Thanks for the detailed feedback :) I agree that the tutorial ramping up in somewhat an educative manner would be interesting. Will definitely try that if I work on this further. I’m not entirely sure if there’s a better way to deal with the controls, since I just co-opted the standard keys from graphical programs.. have to think about this.

Will also keep in mind the suggestion for the color scheme. I didn’t have too much choice there this time since I had to make the art on my own and I’m painfully unskilled 😅. I’m not too sure if it’ll perform well outside a jam too (quite frankly, not sure if it performed well within jam either, given how divisive the responses are!). We shall see!

Thanks for playing!

Thank you so much! I notice a few comments pop up here and there about the sound (though yours is the most in-depth so far) and I'm glad to see my wacky choices are appreciated. I decided early on to go full synths because the aesthetic reminded my of Tron - bright things on black background and a neon grid. The melodic stuff wormed its way into the design once I made the forge sound. I realised that since I didn't have time to write music, I might as well go all in on that stuff.

Yes indeed, you can morph the shape during and after you’re done drawing, just not once you’ve filled it in. I’m glad you enjoyed!

Thank you for playing and sharing your thoughts! It quite helped me realize what the players generally missed (which seems to be able to utilize the transformations to their full extent since I provided no demonstration through tutorial levels!). Stuff like this for e.g. as I noticed you tend to try drawing with just the plain grid.

I want to say I really appreciated your inquisitiveness into both details regarding the math involved in the game as well as to my research :P. In fact, I originally intended this game to have some educational value and I think you were the only one who displayed some interest in that side! So here is one resource that might help: https://xaktly.com/Matrix2Dtransformation.html . If you try multiply Kx * Ky, it’ll turn out to not be equal to Ky * Kx! Scaling on the other hand (like stretching the whole grid) would commute, because they can be written as diagonal matrices.

I guess this is not extremely satisfying tbh, more of an empirical way to justify it. A deeper understanding can somehow be understood by learning more about group theory and in particular the group of 2D transformations on euclidean space. It involves rather abstract ideas but incredibly generalized results. I’m sorry for the exposition xP this stuff gets me quite excited!

Good points! The thing is, I initially planned to do exactly that and hand-design puzzles, but I ran out of time. So instead, the shapes are generated randomly and the goal is not to exactly match the vertices, but to cover the area as close as possible without leaking out of the hole. Its not as satisfying perhaps, but it was the only way I could crank out a functional game.

Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts.