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Pixel Dust (LD26)

By swizzcheez

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness279
Innovation4673.23
Theme7323.36
Audio8222.24
Graphics8302.68
Overall8972.85
Humor9611.67
Fun9912.49
Mood10902.27

Comments

nseward 2013-04-29 06:16

I love the discover image type puzzles. Great job. (I got the link to mine fixed if you want to check it out again.)

raincole 2013-04-29 06:51

Wow, it's a 1A2B in 2D grid! Like this idea.

sparksgently 2013-04-29 06:52

Slick interface. I didn't get the impression that I could logic out what color went where (a la Mastermind), and that meant that I was just clicking until I got a happy noise. That's just my personal preference, I guess, that I would rather be rewarded with a puzzle than a picture.
Nice work all around!

meat_popsicle 2013-04-29 07:08

Really hard to understand what the goal is.
Otherwise it was interesting and nice :)

orangepascal 2013-04-29 07:39

I'm very bad at these type of games.. and got annoyed pretty quickly.. it's a good game tho, just not my kind :)

patrickward 2013-04-29 10:40

Nice job. It took me a couple of tries before I figured out what to do. It would be nice to have a small graphical hint, so you're not stabbing in the dark. Overall, a very playable game. Felt complete. Good work!

heychinaski 2013-04-29 17:11

Nice mechanic. The time limit was perhaps a little strict, or maybe I'm a bit slow? :) Maybe an undo button would help

bernhard 2013-04-30 00:11

Another vote for the undo button! Other than that I found this to be quite a unique puzzle game.

berjah 2013-04-30 00:12

runs well and looks nice. a longer time limit for the first round would be good, or maybe I'm too slow ;-)

swizzcheez 2013-04-30 00:13

Is adding an undo button something I'm /allowed/ to do after launch? I'm willing to tweak some of these things in, but I don't know if it's allowed.

swizzcheez 2013-04-30 00:18

Also, I wouldn't mind dialing in the right scoring settings, but I assumed that after the compo launch that wouldn't be allowed.

sayaer 2013-04-30 01:45

This was difficult for me, but i'm bad with puzzles :) I did enjoy the concept and challenge though, well presented.

misaelk 2013-05-01 06:52

I'm not sure I dig (functionally) the interface. The "good piece" sound would sometimes be silent, and the little number above each grid block was a bit confusing (that is, I couldn't use it to assist me). I found the time given to be really short, I could only complete a two color puzzle even after several tries.

brainslugs83 2013-05-01 08:05

What, no Potato?? Also, looks like the scoring for the basic mode isn't working -- both score boards look like they just display the scores for the unlimited mode.

sboerwinkle 2013-05-03 21:52

Neat idea. A little more score would be nice, but I'm sure I'll get better. Good job!

xanjos 2013-05-12 00:56

Pretty hard but it's a rather interesting puzzler.

koltiman 2013-05-14 11:54

Really neat little game, good work!

mach60kas 2013-05-14 17:15

Very interesting, maybe a little bit more time would be nice! :) The design of the page was well thought out and complimented the game, too. Well done!

oye-beto 2013-05-17 04:50

I don't know if I'm playing it right, I'm doing it by trial and error and I can't win :P

I liked that you connected it with google accounts and the web design looks good.

rawbits 2013-05-17 21:06

Very good! I always wanted to be an imageprocessing algorithm myself. :) Well, my degree is partly from it but I like them more now. :D

swizzcheez 2013-05-18 02:19

I have a scoring fix ready to roll out once the compo is complete. I thought about deploying under the "typo" rule, but wasn't quite sure so I'm leaving it until the compo ends.

Once that occurs, you will have a better scoring indicator and fixes to make the game beatable, perhaps too much so. We'll see. Anyone want to continue play-testing after?

voxel 2013-05-18 09:39

Ooh clever. Agree that it could do with better instructions for the drive-by ludumdare rater, but once you know what's going on it's a solid game and surprisingly fun.