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A downloadable game
Solve cozy puzzles in this game about a cute little blob and get to the finish line! Except you're faced with your worst enemy: you. Get back to the start without touching your past self. You don't want to mess with time travel, after all...
Controls:
MouseLeft - move to the selected square (only neighbouring)
Modifiers for the GameJam:
- Limited Controls
- Your Best Shape
- Strength In Numbers
Credits
- Art and graphics: Boglárka Bajkai (mingan-wolf.itch.io/), Vincze Lilla (itch.io/profile/lilla4869), Harsányi Levente (harsanyil.itch.io/)
- Sound Design and Music: Szilczer Ármin (itch.io/profile/homok43)
- Programming and Game logic: Galgóczy Gábor (itch.io/profile/n0f4x) Czeglédi Krisztián (senpai-thatcher.itch.io/)
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Creative gameplay and nice art style.
The puzzles are a bit too easy to solve once you realize that you can just keep stalling at the beginning, and that way your past self will never get in your way.
If you are looking to refine the game, I think the easiest way to make the puzzles more challenging, would be to count how many steps the player takes, and then make a check once they finish, and sort them into one of multiple categories like so:
-Exceeded the maximum allowed number of steps, level failed
-Adhered to a lenient max step limit, bronze trophy
-Adhered to a stricter max step limit, silver trophy, etc.
A very interesting puzzle game! And victory tastes like transformers candy!
Thank you for visiting our booth at Gamer Weekend! It was a first for us and we were happy so many people tried our game <3
Super neat concept, lovely art style and audio design! I couldn’t figure out a way to restart a level, but managed to do something sussy by pressing SPACE (spawning a clone of myself). The last level I managed to reach was this:
If you folks would be willing to iron out some buggies and work a bit more on the UI/UX, I’d love to try the game again, because it’s already very enjoyable. And it would probably work really nicely with touch input too!
Thank you for the constructive feedback! We took your advice into consideration, so the current version should have all of these! We also started an Android build with touch input :D
That’s great! I downloaded the new version, the restart/quit functions are a welcome addition. However I’m afraid I managed to somehow get stuck on that level after restarting it once:
The ball doesn’t move anywhere (dragging the level still works for camera panning), no matter how many times I tried restarting with the button. The quit button still worked.
I’ll give the Android version a go soon too :)
Also I noticed that there’s a barely readable message on the game over screen that says “space to restart” or something, but seemingly Space does not restart the game. I guess this could be just removed because the restart button works fine on the game over screen.
Smooth sailing on Android, nicely done folks!
Thanks to the Gamer Weekend, we know about the getting stuck issue - we just have to figure out what's causing it.
...the end screen is supposed to say "You have exploded the space-time continuum", but people instantly read it as "space to continue". I agree it's not very visible, I was thinking about making it more readable, but I have a suspicion that even then if someone just skims through it, they will read it as "space to continue" again 😅
:D oh snap, my reading skills!