Not sure, it's just something of mine that I've wanted to do, and to see it come to life is kinda exciting. Some random doodles I drew ages ago has become something.

That's cool, man. But what kinda feedback are you looking for, then?

Well, I played it when I first read your posts. You swap two blocks to make rows. Blocks fall from the ceiling as you play. You can cause chain reactions. Am I missing anything?

I'm curious why you're so excited about it, since you've posted it in three different places, you said its something you've wanted to make for over a year and you claim lots of people want to pay money for it. So I'm trying to figure out what makes this a game that people would want to play instead of one of all the other games that are pretty much the same thing.

Hey - a lot of people like this though and would gladly pay for the final release (though it's free).

Really?

Last block-based game I played that I really liked was BlockSum and that was free.

What is supposed to set this apart from the other match N games?

Er... yeah. Just find a tool that works for you, whoever "you" happen to be. Try out lotsa stuff. Every app has a learning curve, and some will suit your individual tastes better than others.

FL Studio does all I need it too and its affordable.

This is fun... For some reason I'm thinking the next theme could be... "chickens".



Does that make any sense to anyone but me? 

Aside: It might be cool for one of the game dev competitions to be based around a music track. i.e. make a game based on a selected piece of music.

Nice!

Oh, also
ST:Later Years Pt. 2
ST:Later Years Pt. 3

Cool idears.

The Forest Spirit [wip1]

(first sketchy)

FL Studio

Street Fighter: The Later Years

Oh, oh, I wanna be on team Manhugs!

Don't we all.

The compo theme could also be Manhugs... 

"make sure you take a look at my latest casual game “Feyruna - Fairy Forest”." - Jochen Kaercher



"Retro 247 Games says that “Bonbon Quest is a solid, no-nonsense piece of platforming “collect ‘em up”, offering a generally slow-paced blend of thought and action.”" - Oliver Pearl



"I could recommend my game Bound Around.
But i don’t, it’s not for everyone: Lame graphics, crazy hard levels, …" - Blueskied



"I have made a new game, perhaps you want to try it? I am offering 30% off! It will be very cheap, but I think its fun. I hope you will try??" - SMiyamoto99

Err...

I get the feeling that Anthony is going to kill us all. 

[Making games for the love of it!]

Making games for the love of it!

Amen.

..?

Ah... a Dark Castle themed level would be awesome. That game put a lot of interesting stuff on single screens.


(for the record, I played Beyond Dark Castle on the Amiga)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art

Wikipedia is our friend.

 

Alec's point is that you'll get a lot more mileage and happiness out of working on a game just because you love working on games. I know that that's a big part of why I do it, but certainly it's not the only one.

My point is that if you don't love making games (at least), you shouldn't be an indie game developer.