Genre: Puzzle

Project started on: August 31st, 2020
Project completed on: September 9th, 2020
Approximate time spent on project: 20 hours

Crablocks is my entry for this year ‘A Game By its Cover’ jam where you take a cart from the Famicase 2020 exposition and make a game with it. I went with this cart because of the cute design and the gameplay ideas it gave me. I was going to make a multiplayer puzzle game (that can also be played alone) where you control a girl and her crab pal, both with different mechanics.

The game went fairly well! I knew exactly what I was going to do for the crab gameplay and I think the other one is serviceable and the end result somewhat works, even if it is unpolished, as usual. I didn’t want to go with a really big project this time because I’m already working on so much; I got inspired by Yoshi (NES) and other puzzle games.

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About the game

Select between one and two players and move your characters around to keep the blocks from reaching the ladder and the top of Cinch’s recycling plant! The game has very simple controls, moving using WASD and the keyboard arrows and the extra ‘enter’ key in single-player allows you to switch characters. There are 7 colors of blocks to match, the difficulty slowly increasing between each day, and some blocks are made of multiple blocks!