Its quite fun, i managed to get more than 35 (till i accidentally closed the window). Played it again and figured you can cheed :P (take some blocks and stand on the top of the largest tower, jump and leave thoose bocks below you without being hit, of course)

I realize that, it's the main way of getting up (at least for me), however it means it's harder to dodge falling blocks, and if you die, you have quite a bit of climbing to do.

This is quite polished, I'm impressed. I wish I'd played it on a faster computer :).

I like it and a played it a couple of times :D, but it very quickly turn into being about 4 - 3 blocks in the middle and taking blocks form the ground and put on top.

It might be fun with some big blocks/towers falling down once in a while to change the terrain completely. Otherwise it's just kind of flat and a big tower in the center.

Also you should consider making the markers for where the new blocks fall a bit more visible. Maybe a beam all the way down?

After a short while I didn't think about the falling blocks as tools, but just obstacles. I always just move blocks from the solid ground to climb on. If the cool down was longer one might have to focus more on the falling blocks. Dunno though.

Respawned right under a block (and died again)

Giving you props if only for not using "enemies as ammo".

Was it really necessary to set the program priority so high? The game didn't always respond to my inputs because its priority was higher than the keyboard and mouse. Reducing it to normal fixed the problem completely, and it didn't lag either.

snowyowl: my bad, i thought i changed that. i had set it to maximum because my dev platform at the time was... s**t, lets be honest. I will set it to default normal priority for the jam version

tigmarboss:
that, as a matter of fact, is my usual tactic as well. thing is, if you do that, there is less area to maneuver in, plus if you die, there is a chance you will spawn bak at the bottom of the screen. I will consider a fix for the new version

This was OK. It seems like the winning strategy is to try and even out the playing field and avoid getting head-dropped, but the game was too slow to make that any fun, and the tower climbing seemed random since you'd just get head-bricked and die.

Nice use of theme, here. It's certainly innovative. It look good, too... which is always a plus.

:D

TenjouUtena:
Generally, the best idea is combination of the two: a tower about 4 bricks wide.

SonnyBone:
Thanks

someone:
I'm implementing a 3-second invincibility after spawning to correct that, as it happened to me quite a lot as well (it'll be in the post-compo edition)

Innovative and pretty fun. Was a bit hard to see the falling blocks against the dark background.

A wonderful concept, definitely one of the most interesting takes on the theme I've seen so far. Simple and efffective. The main problem I had was that it was hard to tell when a block was going to fall near you. The alerts need to be more obvious, maybe with a sound when something's about to fall on you, or a beam of light showing where each block is going to land. The black-on-blue colour scheme looked wonderful, but it made it hard to tell when something was going to fall on you.

That aside, this is a cracking entry! One of the most interesting I've played so far :D

Danik & alistair:
I have implemented a light beakon in the post-compo version :D

I like the graphics (except the arrows) but it's too slow to be fun I think (maybe removing the teleport delay would help) and a, d and w is a poor choice of keys on an azerty keymap... It makes the game hard to play.
I played it under wine and there are slowdowns.

PS: there is no sound, right?

stqn:
Wine is renowned for screwing up GameMaker, im sorry. The teleport delay is designed to make you need to dodge more falling blocks, etc.

And yes, there is no sound in the compo version

Well done, liked the game very much. Sadly there were a few sounds missing for me (block hittig floor,..) but besides to that very well done.

Well, this was pretty neat. I couldn't understand how to use the portals at first. The game started making more sense once I did figure that out (right before I was going to quit, mind you). Could use some music. Also, I imagine the mechanic might get old pretty quick.

I've played the game some more and found that it goes much faster (probably twice) once I've climbed a bit and less blocks are visible... Not sure if that's intented or if it's because you expect a fixed amount of time between frames.

PS: what I meant is: the faster pace is much better than the slow game I'm experiencing at the start, and if it's not a gameplay decision then maybe an improvement would be to use the elapsed time between two frames to compute movements and/or optimize the game by not redrawing/handling movement of all blocks but only those that are moving. Or maybe Wine and Linux open source ATI drivers just suck, which is another possibility.

madpew:
I purposely kept most sound effects out, as i found them quite repetitive and irritating.

pekuja:
The post-compo version has music

stqn:
No, that is simply caused by the fact the more blocks there are, the slower it is. Pure common lag, unfortunately. If you are on linux, running the game under wine, the lag will be multiplied greatly, as wine is renowned for not being good at game maker

I tried the game under Windows and it’s much faster than under Linux, but also gets totally unplayable because of huge input lag. Oh well.