocks would be cool. And different colours. And perhaps that idea where you get set different shapes and have to use them, rather than random shapes.

quite fun game (though not innovative) - made good.
a little more production would help a lot

I like the game idea and the game itself is fun, too. If you'd like to extend the game, you could add different game modes, e.g. build a tower on a smaller area or tilting ground (ok, that sounds hard to program and hard to play).. Anyway: Well done.

Awesome game, just needed more levels/sounds/whatever.

Physics. Yeah, physics!

nice fun game..

Would of been nice to have non-rectangular blocks, and sometimes I had a hard time inserting a block in between two other blocks.

It's a very solid physics puzzle game, but nothing really rises above average - the game looks OK, but not great, the concept is nicely elaborated with the wind and all, but not that interesting, and the gameplay is entertaining, but lacks greater variety. I like how you've incorporated the physics engine, and the game doesn't slow down at all even with lots of blocks on screen. The controls are very good too - the interface is so fluid and natural, that you almost don't notice it. So kudos for that, but I still don't think I'll return to play this game much in the future.

And then, one small improvement that would be easy to make: Add a one-click reset button.

This is great! I love it.

Reminds me of bridge building games. Also that screenshot looks like a cannon.

Nice game, good idea. It's pretty hard to balance the tower for the requested time. And that ***
wind too... :D. Ownz!

Hurricane wind........This game rules :)

You're missing some sound and background music there. Other than that, great entry. It's very fun and innovative. Also, challenging without being cheap. =)

Fun!

Quite fun. However it quickly becomes very easy quickly. I do hope you keep working on this.
Some recommendations: use difficulty levels. Have higher levels have birds smacking into
the tower, more wind, deformed blocks, deformed ground. Ability to save screenshots would be
really cool. I made a couple stable towers that looked really rickety :) 2player mode would be
really fun if you could throw 1x1 or 1x2 blocks at your opponents tower, maybe once every time
they get a block above the line.