Jellygon field notes
Useful answers for a pile that will not sit still
Tested strategy, plain-language physics, and puzzle game recommendations based on actual play.
We tested five play styles across 250 drop-and-merge games
Aiming for reachable matches clearly beat random placement. The finer arguments about organizing the board finished much closer than expected.
250 complete games
5 play styles
1 useful default
What changes when a merge game uses soft-body physics?
The pieces flatten, wedge into gaps, move their neighbors, and turn deformation into part of the puzzle.
Player-facing explainer
Rigid vs. soft
We shipped a win condition that was geometrically impossible
Roughly 3,200 automated games found the packing wall and turned one tuning constant into a measured difficulty curve.
3,200 automated games
7 tuning values
We picked Rust for the platforms. The surprise payoff was working with AI.
One soft-body game core reached the browser, iPhone, and macOS—and made imperfect AI-assisted work easier to compile, replay, and review.
Browser + iPhone + macOS
Deterministic verification
Try the pile yourself
Drop, squish, and merge Jellygon's wobbling polygons without installing anything.