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atomicduck3 years ago (7 edits)

Well ouch, you pointed pretty much every major flaw of the game we noticed, and we totally agree with you.

1) the bull in the wall

Yes, it's a bug, I forgot to round the position after each step, so the excess deltatime builds up when a game is too long, and it's especially noticeable on web player since the framerate is a bit lower. We noticed that a little bit after the closure of the submission, it was easily corrected, but too late :(

But the game is beatable since no puzzle is long enough for the offset to be 1/2 tile big.

2) the level 7 is super hard

Yes, the idea was to make one last level with only the basic elements of gameplay, but we underestimated it's difficulty. This was probably because we tested the puzzle with the solution in mind and not a lot of time.

3) the play button is not pointless

It prevents failed allocations and allow you to test allocations in your mind, it's useful later on too.

4) clunky UI and too long white screen

Yes, the white screen is way too long. 

Our game is far from perfect but the fact you are the first one to play it enough to find all the flaws means a lot to us ! 

So thank you !

Edit : for level 7 put 5 tiles on button 1 and 3 on button 2 (yes the UI doesn't suggest you should put 5 tiles in one move, sorry)

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anttihaavikko3 years ago (2 edits) (+1)

Oh right, crap, didn't even think of putting five moves there. So I guess you kinda gate out the content too early with too hard of a level if you do have some additional types of blocks too. Getting introduced to different types between similar levels (before going back to basic but difficult) would also greatly alleviate the monotony too. But yeah, getting difficulty right (in puzzle games especially) is hard. And even harder without external testers.

Puzzle games like this should always have some leeway to be able to skip for example one level to balance out the differences in players. I've tried even going as far as giving one level beat basically ability to skip four levels. The game (my last GitHub Game Off entry) had a star system and getting the max three stars and a completion would then unlock the next 3+1 levels. Noticed a pretty good amount of people beating the whole game of about 20 levels without really abusing the skips and getting comments about some levels they had to skip.

The play button is not needed! The functionality itself might be but the button isn't. The first click on the number keys could do the same thing really. And even the stop button could be kinda built in to happen when you just reorder the letter. That might be a bit annoying without warning though since it resets the puzzle.

edit: No need to give out the solution. Would probably find it easily enough knowing that could do 5:3.

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