While there's still room for improvement, we believe that this new iteration provides more leniency (allowing to grab blocks farther away) and better control (reducing block movements while rotating the ship).

All playtesters of the previous version were reporting the same feedback: using the tractor beam, which is the main action of the game, was very difficult and unsatisfactory.

Starship Olympics - Falling Block Jam Edition by notapixelstudio for Improve My Game Jam 41 A minigame for Starship Olympics, made for the Falling Block Jam 2025 and improved during Improve My Game Jam 41

Thanks to Improve My Game Jam 41, we just published a UX update for our Falling Blocks Edition of Starhip Olympics, providing a (hopefully) better experience in controlling the unruly tractor beam!

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Starship Olympics - Falling Block Jam Edition by notapixelstudio A minigame for Starship Olympics, made for the Falling Block Jam 2025

We managed to get Play from Browser working! (itch.io page updated)

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a bit of gameplay from our #GBJam + #FallingBlockJam entry - Professor Gambler's Bone Scrambler!

🔊 sound on @livvyglizzy.bsky.social's sick tunes~!

Falling Block Jam 2025 A game jam from 2025-09-13 to 2025-09-22 hosted by davemakes. The (optional) inspirational vibe for Falling Block Jam 2025 is: 📼Analog Memory📸 Pop in your favorite mixtape because we're taking a nosta...

That's the end of #FallingBlockJam! We got over 200 entries!! These games look INCREDIBLE, thank you to everyone who participated!
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Starship Olympics - Falling Block Jam Edition by notapixelstudio A minigame for Starship Olympics, made for the Falling Block Jam 2025

Just submitted! Our contribution to the #FallingBlockJam - A cooperative minigame for 1 to 4 players about grabbing falling blocks and clearing lines and colors!

Based on our in perpetual developement open source game Starship Olympics, made in #godot.

notapixel.itch.io/starship-oly...

actions that will contribute more to pushing against bluesky's censorship than a blackout:

-submitting a feedback request
-@ing moderation about it
-commenting on mods posts about it
-making and sharing memes (ex: "i consent!" sticker)
-leaving an app store review
-just generally posting about it

That is so clever!

We had problems too yesterday... today it seemed to work fine with .mov files, but it seems to me that Bluesky has a few issues with video upload

Rotation areas, basic scoring and... bugs! Lots of bugs! :D

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Improvement 1: More powerful wobbly outline while carrying a block

Uhmm... something went wrong with this video. Still getting the hang of Bluesky

I can't get this video to play on most platforms. Anyone having similar problems?

Wobbly tractor beam!

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Buggy and fiddly as hell but... we are getting there!

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here you go -

Thanks! :D We hope to include single player and co-op modes, and maybe a versus mode.

Full disclosure: the (local) multiplayer code, as well as character controls for the ships, are reused from our main project. All blocks-related code is brand new instead.

That's one of the best takes on the theme for sure! Nice work! :D

Wasting time adding a warpable grid effect instead of fixing physics bugs :D

Also... two players

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Music again by @tallbeard.itch.io aka Abstraction, except it gets distorted as you forget.
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Experimenting with rotating blocks in a dedicated area outside the grid.

...still struggling with physics when blocks are placed onto the Ship itself! XD

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Whooopsie ^_^'

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Early attempts at prototyping a new Starship Olympics minigame for the #FallingBlockJam !
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Porting to #godot 4 almost done!

notapixel.itch.io/starship-oly...