Official Praise Thread

[HackerOperJP]

After sitting down and playing Tidalis for about  20 levels and a few of the puzzles I have to say it's a good game.  It's a new type of gameplay (for me anyway) and I really enjoy it.  Those puzzles really make you think 

[keith.lamothe]

Glad you're enjoying it

[Junuxx]

This is great fun!   Thumbs up! I'm busy checking off all the achievements with pleasure ^^

However I'd also like to report a crash I had.  I was experimenting with a setup that allows virtually unlimited depth combo's, and when I was at a combo depth of about 80, the application halted and I got the message 'Too many heap sections' after which I had to terminate the program manually. I had been playing for about 2 hours which must have influenced it because I've reached combo depths of over 250 since. Guess garbage collection has some room for improvement?

Oh and one more thing. Sometimes you have to click 'Back' four or five times before you're back at the root menu, like when you finish a custom level in the editor and need to go back to play. A 'Home' button would be very useful I think.

[keith.lamothe]

Glad you're enjoying the game

And yea, if you go for an infinite-depth setup you are likely to get out-of-memory errors at some point (too many heap sections is one of those); the ones happening at 80 instead of 250+ after 2 hours of play may be due to the game holding onto other memory (the garbage collector itself is totally out of our hands), dunno.  I can take a look at some point to see if there's a better way of tracking all that intermediate data during a combo as just a summary rather than keeping all the blocks in memory, etc.  Strange that such a relatively small number of blocks would have an impact on that order of magnitude, however.

[Spikey00]

A link to the sound track needs to be reposted--my friend just got a copy of both the OSTs of Tidalis and AI War after I told him you lot had an iTunes album.   I'm sure there are others who would be interested.

[Castruccio]

I am a big AI War fan and I am just now getting deep into Tidalis.  I love it so far, and I hope more AI War fans try it. 

[abiscuit]

I'm bumping the sticky, so to speak.

I picked this game up during the Steam Winter Sale and I don't know why it took me this long to discover this game.  This game is deep, fun, and incredibly addictive.  I'll easily put Tidalis in the same breath as Tetris Attack and Meteos as my favorite puzzle games ever.  Soundtrack is amazing too, I'd like to get my hands on that if possible.

[keith.lamothe]

I'm bumping the sticky, so to speak.

I picked this game up during the Steam Winter Sale and I don't know why it took me this long to discover this game.  This game is deep, fun, and incredibly addictive.  I'll easily put Tidalis in the same breath as Tetris Attack and Meteos as my favorite puzzle games ever.  Soundtrack is amazing too, I'd like to get my hands on that if possible.

Very glad to hear you're enjoying it   Financially Tidalis was... a learning experience, let's say.  But the game itself is really quite good

[Stx11]

Tidalis has to be one of the most hidden, unknown, under-appreciated games in the known galaxy!!!

I've played it every day since I picked it up and got 3 copies for friends as Steam Gifts.

I've thoroughly enjoyed every moment while playing it and am very sad to see it has never gotten the exposure or recognition it deserves 

[keith.lamothe]

We tried

It's had a few daily deals and whatnot on steam, and there's quite a few purchased copies out there from that.  But yea, not widely known

[Oralordos]

I just got it the other day. I find myself becoming distracted by the music instead of playing far too often for my liking.

[Moonshine Fox]

The music is indeed absolutely awesome.