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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #36 | 4.350 | 4.350 |
| Overall | #164 | 3.989 | 3.989 |
| Fun | #302 | 3.767 | 3.767 |
| Presentation | #576 | 3.850 | 3.850 |
Ranked from 60 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?
"Gluing" together map fragments to traverse through an infinite tower, and uncovering the intrinsic recursive connections that bind floors together. In both cases, the player also experiences the fragility of theses connections, as entire floors of the tower are wiped from the player's cartographical canon.
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing art
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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Great puzzle game, I couldn't even solve all of it. Nice art as well.
This is amazing, this mechanic blew my mind and even if I wasn't able to complete everything it was still a great experience, I liked it a lot
Incredible puzzle design, loved every bit of it! Maybe 7 was a bit too easy after you figured out 6 (which was really nice), but overall loved the unique and mindbending aspect of it. Nice work!
Nice game. Was not able to complete all of it because I am not smart enough :p but I still enjoyed it. Keep up the good work.
Good game! Well presented, lovely minimal sounds (with the recommended music). I've seen a few recursion based games, but nothing quite like this.
Couldn't figure out level 6 or 7, but that's probably just the limit of my recursive thinking! Would have appreciated a walkthrough video, perhaps.
I must have missed something, level 5 is impossible since i cannot move blocks after i go through them. the ladder only allows up and down travel and there are no blocks that allow travel in the right direction other than the straight hall block and i run out of space when trying to travel down. What do i do? Otherwise, game looks good, feels good. Especially for a game built in 2 days. For the audience that likes puzzles and a challenge, Im not sure if its possible but i guess people have done it so It must be pretty good. some background music would make this even better
Hi Banshee, thanks for playing.
If you want to give level 5 another shot, here's a gentle hint:
The secret is in the "memory" tile that you gained during the interlude. You can drag a tile to your memory to remember it, which will allow a tile to stick around when it should otherwise be blinked out of existence.
Or, here's the outright spoiler (paste this text into rot13.com to see)
The presentation is god tier, and the concept is really good. However, it feels like the puzzles definitely did not fully exploited what is possible within the concept, The last 2 levels are relatively hard but they are definitely still way too easy for the concept, which is a shame because I like everything about the game except that it's too easy, I supposed it says "brief introduction" for a reason.
Very cool, but I feel like i may have cheesed the final puzzle.
Thanks for playing! Cheese is always an acceptable countermeasure to the absence of playtesting :)
Unique ! But sometimes confusing...
This is very cool, but I got lost once the memory is introduced. I like the aesthetic, but I found the ladders to be confusing.
Extremely interesting concept and honestly if a friend sent me a link I would not think this was anything other than a finished game!
My one complaint is that first ladder climb spooked me to no end, it has an oddly binaural sound to it that made me think someone knocked on the metal mesh of my window hahah
Great entry and awesome job coming up with something so unique :)
Beautiful use of recursion in a puzzle. I'm surprised that such difficult yet interesting levels can be made using so little.
The only problem I have is that the levels get hard very quickly (at least for me). I got stuck on level 5.
Great job on the game!
Super tricky, but satisfying puzzles. Wish the audio was actually part of the game, but it does suit the mood pretty perfectly.
A mind-bending puzzle. I've very bad at puzzle games so I couldn't get through it but even from the first few levels I can see that the game can lead to some really fiendish puzzles. The presentation of the game was top notch, really impressive for the time limit.
Very neat! The last three levels were Recursed-level headscratchers. The core concept also seems to have enough depth to expand it even further. And thanks for the music recommendation. :)
What a challenging puzzle game!
This is great, definitely one of the more interesting jam games.
Have a great time playing it, like the concept and its really challenging. It could have some dungeonish sounds for ambient, not exactly music i like it music less, but something to break so much silent and get more immersive into the game.
Great concept amazing execution :O The game makes you think hard i love it. I would like to see more levels and ideas for this game its kinda samey at this time. Other than that i had a great time. Amazing work :D
I'm absolutely amazed. The idea is so simple, yet so clever. And there's a lot of opportunities to go further with differently shaped rooms, more rules and goals.
I had great time playing this little gem to the very end.
I'm hoping you had a lot of fun making this and that you'll continue to expand on the idea after the jam ends, cheers!