New Game to test out- Drop Zone

Reminescent of Tetris: Drop Zone features some of our member's older cats.

Match up the tiles and just have some fun! Careful though, it is addicting!

Those of you who contributed photos of your cats- Thanks so much!

Drop Zone

My personal score is 72... I dare you to beat me

MA, I tried the game in Netscape, and there seemed to be a couple of glitches (when matches didn't work out), but it was fun. But when I got to "Game over" it seemed to freeze the screen, and I had to just use the Back button to get out of it.

When I tried in IE, the arrow buttons didn't work!

I'm sad, because I love tetris, and the cats make it even more fun.

Oh, and it must run really slowly on my computer, because I got to 192 before I let it just finish the game on its own.

Thanks Sammie, I will let Anne know and see what she has to say.

Fun!! i'm up to almost 200 but i have things i have to do

Got an 84 on my first try. I am not quite sure how I managed to get a Game Over, but I know I will be back......

OK, things seem to be working better, but still painfully slowly. I can get a really really high score by just playing for a long time. Not that I am complaining, I love addictive video games.

Sammie, which version of IE are you running? It seems to be fine on my IE6.0.

Thanks for the feedback. Do you think it's too hard? too easy? I can set up different speeds and different numbers of rows and columns (the fewer columns the more difficult it it).

Cool game!

I'm using IE 6.0 as well, its a new computer (or a 6 month old computer, which is still fairly new). And supposedly a fast CPU.

Its way too easy on my screen. Each tile takes up to 5 seconds to drop. I think that speed options would help. Is there a way that the game could speed up as time goes by? Those are always challenging.

The other thing I found, may be hard to explain. If two identical tiles land next to each other, they disappear. If there are 2 tiles the same touching diagonally, and a third falls to complete the L shape, all three disappear.

If one tile disappears forcing another to drop down into a space adjacent to an identical tile, nothing happens. If a third tile lands beside these two, only one (directly in contact with the new dropped tile) disappears.

However, if a column has a tile sequence a b a, one on top of another, and the middle tile, b, is taken out, you get a column with two identical a tiles one on top of another. Then if another tile the same drops on top of that, all three disappear.

These seem to be minor inconsistencies. I don't know if you can change anything, and its certainly something the player can get used to.

Can you tell I play waaaaaay too many video games?

I like the idea of making it wider and having the tiles fall a bit faster. Or, speed up as the game goes on, as suggested.

Neat! I got a 591 just now, my first time playing.

Wow Viva! How long did THAT take?

Hey Anne, is it possible to let the player accelerate the drop rate with the 'down' arrow?

Ok, there's an hour and 13 minutes out of my life that I can never get back.....I had to make myself lose at 420. Things were a little hairy around the 52 minute mark. I have a killer strategy going. It needs to go faster. I was clicking over to check email while they dropped.

LOL Deb! I told Anne they needed to drop faster too. The first one we tested she set at the limit of 100 points! Talk about an endless game! LOL

After 47 minutes and my bladder almost reputuring, I made it 561!
I was so happy to see my little girl Mimi on there! I miss her so much! BTW, she was the white kitty with a bit of orange on her ears and a tiny little speck on her nose.

Hissy, what happened to my pic's? Just curious!

I got 89 on my first try

Shell your pics are in the mail!

Thanks!

Phew! Now I just got 549 and it took me 38 minutes.I finally lost when I tried to go through a stack of pics. by accident of course.