Great puzzles, atmosphere and mechanics!
100% recommendation for everyone who stomps on this game.
A few questions:
1. I did not understand what to do after I activated the towers outside, I teleported into the central building and the puzzles were off, what was I supposed to do?
2. The puzzles seemed to finish when the light touched the spheres, but not all different color spheres simultaneously. (I mean I could make the light touch the green sphere, then stop touching it, but touch the next color and the puzzle will be considered solved although I felt like all spheres should be lit at the same time).
Was this intentional?
Play game
The Last S.T.A.N.D's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Mechanics | #41 | 3.880 | 3.880 |
| Story | #88 | 3.440 | 3.440 |
| Overall | #102 | 3.760 | 3.760 |
| Music | #146 | 3.560 | 3.560 |
| Fun | #155 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
| Aesthetics | #168 | 3.880 | 3.880 |
| Sound | #194 | 3.280 | 3.280 |
| Theme | #377 | 3.360 | 3.360 |
Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How many people worked on this game in total?
3
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/fantastic-village-pack , https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/stylized-fantasy-provencal. Royalty free music from sources such as Pixabay.
Comments
196 days ago(+1)
Thank you for your feedback and the recommendation. I really makes our day to hear people enjoy the game.
As for your questions:
1. You were right to enter the central building. There is an active puzzle at the top of the stairs with a purple laser. I realized after watching some people play that the laser is not sure visible, and because of the "new" color, it is not as noticeable when you walk up there. Definitely something to look at in the future. Thanks for mentioning it.
2. Your instincts were correct. All spheres must be lit up at the same time for the puzzle to be complete, however this is a bug we had in the version. We have already created a fix for it, but because it is not "game breaking" we are holding back on the deploy until after the voting ends, to give everyone the same experience when playing the game. The patch will be deployed soon after the voting ends (including a few other small bug fixes), so if you feel like playing it again, that might be a good time to give it a go. (There is also a secret to find as extra motivation if you haven't found it yet)
Thanks again for playing. We really appreciate it and your valuable feedback
196 days ago(+1)
We are glad you liked it. We have a few bug fixes ready to deploy after the coting ends for the game jam, so check back soon for a slightly better version of the game.
Thank you for playing. Sorry to hear that you couldn't complete the game. We really appreciate you playing it though. This being a game jam (and the fact that the puzzles took us a few days to come up with), meant we didn't have time to optimize for performance. We do have a few ideas for that if we decide to take this game a bit further. Thanks so much for the feedback
Thanks for playing the game. We are glad we left a memory. And thanks for the feedback on the puzzles. We were kind of going for The Witness vibe where half the problem is figuring out what the puzzle is expecting, and the other half is actually getting the solution. But maybe a few hints to get you started might be a good idea. Thanks again
For the longest time I thought the puzzles with more than one laser/target needed to all be lit up at the same time in order to be completed. I spent the longest time on one and then it suddenly completed in this state:
After that it was pretty simple, knowing I only needed to hit one sphere at a time. Strangely the final area unlocked when I'd only gotten three out of four lights done in the ceiling puzzle, I was on my way trying to find the source of the fourth laser (the blue one, I think) when I saw the glowing disc and got teleported inside. Was the ceiling puzzle a bonus, secret thing?
I liked being able to run around extremely fast. :)
198 days ago(+1)
Thank you so much for taking the time to play and your valuable feedback!
Your initial instincts were actually correct - the idea is to have all targets lit up at the same time (and yes, the puzzle you posted is solvable in that way ;D). In the uploaded build it's a bug that allows a puzzle to be solved if a target was hit at least once at some point.
It has already been fixed, but we will upload the fix after the jam voting period has completed as it's not a game breaking bug (in fact, it's the opposite? =D)
If by 'ceiling puzzle' you are referring to the puzzle inside the ceiling of the shrine inside the village, then yes, that's a secret puzzle =)
198 days ago (+1)
Well done for finding it! There's unfortunately no pay-off for solving it apart from the satisfaction =)
198 days ago(+1)
Hi. Thanks for playing our game and your great feedback. We really enjoyed making it and love to see others enjoy playing it.
I will post the location of the hidden puzzles below. If you wanted the solutions to the puzzles instead, I can DM those to you.
I can't see a way to hide spoiler text, so will just add a note:
SPOILER: the following text has spoilers on a secret hidden puzzle
The secret puzzle found in the shrine in the village needs 4 other puzzles to be solved before it can be solved.
The 4 hidden puzzles display the initials of the 3 people that worked on the game, (CJ, JM and RB), and then the white puzzle is like any other puzzle with no specific message. These are hidden all over the map. Once one of them, is activated you can follow the laser to where the final secret puzzle is located.
Red is hidden by the house that is under construction in the village
Green is hidden by that hay near the windmills
Blue is hidden under some rubble (fallen floor) on the ground floor
White is behind some trees on a hill, behind the tower that shoots the green laser towards the center tower
Once you have solved all those puzzles you will have the necessary lasers to solve the final hidden puzzle.
Unfortunately there is no reward for solving the final puzzle other than the satisfaction of doing it. But great job in finding it.
199 days ago(+1)
Thank you for taking the time to play our game, especially one that's in a genre not in your regular wheelhouse. And thank you very much for the kind feedback!
Highly appreciated.
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