Sci-Jewel: QNA and Discussion

[TMGYTofficial]

The steam hub for the upcoming Bejeweled spiritual successor, Sci-Jewel. Feel to ask anything about the game!

[READTHEE]

I'm more interested in whether this will have regional pricing or not.

Oh and if this will have annoying forced "hints" that show up if you take 2 seconds more to do something, ruining any fun, or not.

[TMGYTofficial]

Originally posted by READTHEE:

if this will have annoying forced "hints" that show up if you take 2 seconds more to do something, ruining any fun, or not.

Hints were a toggleable option in most Bejeweled games. It will be the same for Bejeweled 4.

[READTHEE]

Originally posted by TMGYTofficial:

Originally posted by READTHEE:

if this will have annoying forced "hints" that show up if you take 2 seconds more to do something, ruining any fun, or not.

Hints were a toggleable option in most Bejeweled games. It will be the same for Bejeweled 4.

Just to be clear, talking about this issue, where the game gives you tips every few seconds.

There is no way to turn that off in Bejeweled 3.

[PunchyTroll]

I've got a couple of questions.
1. Wouldn't making a game with the name "Bejeweled" get you in legal trouble?
2. What is the price going to be?
3. Is the game going to be moddable?

[TMGYTofficial]

Originally posted by PunchyTroll:

1. Wouldn't making a game with the name "Bejeweled" get you in legal trouble?
2. What is the price going to be?
3. Is the game going to be moddable?

1. Well, usually yes. Typically, when someone tries doing something like this, they get struck down. EA hasn't done that to this project, at least not yet. My guess is that they're waiting to see what I have planned and what will be featured.
2. For a similar reason as your above question, I can't actually confirm a price, but if I were to give an estimation, based on what's planned and what features the game will have, it would probably be worthy of about $10. Then again, I could be completely wrong. It IS an estimation.
3. The plan is for the game to support mods. This has been a mandatory feature ever since I first announced the game.

[PunchyTroll]

That's great. Also, is the gameplay going to be like the one in Bejeweled 2/3 or the one in Bejeweled Twist? It would be pretty cool if it will be both.

[TMGYTofficial]

Originally posted by PunchyTroll:

That's great. Also, is the gameplay going to be like the one in Bejeweled 2/3 or the one in Bejeweled Twist? It would be pretty cool if it will be both.

The gameplay will be like Bejeweled 2/3. A Twist Mode has also been confirmed.

[hydroblade.100]

Only two or technically three questions. 1) Out of curiosity, why switch back to sci-fi? I haven't played the first one mind you, but B2 was sci-fi and then B3 was fantasy. Not anything wrong with it, I just thought that each Bejeweled would have a different theme.

2) Is there going to be an art gallery? On my knowledge, the only gallery I know of exists in the PS2 port of PopCap Classics Vol 1(2?). None of the other versions of any game that I know of has one. I know that it shouldn't be the main priority, but I love looking at them.

3) I know that you suggest the Discord but I do not want to use it. May I have the email? I understand if you decline.

[HisBangalore]

Will there be a badge?

[TMGYTofficial]

Originally posted by hydroblade.100:

Only two or technically three questions...

1. Bejeweled 4 will revive the Sci-Fi aspect of the franchise, or at the very least attempt to. I always thought that Sci-Fi suited Bejeweled the best.
2. There will be a gallery in the form of a menu you unlock when fully completing Discovery Mode. In-case you might ask, Discovery is the Challenge/Quest mode of the game.
3. My email is a special case, as I'm not sure how Steam handles emails being posted in Discussion pages. I suggest hitting me up on Twitter (I use the same username; it should be listed in the Links section of my bio) as I have DMs open to anyone there.

[TMGYTofficial]

Originally posted by Sugar Schlong:

Will there be a badge?

Bejeweled 4 will have a badge-like system in the forms of Achievements. A menu will also hold the game's achievements, like how Bejeweled 3/Blitz did.

I did, at some point, plan to do Badges. I can't remember why I scrapped it, though.

[krag hag]

Will you add butt plug support?

[yoryeous]

i'd love to see a challenge system similar to bejeweled twist's, or at least a game mode where you can make permanent switches like in bejeweled twist to set up the gems so you can make like things happen, basically like the bejeweled twist challenge mode if you know what i mean

i would also like to see matching 7+ gems in a row make even better gems than the supernova gem, i feel like it makes sense

[TMGYTofficial]

Originally posted by luh:

i'd love to see a challenge system similar to bejeweled twist's, or at least a game mode where you can make permanent switches like in bejeweled twist to set up the gems so you can make like things happen, basically like the bejeweled twist challenge mode if you know what i mean

i would also like to see matching 7+ gems in a row make even better gems than the supernova gem, i feel like it makes sense

Discovery Mode will be the game's Challenge Mode. There will also be a lot of Objectives in Discovery Mode that will feature Matchless Swaps.

I can confirm that matching 7+ gems makes a gem better than Supernova, but that's something you'll have to find out about yourself! ;)

Originally posted by Erin:

Will you add butt plug support?

I legally cannot answer this question. To both keep this discussion open and rated E.

[PunchyTroll]

Originally posted by Wow:

You've probably already decided on the general look of the backgrounds, but I thought I'd ask just in case.

Any chance of planets with more life?

Bejeweled 2 had nice but empty planets.

In my opinion the music visualisers in Bejeweled Blitz are are better than Bejeweled 2's planets.