Game Description for Submission
\nFacing 13 is a puzzle game where you help Tessa overcome her fear of the number 13 (triskaidekaphobia). Every 13 seconds, a “13” block appears, increasing Tessa’s fear meter. To stop it, match the 3x3 block pattern in the 5x5 grid below, lowering her fear. Clear all the block 13s to help Tessa overcome her fear.
\nControls
\nMatch the patterns before Tessa’s fear meter fills up and game over!
\n","source":"LakshmanKishore/facing13","stars":0,"comments":[{"at":378963577,"author":"Cody Ebberson","login":"codyebberson","gh":749094,"url":"https://cody.ebberson.com","twitter":"codyebberson","text":"I helped Tessa overcome her fears in 91 moves. Nice job!
\n","games":["Phantomicus"]},{"typ":1,"at":378999251,"re":378963577,"author":"Lakshman","login":"LakshmanKishore","gh":61258323,"url":"lakshman.vercel.app","twitter":"Lakshman007bff","text":"Thanks for playing my game and helping Tessa overcome her fear.
\n"},{"at":379154952,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Nice idea and works with the theme. I think adding in some movement animations would have been good.
\n","games":["The Fear Factory"]},{"typ":1,"at":379174018,"re":379154952,"author":"Lakshman","login":"LakshmanKishore","gh":61258323,"url":"lakshman.vercel.app","twitter":"Lakshman007bff","text":"Thanks for playing my game and the suggestion!!\nI had so many ideas, but forgot about animations.\nMaybe next time!
\n"},{"at":379211167,"author":"IroncladDev","login":"IroncladDev","gh":50180265,"url":"https://connerow.dev/","twitter":"IroncladDev","text":"This was really fun, but the theme doesn’t really flow alongside the gameplay
\nControls were easy to use and intuitive
\nGreat job
\n","games":["Salvadoran Reclamation: MS-13"]},{"typ":1,"at":379211971,"re":379211167,"author":"Lakshman","login":"LakshmanKishore","gh":61258323,"url":"lakshman.vercel.app","twitter":"Lakshman007bff","text":"Thanks for playing my game!!\nI tried my best to link the theme with the game. Glad that controls were easy
\n"},{"at":379725744,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"I completed the game with 77 moves, I didn’t see any 13s appear this time, although I’m pretty sure I did when I played before the voting started.
\nThe game was easy to pick up and know how to play.
\nSound effects were good.
\nI think it would be neat if when you match a pattern it highlighted it on the grid and then maybe those blocks disappear with the ones above falling to fill the space (a bit like when you complete a line in tetirs)
\n","games":["rollermaze"]},{"typ":1,"at":379778661,"re":379725744,"author":"Lakshman","login":"LakshmanKishore","gh":61258323,"url":"lakshman.vercel.app","twitter":"Lakshman007bff","text":"Thanks for playing my game!\nI had other ideas for the game, but couldn’t complete, so had to stop it in this stage.\nThanks for the suggestions.
\n"},{"at":379938686,"author":"Steven Lambert","login":"straker","gh":2433219,"url":"https://stevenklambert.com/","twitter":"StevenKLambert","text":"It was interesting that you came up with a meaning behind all the different symbols, and that they all related to trying to overcome fear.
\nAt first I thought this was a match 3 game. It took me some time to realize that the pattern I was suppose to match was next to the number 13s at the top. Once I figured that out I was able to play the game.
\n","games":["The Encroaching Darkness"]},{"typ":1,"at":379951978,"re":379938686,"author":"Lakshman","login":"LakshmanKishore","gh":61258323,"url":"lakshman.vercel.app","twitter":"Lakshman007bff","text":"Thanks for playing my game!\nGlad you enjoyed it and figured it.\nI wanted to keep it unique so didn’t replicate the match 3 game.
\n"},{"at":380070881,"author":"Almut Kieffer-Jones","login":"mxlle","gh":6170306,"text":"Fun game idea! Nice graphics and gameplay.
\nI feel like the theme integration was a bit too artificial and the 13 element didn’t fully fit the other graphics. Though it was a good “save” with the story spun around it.
\nControls were good, though could have benefitted from additionally allowing to click on two neighboring cells.
\nNice that you added a switch for light and dark theme
\n","games":["The Society of Multiphobics"]},{"typ":1,"at":380077327,"re":380070881,"author":"Lakshman","login":"LakshmanKishore","gh":61258323,"url":"lakshman.vercel.app","twitter":"Lakshman007bff","text":"Thanks for playing my game!\nI spent so much of time thinking about the theme and ended up building this version.
\n"},{"at":380101837,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"It’s an interesting puzzle. The sounds were painful and loud. The instructions were not clear, i didn’t understand what the “3x3” was.
\n","games":["Thirteen Terrible Stunts"]},{"typ":1,"at":380124483,"re":380101837,"author":"Lakshman","login":"LakshmanKishore","gh":61258323,"url":"lakshman.vercel.app","twitter":"Lakshman007bff","text":"Thanks for playing my game!
\nInteresting puzzle that perfectly fits the theme.\nI really liked the switch button between dark and clear mode, great idea :)
\n","games":["Unloved 13"]},{"typ":1,"at":380306182,"re":380183772,"author":"Lakshman","login":"LakshmanKishore","gh":61258323,"url":"lakshman.vercel.app","twitter":"Lakshman007bff","text":"Thanks for playing my game!!\nGlad you liked it.
\n"},{"at":380186057,"author":"Samuel van Egmond","login":"SamuelVanEgmond","gh":95985602,"text":"Nice game good graphics, fun concept.
\nI didn’t like the controls much, it needed some feedback, and I feel clicking would have worked better here.
\nOverall nice, well done!
\n","games":["The King's Crowns"]},{"typ":1,"at":380306300,"re":380186057,"author":"Lakshman","login":"LakshmanKishore","gh":61258323,"url":"lakshman.vercel.app","twitter":"Lakshman007bff","text":"Thanks for playing my game!\nMy initial thought was to have click as the control, but I thought swipe would be more interactive.
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":380443575,"author":"Victor Debone","login":"debone","gh":763457,"url":"https://javascri.pl/","twitter":"javascripl","text":"Hello! Thanks for your submission to js13k!\nI’m sure you’ve worked hard on your game, but I’m not aware of how much time you spent on it, so excuse me if things I mention were in your mind, but got left out in the rush of the month or just because you hit the 13kb limit :)
\nThanks for playing my game and for your suggestions.\nI spent most of my time in the ideation phase due to which, I was not able to add more game elements or improve the game a bit more, and yes I’m aware about most of the things that you told, but thanks for the improvement suggestions.
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":380478510,"author":"Björn Ritzl","login":"britzl","gh":1300688,"url":"www.defold.com","twitter":"bjornritzl","text":"I have no idea what I’m supposed to do despite reading the instructions multiple times and trying out different things.
\n"},{"typ":1,"at":380479717,"re":380478510,"author":"Lakshman","login":"LakshmanKishore","gh":61258323,"url":"lakshman.vercel.app","twitter":"Lakshman007bff","text":"Thanks for showing your interest in playing my game!\nI have tried my best to keep the description beginner friendly.\nThe only goal is to swap the blocks present on the 5x5 grid, and then imitate the pattern that is being displayed side to the 1st 13 number( which is present above the 5x5 grid).
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