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Review by Joiltt all reviews by Joiltt

Fight the Fluff is an interesting submission, with gameplay not unlike old flow based puzzlers. Its hook is that it features nonstandard tile types that mix up the challenge with each stage.

The triangle stage caused me a bit of frustration at first, with the triangles coming into 2 different orientations.
If a tile is dropped on a tile not matching its configuration, the game will rotate it for you.
This can get confusing quite fast (and is likely intentional, intended as a challenge).

After a while I managed to find a quite interesting cheese strategy:
By dumping all corner tiles quickly around the edge of the map you can create little islands for the floofs to spawn on. Then you can use the multi-exit pieces to build an easy path in the middle with little effort.

Fun challenge, had a giggle, nice game

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 3 Technical 4 Genre 3

Review by Joiltt all reviews by Joiltt

An interesting and excellently stylized shoot-them-up, but suffering from some technical faults.

You are a block, on another block, shooting blocks at hexagons, that pelt you with even more blocks. The bright colors, simple lighting, and basic shapes mesh together well, creating a unified aesthetic. You right click to shoot, and left click to move, making of an easy to understand (albeit a tad spammy) movement and combat system.

Unfortunately, I did experience quite a number of issues.
The gameplay works on a base level, but a significant number of my movement clicks don't appear to be registering. Other than that, I fell trough the world mid gameplay once, had the movement on level two stop working, and had the transition bug out on me multiple times. The game is short as well, featuring 2 levels of about 30 seconds each.

However, when the transition works, the effect stunning, and the overall presentation is very well executed.

Scores: Overall 3 Artistical 4 Technical 2 Genre 3

Review by Joiltt all reviews by Joiltt

We Lost The Beat features a truly astonishing amount of content for the time it was made in. Being a fully 3d experience, with multiple characters, a dialogue system, various interactive oddities and at least a dozen puzzles to solve.

At it heart, it is a block pushing puzzle game, where the perspective shifts around to make various interesting challenges for the player.

The menu mentioned something about a Music Composer area, which unfortunately I was unable to locate.

Truly a display of speed-hacking skill by its developer (or perhaps I am just an incurable slowpoke in comparison)

Scores: Overall 5 Artistical 5 Technical 5 Genre 4

Review by Joiltt all reviews by Joiltt

SpaceFants is a delightfully quirky rts / lemmings-like that is a wonderful display of technical prowess.

The game starts with a cut-scene of a sunflowerseed space ship frantically steering over a hex-based (space?) archipelago. Next, a wave of cute space-phants is released onto an island somewhere in the uncaring void. From there, the space-phants will wander in random directions, and fall out of the map if they wander off the island.

However, this is the point I must shamefully admit that I do not have the slightest clue what is going on, perhaps in a good way.

You can build walls and bridges with the mouse. Walls can alter the walking direction of the space-phants, bridges can presumably be used to get to other islands. Lastly, there appears to be a virus (orb?) on another island.

I assume you must go collect the virus, but controlling the space-phants is quite difficult, as they seem go wherever they please, and had a bad habit of avoiding my bridges. I did also run into quite a couple of crashes on the windows binaries, for instance when clicking and dragging the mouse around, or when space-phants fell into the void.

In summery, SpaceFants is weird, a tad mysterious, and confusing, but made all the more interesting by those very qualities.

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 3 Technical 5 Genre 4