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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/47966967

Tessel is a colorful tile placement game. Place tiles with matching colors to make shapes and fill the board. The larger the shape, the higher the points.

documentation ☞ https://tessel.vantulder.net/about/

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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I love it, and have some feedback of you're interested:

  • As your puzzle grows, the area onto which you drag your shapes shrinks. This means that there's comes a point where your finger is obstructing the shape and target completely. There were many frustrating moments where I got the placement wrong because I couldn't see what I was doing.
    • Suggestion: an zoom feature when placing a tile when things are at a given scale, or maybe allowing the puzzle to expand off screen and slide around?
  • When the above happened, I was surprised that there's wasn't an undo button.
  • Some music and sound effects would be nice. Something chill, like this would be nice.
  • A confirmation when hitting the "back" button would be good when doing so would exit the game as well. I lost a rather impressive build out 'cause my finger slipped and it exited the game, wiping everything.
[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i better send a link for this post to the developer

i too needed undo at times

Played it for a bit. Seems cute

[–] agnomeunknown@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Very intriguing concept and immediately compelled me to play more. Also, I was sitting at the bar when I started playing and someone noticed it over my shoulder and asked what it was and if it was on iOS. I told them it was open source so probably not but they noted the name anyway. I think you've got something good in the works here!

My only notes so far are that the options are a little confusing at first glance and that the area where you drag shapes from is too close to the zone where you drag up to switch apps so I kept accidentally switching while trying to move pieces.

Otherwise great work! Looking forward to losing track of time playing this in the morning before work 😅

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

My only notes so far are that the options are a little confusing at first glance

iiuc, developer is still working on the documentation and we too had to discover the options ourselves 🤷

that the area where you drag shapes from is too close to the zone where you drag up to switch apps so I kept accidentally switching while trying to move pieces.

same here. When i play with a tablet, it's ok but when i play on my phone, i keep activating the app switch. They should maybe move that zone up, under the options

[–] original_reader@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Played it. Loved it. Will play more.

Got confused by the options initially. I think I figured them out now. Mostly.

Is there a limit to the canvas? Or can I just add tiles endlessly?

Great game. Love that it can get as complex as I want to.

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

No resume feature kind of ruins it for me

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Tetravex meets 2048