unept 2013-12-17 05:05
Hey, great puzzle mechanic! It'd be interesting to flesh it out a bit more. Well done!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD28 → Before Night Falls
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 74 | ||
| Innovation | 144 | 3.24 | ||
| Fun | 184 | 3.11 | ||
| Overall | 305 | 3.03 | ||
| Theme | 329 | 2.60 | ||
| Humor | 349 | 2.05 | ||
| Mood | 371 | 2.61 | ||
| Audio | 407 | 2.22 | ||
| Graphics | 510 | 2.03 |
Hey, great puzzle mechanic! It'd be interesting to flesh it out a bit more. Well done!
Slightly broken on a retina mac - only takes up a quarter of the window. Difficult to get past the title screen because the button positions don't match the hitboxes.
Besides that - cool idea. The puzzle advancement is a bit slow at first, but there are some interesting things going on once you get past the few few levels.
Nice job! That puzzle mechanic was realllllly clever. Though the progression of levels was a tad slow. Still I would love to see that mechanic be developed more.
Cool idea! It took me a minute to wrap my head around the concept of echoes, but pretty easy once it clicked.
As the others said, great mechanics ! Pretty cool game, good job !
Nice puzzle game, could have a better presentation though.
At first I thought it would be easy the whole time, but I found myself in trouble in the later levels, nice!
Good game!
Liked the echoes mechanic.
The first few puzzles after introducing the echoes were basically all solvable using the same basic technique.
The last lever however required a bit more thinking :)
Thanks for the feedback!
Yeah, I discussed at a little more in my postmortem, but I found that my playtesters were not understanding of the game mechanics after the first part of the tutorial. So after discussing with them I had a list of changes I needed to make. Most were interface changes, but I also thought more tutorial levels would help them learn. Seems like its not the same. Sorry for the ratio of tutorials to real levels.
niceeee
very interesting game. I'm pretty partial to puzzle games so this was a great play for me. I was a little confused at first, but nothing a little trial-and-error can't solve.
great puzzle :D since I love puzzle I enjoy to play it.
If you have a retina display mac, try doing what this answer on stack overflow says: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17257977
Besides that, I'm sorry, I cannot help too much. The only issue preventing you from playing it is on the main menu. If you can figure out the mouse offset to hit the play button, you will be able to play the rest of the game easily with just your arrow keys.
Love the puzzle element! It has potential!
Not bad It was fun and a great game.
Really like the idea, at first the solutions were pretty obvoius but then it got a bit harder. Could be really good if you make some more levels.
It was fun playing your game. Only the later levels posed some challenge, but still good work on the level design for a first try.
For a Jam entry it, could have used some better graphics/audio.
Fun little game. I've seen this idea a few times before but not exactly the same. My only complaint is a lot of the levels have straight-forward solutions - if there were more ways to interfere with your clones (e.g. changing their path by blocking it) then it'd make the levels more interesting.
A fair amount of you are commenting about the levels. Just for an explanation: I'm sorry they are slow, but I figured it was more of a crime to make it too hard and not introduce people to the game than it was to make it slower to start. Unfortunately, in making easy levels I cut out the amount of harder levels I was able to make in the timeframe. I do plan on adding in more levels and fleshing it out.
the problem about the level is not that they are easy it's just that some of them are the same with a different shape. When you just solved a problem you want to see a brand new one, that's why the game seems slow.
Apart of that the game is great. I like the mechanic and also the word "echo". I wish you had time to implement some motion-tweening to see all my echoes moving around :)
I liked the idea of this game. Had a lot of fun playing it, good job!
Very cool, reminds of the game 'cursor x10'
This game was pretty cool!! Sadly, it would not record with fraps so I couldnt include it in my Ludum dare 28 compilation video series... :/
Nice puzzle game! It took me a couple of minutes to grasp the echoes concept, after that it was fun. The first levels are a bit too easy.