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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #702 | 3.414 | 3.414 |
| Overall | #870 | 3.414 | 3.414 |
| Originality | #1410 | 3.362 | 3.362 |
| Presentation | #2372 | 2.879 | 2.879 |
Ranked from 58 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 player is partially out of their control inputs, which can be (re)gained and lost through the gameplay
Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
Yes
We created all art during the game jam
Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
Yes
We created all audio during the game jam
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Liked the game but I couldn't turn right to grab a block even when I had the right key activated if I was facing up or down in the heart level and I couldn't tell if it was a bug or designed that way and i was just failing at the puzzle.
Not sure. If it was a bug, I haven't discovered it yet. Or it could be that you had a block to the right of you, which would prevent you from turning, even though the key is active. The character will only turn if they can actually move in that direction. If that was the case, it was by design; if that's good design is of course debatable :)
Thank you for the feedback!
Good to know that was intentional, didn't notice that in earlier puzzles but I think it's a good choice, I'll go back and give that level another go now that I know it was my own fault for not solving it 😅
Gameplay and level design are fun and well designed, great job! I think the concept could have been slightly more original (but that's probably just because I've seen several games where you try to recover the control key these past few days).
Nice mechanic, I really liked the puzzles throughout. Cool game!
nice game i really liked the puzzles
I really like the game, some neat and confusing puzzles. Could definitely be fleshed out into a full game.
Nice game!
Pretty nice game! I really liked the idea, and the puzzles are really clever! This could be a full game! Congratulations!
Clever puzzle game! Love the idea of not having control of some keys unless the box is over it. Very "baba is you" in that regard. The levels are challenging but don't feel impossible (I did have to quit eventually because I was absolutely stumped by one of them haha but that's on me) and there's instant feedback when you feel you've made a terrible mistake. Always a great sign of well designed levels.
As others have said I would have loved an undo button, it would make backtracking and redoing mistakes a lot easier than remembering what steps I took and starting over completely.
All in all great work!
Not usually a fan of puzzle games but really enjoyed this one. Great Job!
i just realized i spent 30 min playing this. Very good.
Very nice! I like the art, the game idea and the levels, but it would be nice if you're also can just go one step back!
This was a quite addictive game. Love your interpretation of the theme!
Quite a nice puzzle-game with "Baba is you" vibes on the side. I liked it!
Neat puzzle concepting! Kind of reminds me of Baba is You, very easy to understand controls and good presentation of what you can do at this moment. It's also really good that once you get stuck, the game immediately resets & tells you, so you don't fiddle around for a while. Great execution of a pretty original concept!
Thanks for the feedback.
When I started with the idea I thought more of "Sokoban" than "Baba is You", because I have to shamefully admit, that I haven't played "Baba is You" yet. I really need to do that very soon :)
Wow, this got very difficult after the tutorial ended, and was a great interpretation on the theme, nicely done.
First and for must I must say: Great job with the pun!
The idea itself is also pretty amazing and of course also how you implemented it. Very nice and easy to get into mechanic but the difficulty lies in the puzzle. And the puzzles were also at a pretty good level. I didn't always see a direct difficulty curve but that is just a minor side note. Sadly I sort of rage quit in one level, where once you solved the issues, you had to run around 100 times to move the crates, which was a bit annoying. Because one mistake led to another 100 steps to take... (a take a step back button might have helped there). But that is just one level out of all the cool ones I played so far.
I didn't get to the end, which is why I can't say if you introduced something with the ‘ctrl‘ key but until the point I played, I missed the useful part of being in/with 'ctrl'. But this is also a minor inconvenience in this otherwise amazing adventure :)
Good Job!
Thanks a lot for your feedback.
So, the level you rage quite at was btw. the last one, and there was a reason why I put it in the end; sorry about that one :). So all you really missed is the "Thanks for playing" screen.
The CTRL key is never introduced in the game. It plays into the "You're out of CTRL" joke, so you'll never use that key. That was actually a last minute pun I put into the game :)
With the difficulty curve it was a bit tricky. I kinda reordered the levels in the end, based on how hard I thought they are. As the creator of the levels, that's not that easy to tell though. In the end everything was all over the place; I just made sure that the annoying one is in the end.
Well, I think you did a good job with the difficulty scaling, there might have been 1 level that was more easy than it should have been but for the most part it felt very smooth. And cool to see that in the end I did make it to the end :)
And a big WOW to the CTRL part because it looks so obvious that this is the main goal and the initial plan all along that you assume it is a big part of the story but in the end it was a last minute idea :)
Keep up being PUNtastic ;)
Was the one level that was more easy than it should the heart shaped one? I noticed that you had to solve only half the puzzle to finish the level, but at that point it was too late to fix it; I wonder if other levels might have similar issues.
Yeah, probably. I noticed that in one level I moved some of the crates but not all of them and I used only half the board. So I thought that it was an unintentional way of solving it but... oh well it's a feature not a bug ;)
Btw. love the communication we have across boards :)
the game was fun and I liked the concept and I got to use my brain
Loved the puzzles! They felt really well thought out. Tho there are several non-trivial design choices that took me a while to pick up like not being able to turn around on a tile. Also, try adding more different horse trotting sound effects, they get old after a while
Hehe, those horse trotting sounds are actually my shoes tapping on the floor. I had to speed it up though, because I don't have animations and it can't play for that long :)
I thought about the turning around issue, but decided to work the way it works into the puzzles instead of changing it. I'm not loving the movement, but I'm satisfied with it; I think with a bit more time, it would've turned out a little better.