Znax
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Znax is a sort of puzzle / arcade game where you as the player need to select 4 blocks of the same color and form rectangles as big as you can. By doing this you will erase all blocks in this rectangle and they will be replaced by new blocks. You keep on doing this till the time runs out, and try to gain your highest score possible.
There are two game modes, Relative timer and fixed Timer, in the first mode you'll also gain extra time for deleting blocks so you can play longer if you are fast enough. With the second mode you don't get extra time for deleting blocks but just points added to your score so here you try to get the highest amount of points in the given time period.
How To Play
The game is fully playable using the mouse, keyboard, touchscreen and gamepads.
- arrow keys / d-pad: Move in menu's, Move the cursor around while playing.
- enter / mouse button / touch / Button A: Select a menu option, Select one block.
- Key L / Button Y: Load the following skin.
- Key F: Switch between full screen and windowed mode
- Escape / Button Back: Quit to menu, Quit game
- Key pageup / Button LB: Decrease Volume
- Key pagedown / Button RB: Increase Volume
- Entering a high score name :
- arrow up & down / d-pad up & down: Cycle through the letters.
- arrow right / d-pad right: Move to the following letter.
- arrow left / d-pad left: Move to the previous letter.
- To erase a letter you have to choose the whitespace.
- Name Entering is not possible using touchscreen but scores will be saved
Download
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Development log
- Znax Mac Os native version releasedDec 15, 2023
- Linux AppImage and Direct launch version updatedMay 14, 2023
- Znax version 1.1 ReleasedMay 10, 2022
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I really enjoyed this game and it feels like one of the more innovative mechanics for match games but I find that it is somewhat easy to cheese endless mode by biding your time to make the max combo (the 4 corners of the entire board) and leaving it on standby to reset the whole board when you need it at which point you start accumulating more time than you'll ever use up and any chalenge element has been trivialized. I think an easy way to make that no longer an issue would be to make the timer go down increasingly faster with a speed cap like tetris, and maybe since its counted in seconds in order to not make it jarring to suddenly change the measuring unit the timer could be changed to some kind of visual counter, perhaps a decreasing bar, which, now that I'm saying it, would also likely imply a max time cap, which could be a better alternative because using both measures at once sounds like overkill.
it would also benefit from some polish in the way of a mute button, a confirm window on the quit option and highscore registering to account for misclicks and typos, a higher definition for the font and above all else a pause button.
Neat little puzzle game. I wish there was a way to turn off the music though. The music is okay for a bit, but gets repetitive pretty fast. Had to delete the music file to get around the absence of a mute option.
I like it. I recommend watching the video. I was confused even with the description.