@2DArray yeah, I thought of this on a whim since a different game implemented this.
What about shaking the board, like in a pinball game? It wouldn't be limited, of course
@SteelWool someone else (on twitter) asked about a tilt function, too! this one seems very compelling to me. maybe you can only use it once, but then it recharges when you make another merge?
@2DArray if it recharges then it might mean that you're meant to use it whenever possible
@SteelWool hmmm true...might slow things down too much. maybe just three tilts per round or something...
@SteelWool this is a neat idea but it'd probably mean that matches can't register immediately, since otherwise it'd be weirdly-rare to get a triplet that all made contact on the exact same frame...might also make it harder to understand the color-order if sometimes it skipped one!