Fizzles – Original Puzzle Rescue Game With Playable Level 1 Demo

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Thank you, that is still very useful even without a video.

The Level 5 planter bug description helps. If only one Fizzle turned around at the end point of a plant while all others passed the same point correctly, then it may be related to a very specific position, collision edge, or state of that individual Fizzle. The note that it may have been the same Fizzle that created the plant is especially interesting. I will keep that in mind when checking the planter / bridge logic.

It sounds like the end of one bridge segment may sometimes be treated like a solid edge or blocker for one Fizzle, while the path is valid for the others. That is definitely not intended. Even if it is rare, it is the kind of bug that can become annoying in later levels, so I will investigate it.

About pausing: I understand your point much better now. Coming from NeoLemmix, assigning skills while paused is a very natural habit, and I can see how Fizzles feels different or awkward from that perspective.

For Fizzles, I still want to keep the core direction mobile-first and more real-time than NeoLemmix. I do not currently plan to make paused skill assignment part of the main gameplay, because that would change the feel of the levels quite a lot.

But your concern about the moving skill popup is very valid. If later levels offer four or five possible skills at once, clicking the correct icon above a moving Fizzle could become too fiddly, especially on touch devices. That is something I need to handle carefully.

Possible solutions could be larger skill buttons, a more stable popup position, better spacing, limiting the number of visible choices depending on context, or another mobile-friendly selection layout. The goal should not be to make players fight the interface. If a level is difficult, it should be difficult because of the puzzle decision, not because the correct icon is hard to tap.

So I will keep the pause design as a separate question, but I fully agree that the skill selection UI must stay readable and reliable once more abilities are available.

Thanks again. This is very helpful feedback, especially because it points to problems that may only become obvious when the game grows beyond the first tutorial-style levels.