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MIROH by Wendel Scardua

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made by Wendel Scardua for Ludum Dare 54 (JAM)

On this legit NES/Famicom game, you need to survive as the Minotaur in a random maze. The king Polyo-Minos not only locked you here, but he keeps sending some weird polyominos, cluttering the maze. At least he sends some fruits along with those blocks...

Update 1.0.1 (2023-10-05): fixed gamebreaking bug where player would keep playing after dying.

Update 2.0.0 (2023-10-11, POST-JAM version):

  • Better help screen
  • Web and standalone NES ROM display different buttons to avoid confusion
  • Better polyomino controls: up for hard drop, hold left/right/down for repeated movement
  • More predefined, semi-fixed mazes (is "No maze" a maze?)
  • Preview of the next 2 polyominos
  • Polyominos are chosen from a randomized bag instead of being purely random
  • Polyominos spawn and drop faster with higher scores (you "level up" every 50 points)
  • Many other assorted fixes

Update 2.0.1 (2023-10-11, POST-JAM version): - Pause screen (allow to resume or quit the game) - Hard drop now drops harder

Version selector is based on @badcop's JamPack

Manual Leaderboard™ (*)

| Player | Score | |-|-| |Jimbly|297| |PomoTheDog|288| |LittleDoctorGames|186| |coleslawski|182| |branquelo|172| |yndajas|164| |badcop|154| |ategondev|154| |heykevinbarrios|147| |natano|133| |empty5013|132| |itsBoats|113| |SirAeron|112| |Victor Perotto Pioner|105| |icylava_|105| |Honest Dan|78| |kuviman|65| |alexrosegames|64| |RookRules|43| |TimBeaudet|33| (* sorry, I forgot to take note of other people's scores, so not all people who played are here)

HTML5 (emulator) https://wendelscardua.itch.io/miroh
Link https://wendelscardua.itch.io/miroh
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/miroh

Ratings

Overall 157th 4.016⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Fun 153th 3.96⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 74th 4.143⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Theme 128th 4.302⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 400th 3.889⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Audio 251th 3.714⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Mood 323th 3.806⭐ 64🧑‍⚖️
Given 73🗳️ 70🗨️

Feedback

breadstick
03. Oct 2023 · 05:31 UTC
A great little arcade cabinet game! I enjoy the way that it forces you to split your attention between two tasks--I'm a decent tetris player and a decent maze-navigator, but when combined it turns out I suck at both.

I love the overall aesthetic choices and simple, yet clever concept--nicely done!
AluminumFool
03. Oct 2023 · 05:35 UTC
This was such a fun spin to Tetris. I love the maze idea along with it. It really fits the theme. I also think the art is very cute. I think the controls on the keyboard at times were a little awkward, but a fun play. Nice job on the game :)
Mascoll
03. Oct 2023 · 09:05 UTC
The love-child of pacman and tetris. I love it!
Some nice thought behind the palette choices and fine spritework!
Euler Moises
03. Oct 2023 · 13:50 UTC
Como sempre um ótimo trabalho!
Você está ficando cada vez melhor nos joguinhos de nintendinho.
A única crítica que tenho é que as peças descem muito rápido quando apertamos pra baixo. Eu acostumei a dar uma acelerada nas minhas jogadas com essa mecânica do Tetris, mas aqui não funcionou. Elas já aparecem lá em baixo.

Parabéns pelo jogo!
Jesse J. Jones
03. Oct 2023 · 14:39 UTC
This game is so clever! I loved that it's an actual NES game, that's so neat! Really loved the concept :)
Bauke Regnerus
03. Oct 2023 · 15:47 UTC
It's really awesome you took two completely different genres and combined them to something completely new. I needed some time to get used to managing two tings at the same time. Love the NES aesthetics. Very original, great job.
Andreadbx
03. Oct 2023 · 19:09 UTC
Impressive as usual, legit NES game with intresting mechanics!
TheBookSnail
03. Oct 2023 · 21:26 UTC
procedural generated maze?! music/sfx were spot on. i kept forgetting how to spin :ohno:
Vulkaara
03. Oct 2023 · 23:54 UTC
Saw someone streaming it and decided to give it a play! Absolutely fantastic game, incredibly impressive choice of engine and smooth gameplay making for one of my favorite picks so far. No critiques,
Got a "error windows.localstorage getter forbidden in a sandboxed document without the "allow same origin" flag." after tabbing out, didn't impact gameplay.
Rincs
04. Oct 2023 · 02:12 UTC
I get too focused on the tetris aspect and keep dying. Oh well xD Someday I'll do better than 72
Strato
04. Oct 2023 · 02:26 UTC
Honestly one of the best submissions I've played, and it being playable on nes makes it all the more impressive. Such a clever idea that I'm surprised I haven't seen it done before. The art is also really nice - good use of the nes palette.
Gorglomux
04. Oct 2023 · 07:24 UTC
What a fantastic feat! Making a nes game in 72 hours, really ?
The game is beautiful and the controls are very intuitive, amazing work !
Milan8890
04. Oct 2023 · 08:36 UTC
Reallz nice idea and execution! Love the art and music.
XRy
04. Oct 2023 · 15:01 UTC
Great use of limited space, really amplifies the pressure from tetris by adding another part outside the tower building to have to focus on too!
LDJam user 261538
05. Oct 2023 · 03:00 UTC
Super fun game. I really enjoyed it and the level of polish was great too. Awesome work!
Bongard22
05. Oct 2023 · 03:31 UTC
Really fun! I loved the split attention aspect of the game. Played on stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1942871170?t=0h18m16s
robobarbie
05. Oct 2023 · 04:16 UTC
The most shameful tetris plays of my life. 10/10
JohnCoffee
05. Oct 2023 · 14:55 UTC
great game. "New in the Old" is almost a theme of its own.
LDJam user 273626
05. Oct 2023 · 15:34 UTC
Nice entry! Loved the changing maps! And Tetris/mazes was a great idea! Too bad I'm horrible at both of those! XD
Lunicrous
05. Oct 2023 · 19:19 UTC
I am just too bad for this :sweat_smile: but great combination of two basic ideas making it super hard and innovative.
Ategon
05. Oct 2023 · 22:33 UTC
Thanks for submitting the game to the stream! If you wanted to watch it again in the future heres the vod timestamped to your game

