I Agree ben.
The coloured blocks could just represent abstract catagories, as the
coloured ships do in alien outback, though really any set of objects would
work in the game, for instance how about matching tyles with symbols for the
classic elements earth, fire, wind and water, (sorry, I've been rewatching
avatar the last air bender recently), or if you wanted to keep the coin
theme, go for something a bit more universally applicable like bronze,
copper, silver and gold coins.
Though as I said, this wasn't the major problem I had with change reaction,
my major issue was that overview vs speed wasn't really worked out well
enough for strategic play, and mostly it seemed the best tactic was just
chucking matching coins together as fast as possible, rather than wasting my
time overviewing the piles to make for combos.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben" <gamehead...@aol.co.uk>
To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] change reaction - Re: games we always come back too?
Hi Charles,
I personally don't see your logic, because i can understand colours almost
perfectly (considering i've never seen and relative to that). Besides,
the
game is that difficult for anyone who isn't a U.S. citizen or who doesn't
know the coins well enough. coloured blocks or something similar or even
different that isn't coins would be a great asset to the game, giving it a
higher fanbase in theory.
-----Original Message-----
From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of Charles Rivard
Sent: 10 June 2012 02:50
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: [Audyssey] change reaction - Re: games we always come back too?
Adding the left or right shift to the arrow keys tells you the coin to
your
left or right respectively. Down arrowing tells you what is down the
stack.
The object is to find 3 coins vertically or horizontally and exploding
them
by dropping the coin you are given onto the correct stack. You shorten
the
stacks, which start with 20 coins in each, with the chain reaction of
exploding coins. If a bomb is on a stack, and you have the correct coin
that matches it, all coins of that denomination in the stack will explode.
If you are on the bomb and it explodes, you lose 10 seconds off the clock.
It's a fast action puzzle game.
As for being coins rather than colored blocks, I prefer the coins, because
color means very little to me, because I've never seen them. I would have
a
problem remembering green, red, blue, brown, or whatever. As it is now,
the
higher the value of the coin, the higher your score, which makes more
sense
to me. HTH.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games we always come back too?
i should probably try change reaction again, sinse I could never get into
the game when i first tried the demo, ---- though I admit that partly this
might be a country thing, sinse some of the coins were American ones which
were unfamiliar and which i'd not really heard of before.
I think for me it would've been better if the coins were abstract objects
like coloured blocks as in Tetris.
This wasn't however the major problem i had with the game, the major
problem was understanding what was precisely happening. i got that the
principle was similar to columns or tetris with piles of coins, but there
didn't seem to be a way to review the piles or plan strategically, you
just seemed to get a coin, and have to hammer left to right until you
heard a matching coin, then chuck and hope, which made it feel far more a
random arcade game than a stratogy one.
Imho Klango's old haunted factory game (which is now sadly utterly
unavailable), was a much better take on this type of puzzle in audio, or
more recently Quentin's magic blocks.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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