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Vibrastones

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness371
Innovation504.03
Theme6233.17
Audio6812.47
Fun7242.86
Mood8122.70
Overall8162.95
Humor8661.82
Graphics11232.09

Comments

temmytemjin 2014-08-25 13:00

Interesting game! I assume the 'connected world' theme in interpreted by the split of objects on the left and then the movement on the right.

geeitsomelaldy 2014-08-25 18:10

Short but sweet. Only real complaint came from controlling the left side of the screen with my right hand (on the mouse) and the right side with my left hand.

For a game based around audio it would have been nice to have some kind of audio level slider somewhere, it was very quiet on my machine and I needed to turn the volume way up to be able to hear it. On the flip side however, none of the puzzles put forward required you to listen, just trial and error with moving shapes next to each other. Indeed the first few puzzles just required you to move all the stones in to a pile, then jump on the platform and move them away.

It would be nice to see this idea expanded upon. I'm sure it could lead to some devious puzzles. You could make great use of the Stroop effect to bamboozle people too. Get them linking, in their mind, that Blue Gem moves Blue Platform, then have it switch out. That kind of thing.

dusho 2014-08-25 21:17

cool one.. I like puzzles where trial-error approach works :)

graebor 2014-08-25 22:23

Great concept, even with the simple graphics it had me hooked pretty quickly. Definitely potential for further development here :)

inateno 2014-08-25 22:27

Really cool, I need more levels :D

awesomeusername 2014-08-25 22:29

Interesting game.

Is there any pattern to putting two stones together to move platforms? I couldn't figure any out.

trickfishpie 2014-08-25 22:32

Took me a while to get the knack of how to use the stones to control the level. Decent idea

chongdashu 2014-08-27 21:59

Interesting game and mechanics! Definitely something new!

zeppelincaptain 2014-08-27 22:00

Awkward controls, and for a game about audio, the audio wasn't really that nice. Seemed like an interesting idea though

43iscoding 2014-08-27 22:01

Very interesting concept. However, collisions are a bit messy (you can wall jump) and gems look pretty silly. Anyway, I enjoyed the game! Good job!

grillaface 2014-08-27 22:04

Fun!

nooner-bear 2014-08-28 01:51

Innovation is for sure a 5. I could see this having a lot of complicated puzzles weaved into it with more development. I found myself combining certain stones just for experimentation. Neat!

teesquared 2014-08-28 07:28

Great take on the theme. Picking from overlapped stones was a bit difficult though. The audio feature is one of those that sounds good in theory but not so much in practice :)

mrexcessive 2014-08-28 13:50

Hi there. Interesting idea. Got to 5 gems, bookmarked for later. Only slight technical issue is that sometimes keyboard input for the redsquare stops working. Reload level works though, so perhaps not too hard to fix ? Good job!

dickpoelen 2014-08-29 18:27

Interesting idea! Could use a bit more polish though

nanofi 2014-08-29 18:28

Really like the idea :D I like the hand-drawn parts of the graphics, if the coloured shapes fitted the style it would be really awesome. The controls of the red square stopped working a couple of times, seemingly randomly.

synchingfeeling 2014-08-29 20:27

A bit awkward but pretty fun. I Like the ambition of using LSDJ

tautnerve 2014-08-30 22:01

Feels a little rough but overall very interesting
concept, would love to see this with more polish

borgi 2014-08-30 22:07

Cool idea! Could be a great game!

bytegrove 2014-09-01 18:13

Clever concept, I really like what you did with the theme! The graphics and physics might need more work though.

ohfiddlediddle 2014-09-02 16:01

By far the best puzzle game I have played in LD30 so far.
If this had a graphical overhaul and some extra mechanics I could see this going a long way, well done! :D