MSXdev23 #04 Pearl Rain

In Pearl Rain, you're seeking to find immense wealth and divine knowledge. In order to accumulate this, you have traveled to a sacred location where pearls fall from the sky, leaving them for you to collect.

Patrik's Retro Tech surprises us with his colorful puzzle game in which you are to shove pearls around, and also blow up some walls here and there, all while listening to some smashing PSG tunes.

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By JohnHassink

Ambassador (5671)

11-03-2023, 20:52

Every night before I go to sleep
Find a ticket, win a lottery
Scoop the pearls up from the sea
Cash them in and buy you all the things you need

By shalafi

Master (137)

12-03-2023, 00:50

As a fan of bejeweled, I like this one

By Bengalack

Paladin (747)

12-03-2023, 08:45

Me too. Huge fan of bejeweled (and not candy crush, mind you ) Nice to get this kind of game into msxdev.

By theNestruo

Champion (421)

12-03-2023, 14:32

Any chance to get an update with different shapes for the items (such as fruits or Columns' gems)?
I'm colourblind and colour 13 doesn't stand out from neither colour 4 nor 9. For me, the game is almost like the monochrome screenshot from the PDF :/ Shapes would make the game playable

By thalin

Resident (40)

12-03-2023, 15:19

I had an idea for this but I wansn't sure if it would work. What do you think about this idea? Maybe everyone would prefer this?

By gdx

Enlighted (6213)

13-03-2023, 00:47

It's less like pearls with signs in the middle. The title would no longer make sense if it weren't pearls anymore.

By theNestruo

Champion (421)

13-03-2023, 08:26

thalin wrote:

I had an idea for this but I wansn't sure if it would work.

Color blindness solutions are easy to test: just play the game emulating a monochrome screen

By JohnHassink

Ambassador (5671)

14-03-2023, 20:05

theNestruo wrote:

thalin wrote:

I had an idea for this but I wansn't sure if it would work.

Color blindness solutions are easy to test: just play the game emulating a monochrome screen

This question is really not to troll or to insult you, but that does mean that you have never fully seen how amazing your games look?

By tfh

Prophet (3346)

14-03-2023, 20:28

thalin wrote:

I had an idea for this but I wansn't sure if it would work. What do you think about this idea? Maybe everyone would prefer this?

Maybe make it an option to add these shapes in the middle of the pearl, maybe by pressing a key or something? This way you can keep it like it is for non-colorblind people :)

By Parn

Paladin (837)

16-03-2023, 11:51

I liked this game a lot! The graphics are nice and the music is excellent. Some sound effects would go a long way in making it feel a little bit more polished. As @theNestruo said, contrast could be improved, maybe by adding some texture to the pearls, and a different palette for MSX2 could also be useful. Also, this is not a dealbreaker to me, but sometimes I confuse the black cursor with the black bricks. I don't know if this is caused by some sight limitation I might have, though (I've had cataract surgery and my intraocular lenses sometimes play tricks with high contrast).

EDIT: I found it a bit better looking with the emulator in MSX2 mode, except for the cyan pearl which doesn't stand out much from the field's background color.

By ray2day

Paladin (743)

17-04-2023, 08:59

Nice!

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