https://youtu.be/OMFzVKOU-1I?si=ilvFXpqHjCFVBGtL&t=10980
Victor Perotto Pioner
06. Oct 2023 · 00:43 UTC
Se me falassem uma semana atrás que eu estaria jogando um jogo misturando gameplay de pac-man, com tetris e um jogo de sobrevivência eu diria que era loucura, mas essa combinação insanamente diferente combinou totalmente, meus parabéns, tudo no jogo se encaixa perfeitamente, tanto com o tema, quanto com o estilo de jogo, a música retro com os gráficos e a gameplay, tudo, realmente incrível!

Obs(Meu score pessoal)

![imagem_2023-10-05_214254378.png](///raw/e60/b5/z/5fd54.png)
Ethan G
06. Oct 2023 · 03:01 UTC
I loved your take on the theme! Managing the two systems was so much fun and caused me to think about what I was doing, I found it wasn't exactly clear that the blocks hurt me but that might just be me, really nicely done!
🎤 Wendel Scardua
06. Oct 2023 · 08:40 UTC
@ethan-g but the blocks don't hurt you, you only lose by hunger (only if the board is filled and you can't place more blocks the hunger bar would fill faster to end the game sooner). Are you thinking it hurts because of the flicker? Because the flicker is there just to circumvent a hardware limitation - the NES can't show more than 8 8x8 sprites on a single scanline. So if I don't flicker, some of then would be actually invisible.
Krassenstein
06. Oct 2023 · 17:18 UTC
Thanks for letting me play this! Excellent job!

Here's the VOD on YouTube to watch the gameplay, just skip to your chapter on the video!
https://youtu.be/-eCnQ8GAhN8
braktheman
07. Oct 2023 · 01:53 UTC
Really addictive game. Looks great, feels responsive, love that it flat out works as an NES game. The mashup of genres works surprisingly well. Fantastic job.
3mpty
07. Oct 2023 · 10:13 UTC
Really cool mixture of games that works pretty well but I do think the maze and the polyominoes needed to interrelate slightly more. But it's a lot of fun to play and I love the art + music.

The fact it should run on real hardware is so cool, great work :)
Honest Dan
07. Oct 2023 · 12:05 UTC
I really enjoyed this! Having to balance the two games was interesting, though it felt a bit turn based switching from one to another. I feel it'd be interesting if the tetrino pieces could have interacted with the minotaur while falling. I wonder too if the amount you move could have impacted how fast the hunger rises? really liked that you chose the minotaur theming, it suited great and I liked the character :)

I score 78!![Screenshot 2023-10-07 130435.png](///raw/ecb/c/z/5ff26.png)
Arthurds
07. Oct 2023 · 21:52 UTC
![Screenshot 2023-10-07 185230.png](///raw/3de/c2/z/5ffc2.png)
yndajas
08. Oct 2023 · 00:53 UTC
Great expansion of the Tetris genre! Took a little while to get used to the controls to avoid accidentally messing things up, but when I did it became very satisfying and addictive. I love the extra puzzle element of trying to avoid blocking your maze path. And the graphics and audio are perfect for the NES style

I had a little trouble reading the controls page - I think the lack of real descenders and ascenders in the font and the clustering of inputs was a little confusing. One other thing I'd have liked to have seen is modern Tetris quality of life stuff like pressing up to skip a tetromino to the bottom, and then it would be nice for the down button to move the tetrominos down a little bit slower unless you hold it down (I accidentally pushed it down too far a few times - usually when switching between minotaur and tetrominos)

But other than those very minor gripes, a really, really enjoyable entry that I'd love to see developed further!

