Fun game! I like it!
A cute little puzzle game with a not-too-strong learning curve. I like the fields that give help and sometimes first have to be reached by themselves with some small combination... Moving around the ice cubes felt at first a bit weird, but then I got a hang of it.
Possible improvements:
- The UI is a bit strange, in that it uses keyboard and mouse/keypad. It would be better to somehow have a key to activate the ice. I know it's sometimes not clear which ice you want to activate, but maybe that can be changed? Alternatively, the key might toggle through the available ice cubes or you might move entirely to mouse and offer buttons to click for the four directions as well. Switching back and forth between keyboard and mouse as it is now felt a bit awkward to me.
- The music is - weird. Is there a bug? I can hear some nice and fitting sounds and music and then most of the time an overlay of annoying sounds as if my computer was on fire or something is crumbling into pieces. I had to switch it off.
- The art is working, nothing fancy or impressive, but clear. A bit more style might be nicer.
What's funny: one key idea (move without stop and getting to the exit) happens to be used by a mini-game in my entry to the competition as well (somewhere in Chapter 2). I was really amused by that, given that this concept hasn't been used much recently in games, I thought. :D
EDIT: Given the other comments on the sound being great... Umm... I don't think it's different tastes. Then the judgement couldn't be so different! Maybe there's something wrong with the Mac version that cripples the sound? (I was running it on a Mac.)