Duzzle

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Chill and relax while playing Duzzle: A soothing block puzzle game.

Feel free to share your high score in the comments!

Made by 39 using Python and pygame



Description

The game is not a usual block puzzle game though. Before every tile you receive, you get to roll the dice and the tile's size is going to be based on the number you roll.

This twist comes from the GMTK Game Jam 2022 with the theme "Roll of the Dice".

Since Duzzle was made for the jam, it has accordingly been made within a time frame of 48 hours. 21 of those hours were actively spent on the development of this game.


How to play

You start out with an empty 10x10 grid. To receive a tile which you can use to fill the grid, either press the ROLL button with the hand image at the bottom on the right, or press the AUTO button so you don't have to roll manually each and everytime.


When placing a tile, your score gets added by the size of the placed tile.

Once a row or a column has no free tiles anymore, it gets cleared so you can keep on playing.

If there is no possible move you can do anymore, you lost and can play again by pressing the RETRY button. So make sure to fill as many rows and columns as possible!



Info

This game was made in Python using the game library pygame. One person worked on this game. Playing in the web is possible through a kind of new technology named pygbag/pygame-wasm.


Credits
  • 39 (me)
    • Development
    • Assets (images, sound)
    • Everything else
  • My dog
    • Mental support
  • flaticon
    • ROLL button icon
    • SFX/Music toggle button icons
  • StrangeKioH
    • Background music ("Some Changes")
  • Pygame & Pygbag
    • Providing the library and exportation to HTML5
  • 1010
    • The game i took inspiration from
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, HTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Author39
GenrePuzzle
Tagsblocks, Game Maker's Toolkit Jam, pygame, python, Relaxing, solo

Download

Download
Duzzle.zip 44 MB
Download
Source Code
External

Install instructions

  1. Download the zip-file
  2. Extract the content of the zip-file
  3. Make sure the assets folder is in the same directory as Duzzle.exe
  4. Run Duzzle.exe

Note: Your antivirus might throw a false positive. If it does add Duzzle.exe to the exceptions list.

Comments

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Hi, to fix audio problems please have a try to pygbag 0.2.0

( and anyway old pre pre-releases before 0.1.5 may not run anyway because cdn was badly organized )

Didn't realize that til now, fixed and working again :D Thanks

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Definatly my favourite game in the jam so far!! Super impressive that this was made using pygame, and as you'r first pygame game! I found it most engaging so far, good job on that! I feel like it could maybe have a different win condition, Im not really sure what to change, nice

Thank you for those great words. I'm glad you like it. That's a huge motivation! :D

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Great concept :)

Only one thing: dice should stop when it gives you the block
1010 was an inspiration I see :D

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It's my first ACTUAL game in pygame so I basically learnt pygame during the process of making Duzzle for GMTK 2022. I had alot of fun making it. What do you think? :)
I appreciate any kind of feedback.
What could be better? What's nice? Are there any bugs?

Thanks.