Managed to get 164 🎉

![Score of 164](///raw/8be/a5/z/5ffd8.png)
RicardoBusta
08. Oct 2023 · 14:38 UTC
Wow, I liked everything about this game. The audio, the graphics and the gameplay mechanics. Really well done how tetris and survival combined together.
ColeSlaughter
09. Oct 2023 · 17:47 UTC
[Thanks for submitting your game to stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1945057375?t=00h29m36s)

Of course Pomo had to go back and beat my high score. :stuck_out_tongue:

Such a well-realized idea, this is probably one of my favorites of yours! Great job. :smile:
Little Doctor Games
09. Oct 2023 · 17:56 UTC
Had a great time playing this on stream! The addition of bigger tetris pieces really messes with you, and having to plan ahead to make sure you will have a path through the maze is a great mechanic. Nice work!
Ategon
10. Oct 2023 · 14:18 UTC
![Screenshot 2023-10-10 101737.png](///raw/595/84/z/601ea.png)

For the leaderboard
Jimbly
10. Oct 2023 · 23:44 UTC
HTML emulator doesn't seem to accept controller input :(. Tried it in Nestopia and got "Unsupported or malformed mapper" when loading :(. Similar error in Nester. Nesticle95 didn't run (why do I have so many old NES emulators installed?). Finally seemed to work in FCEUX =).

This was really brilliant! I loved having to balance building up for a big combo but blocking off my own space to move around, that felt really good. At first I thought that the falling blocks would hurt me, and this was exacerbated by the flickering of the block/character when overlapped, but I quickly realized that was likely just NES sprite flickering, not actual feedback. My best score: 297 (second attempt). (edit: oh, sweet, that's top of the leaderboard!)

![miroh.png](///raw/dd3/z/6024d.png)
Natano
12. Oct 2023 · 02:00 UTC
![Captura de tela 2023-10-11 225708.jpg](///raw/188/b5/z/60315.jpg)

my record lol

I didn't expect to be so addicted to a game made in 3 days, what a good surprise. I loved the game, at first it seems simple and not very innovative, but when you play it shows what it really is. The soundtrack is very good, the game is challenging, changing between pieces and characters is difficult but it's a great mechanic, you feel like you're in a mix of Pacman and Tetris that makes you want to try more and more ways to survive. Great game, congratulations!!
Branquelo
12. Oct 2023 · 18:09 UTC
![imagem_2023-10-12_150854098.png](///raw/86c/8/z/60368.png)

Cara, que jogo divertido e viciante. Gostei de mais de como ele foi construído, a dificuldade é muito boa e a mistura de você ter que se mover constantemente, gerar a fome, e ainda ter que jogar um Tetris ao mesmo tempo, ao mesmo tempo que é estressante, é divertido. Parabéns!
LDJam user 250426
13. Oct 2023 · 03:45 UTC
![Miroh2.png](///raw/a32/d3/z/603a2.png) ![Miroh3.png](///raw/a32/d3/z/603a3.png)
great postjam changes! managed 293 on new version (in the same run i accidentally trapped myself too) xD
i think it would be dope if the apple blinks a bit before it disappears, there was a couple times im just 4 centimeters away and it despawns right before i get it lmao

overall very fun game, and clever use of theme!
LDJam user 352652
13. Oct 2023 · 11:26 UTC
Lovely graphics, and addicting gameplay. I consider it damn impressive that a game this solid was made for the NES in just 72h.
LDJam user 277851
14. Oct 2023 · 08:01 UTC
I love this kind of game developed for an old gaming platform, it's an amazing challenge. Normally I'd play it with the emulator on my almighty nds, but it runs black screen on the nesds. I had to play it in the browser.
Great game. The combination of mazes and tetris is very creative. For a nes game it's pretty good.
moonlightbomber
14. Oct 2023 · 23:03 UTC
Nice. Another NES game.
TPace
14. Oct 2023 · 23:24 UTC
I love games mixing genres, and this was just one of those jam pearls you keep playing later. Muito bom, parabéns!!
LDJam user 206001
17. Oct 2023 · 03:07 UTC
Interesting mix of tetris and maze. But I don't know if it works very well in the long term in gameplay. I don't think it's very fun, but technically it was very well done for a jam
alexrose
18. Oct 2023 · 13:29 UTC
oh! ping me on this because I have my mister now, I am busy atm finally rating all the games I played but I will have another go on my fpga later
🎤 Wendel Scardua
21. Oct 2023 · 14:07 UTC
@alexrose ping! I'm not sure if it *will* work on MiSTer but it probably should; I tried looking it up and apparently it does support the mapper I'm using (mapper 028)