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GatesNSwitches's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Innovation | #232 | 3.068 | 3.068 |
| Game Design | #414 | 2.818 | 2.818 |
| Graphics | #504 | 2.705 | 2.705 |
| Overall | #529 | 2.511 | 2.511 |
| Fun | #548 | 2.318 | 2.318 |
| Theme | #618 | 2.386 | 2.386 |
| Audio | #643 | 1.773 | 1.773 |
Ranked from 44 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The aim of the game is to let players dive deeper into what is going on inside their PC and enable them to explore the "depths" of binary logic.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
I wrote all the code myself, but the majority of the art assets came from the internet. I listed all the external assets I used on the itch page.
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Interesting game! I think without a puzzle mode this is a bit boring but you said that will be added eventually... I think the switches don't work that well but that might be a me problem... Anyway, good job and I hope to see a puzzle mode for this!
nice concept and great work! very cool and original
A really original and interesting take on the theme, love it ! Great potential if you want to expand the game after the jam, good job !
Voted! Good job =)
It seems like this could be a very interesting puzzle game, which I know you're working on! I'm excited to see what the project turns into, eventually. All the best, you've got something really interesting here!
I really loved your game so the kind words mean a lot coming from you, thanks! :)
Cool tech demo for current logic, but I don't see a connection [;^)] with the theme.
Haha nice pun! xD The idea was to make an educational puzzle game that teaches different aspects of binary logic and goes more in depth with each level, so players keep diving deeper into the topic. Since I only managed to finish the circuit simulation itself I can see how the idea didn’t came across quite as well. Now that I’ve build a solid basis I think I can still make the puzzle mode happen tough. :)
Anyways, thanks for playing!
Good sandbox for finding more about binary logic.
Nice idea for a more educational tool. For improvements I'd suggest that maybe helpful tooltips would be a good idea for those that are new to this type of thing. Also, nice sound design can elevate this further. Nice work nevertheless :)
Nice game, I would've liked it if you could hook up more than 1 thing to the components (like hooking up a switch to a gate, which is hooked up to a light bulb)
Also would've been great if the switch or bulb had sounds, with some chill music in the background.
But fun to experiment with gates and such.
Thanks for playing and good point with the music!
Could you futher explain what you mean by “hook up more then 1 thing to the components”? Each output can be connected to any number of inputs, but each input can only be connected to a single output as binary logic gates don’t allow for more than one value per input. (I’ll make sure to add additional color coding to make this clearer tough.) Or do you mean you would like an option to quickly connect multiple components at once? Creating a chain with a switch, gate and bulb should definitely be possible tough, so maybe you just ran into a bug. 😅
If you look at the game's icon you'll find something like what i'm describing.
This is possible in real life I believe, as you could hook up a switch to most things to establish a circuit.
Edit: actually, I see what you mean. I guess this isn't an issue at all
What i was describing was a chain of a gate, switch, and bulb but it doesn't seem to connect for me :/
Thanks for the explanation!
Sounds to me like you probably encountered a bug related to the cables. I’ve already rewritten the code for them as it was rather janky, so I hope these kinds of issues won’t show up in the post-jam version anymore. ^^
Yup, it seems like components have a sort of precedence over each other. Good luck on future development aswell!
The idea is really cool! it can has potential to be a very interesting puzzle game, I can understand that the level is still being working on and can't wait to see the full puzzle level! The material is there, it just need to be put together into an interesting set of levels!
Great little idea here personally my brains too small to understand what i can do so i was just connecting random things but i can see this will work great and when a puzzle mode comes out could kinda be educational too which is cool. well done on the submission
This is a very clever idea! I loved messing around with the switches. I feel like this game could be more satisfying with some sound effects, for example some pop's and clicks when you place a switch or something in that sense. Great job!
Thanks! :)
Yeah I agree, I’ll take this as a lesson to start implementing sounds asap in the future. I’ve always been adding sounds at the very end for some reason but this time I was so busy fixing bugs that I only realized they were still missing after the submission deadline. The fact that audio is a distinct category makes me a bit worried now 😅
For those who don't know what each of the symbols mean, see images on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate
Although I feel it isn't that fitting for the theme, this is an impressive little simulator. I can't imagine getting this to work was easy.
how does this fit with the theme? also what am i supposed to do? sounds fun to build a computer but idk how to use all of this stuff maybe a level type system which teaches you the mechanics?
Fun but too bad theres no actual game play, i enjoyed playing around with making some logic :)
Thanks! I originally wanted to create a whole campaign with pre-made logic puzzles but sadly ran out of time for the jam. I’ll probably do an update after the rating period ends tough. ;)
Fun but too bad theres no actual game play, i enjoyed playing around with making some logic :)
Good work, building a robust system like this under time constraints can be very challenging.
Thank you! I certainly encountered more bugs along the way than I would like to admit…
Cool sandbox game
Cool sandbox game
It's a very interesting circuit simulator, lacks the ability to copy and paste part of the circuit
True, totally forgot about that :p