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Fun with magnets!

By ithildin

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Innovation983.86
Overall1933.63
Audio1953.30
Graphics1983.69
Fun2783.43
Theme2823.96
Humor3302.70
Mood3593.14

Comments

ondrejbalas 2015-12-14 03:17

This was surprisingly fun. Graphics are very well done, and audio (both music and sound) fit in well. Nice job!

tuben999 2015-12-14 10:08

Good game fits the theme nicely! sometimes when i hit "pos" the ball went straight for the left corner instead of straight up.

sp3ctrum 2015-12-14 11:02

Elegant concept with a very personal art style. Love the magnets mechanics and level progression is really smooth.

5you 2015-12-14 12:57

The right dial is a bit tricky to yuse with the mouse but it is a solid concept and is well executed.
Maybe if the room was round, the balls wouln't have corners to get stuck in.

coywolf 2015-12-14 12:59

Very good style!

miznoruri 2015-12-14 13:01

Extremely fun!! Also art and audio are very nice. Definitely five star for me!

bunn1e5 2015-12-14 13:01

Really fun. The controls are a bit confusing at first (I really wanted to use d or g to move the other way) but one you get the hang of it its really cool

x92rwzb 2015-12-14 13:15

This was really fun to play and also it was pretty easy to play.

anquetil13621 2015-12-14 13:29

Two button controls for the magnets!! Amazing idea!!

eerongal 2015-12-14 17:24

Fun little puzzle game, but can be kinda annoying moving two magnets at once! Nice work!

aamatniekss 2015-12-14 17:25

Nice, really good game! Very polished and felt like a real complete game, with the menus and everything. It was fun to mess around with the magnets. :)

connors 2015-12-14 17:35

The game wasn't so much difficult for me as it was time-consuming, since if I fiddle enough I'll probably get the magnets deposited eventually.

mlepage 2015-12-15 02:42

Sweet I enjoyed this one.

lereveur 2015-12-15 03:58

Fun interpretation of the theme. I liked it. :)

batiali 2015-12-15 08:36

very nice implementation of the theme. I liked figuring out how the controls work. it was fun.

kmakai 2015-12-15 11:16

Great job with sound/music and visuals, it has a really distinct style that was fun to see. Nice use of the theme as well (and clever to make the movement change direction!). I would definitely play more levels of this, especially after hazards are introduced.

zener 2015-12-15 21:20

Very fun and polished game! Mechanic fits the theme perfectly and the visuals are great, I love the palette! I don't know why but I keep expecting the balls to rebound like in an arkanoid game :)

blackname 2015-12-15 21:46

Good game! But when it starts to be challenging the game ends XD
I would play this game with more levels.

ithildin 2015-12-15 22:05

Thank you all for your feedback! :D

@tuben999: Yeah, I'm afraid that's one of the glitches I noticed at the last minute, I'm currently thinking of fixing it. Maybe one option if I have the spirits to create more levels and elements is to revise that so that past a certain distance the charge just sticks to the front.

@Zener: Sometimes I too imagine the ball will bounce n_nU One of the ideas I had for other elements was a bumper (or even bouncy walls), but I'd probably need to be very careful about level design.

@blackname I'm actually thinking of a post-compo version with more levels (and some of the ideas that couldn't make it, such as switches, other magnetic fields and so on). Right now the only penalising prop is the wheel and it appears right at the end level, so it's a bit absurd.

peekotus 2015-12-15 23:36

You did a nice job overall

sergicollado 2015-12-15 23:37

Nice game!

jasoncoan 2015-12-15 23:37

Very fun and challenging.

mryoglu 2015-12-16 00:38

not bad :)

warboys 2015-12-16 09:53

The style is lovely and I like the idea of the gameplay. Personally I found it to be a little slow to ramp up, and the controls (not being able to go left and right when you want) were frustrating. It would have been really cool if pressing left/right would move the platform and pressing both buttons together would toggle the polarity.

tomenluca 2015-12-16 10:57

This game is really well polished. The gameplay is nice, the graphics and the audio fit the game really well. I really like the way you made the gameplay with the magnets so intuitive.

seconddimension 2015-12-16 21:27

Really fun game, I wanted to play more levels. Graphics were simple but really suited the game. A great entry.

pjimmy 2015-12-16 22:49

awesome! very innovative gameplay, the puzzles were great, well done :)

thebrickanator 2015-12-17 08:04

Was a nice little challenge, however the puzzles mostly consisted of trying to use the mechanics instead of solving how to complete it. This ultimately ended up making it a little tedious :P The games mechanics and design however were very good :D

oz2mura 2015-12-18 10:58

Nice clean pixel art. Theme met well with the 2-buttons. Fun challenging puzzles that I felt very satisfied with after solving, and definitely see potential crazy puzzle designs with these mechanics. Audio was pretty nice. Nice, dialogue that kept me smiling as it went along. Overall really nice polished game.

miwuc 2015-12-21 13:32

Nice concept with lots of potential. I would love to see it go more into a puzzle direction, maybe by limiting the number of polarity switches you can do (right now you can solve any level with trial and error).
The presentation is very polished, congrats!

martin-denizet 2015-12-22 20:03

Very clean.

galvesmash 2015-12-23 17:50

Impressive game, level design well done made me have a lot of fun and wanted more levels. Really like this entry, congrats!

zenmumbler 2015-12-23 17:55

One chainsaw and I'm game over… Extensive game with good, simple mechanic exploited properly. Very nice. Good consistency and tone of visuals and audio.

scorched 2015-12-25 17:02

Nice concept! That motor sound is driving me nuts, and I'd prefer F and J moving and F+J switching as controls, but you can still fix it ;-)

aurel300 2015-12-25 20:08

Neat, though I wished there was more to it. Every level ended up being 'attract the magnet, then reverse the polarity when directly underneath the target, rinse and repeat'.

ethankennerly 2015-12-26 04:47

When I attracted a ball while listening to the contemplative music, I felt mesmerized. If you continue to develop this, when I pressed the button to move the magnet and swiped to change polarity, and then the ball flew farther to the side than I expected, I felt awkward.

pusty 2015-12-26 06:28

Nice one! Had fun playing it

crucknuk 2015-12-26 21:04

Nice entry! The idea of interacting with magnets is interesting. I wish it is a bit more challenging since there is no loosing condition. Adding traps could be a solution (in the last level, I saw one, but when my magnet was destroyed by it, nothing happened). Appart from that, it is well made. Good job ! ;)

finn 2015-12-27 01:55

Nice game, the idea of attraction/repulsion as a control scheme was really cool. You matched the theme well, but I feel like the game would be better with an easier control scheme (allowing for harder puzzles).

The game seemed more about electric charges (or magnetic monopoles) than real magnets! :P

torcado194 2015-12-31 09:31

interesting little game! the art style caught my interest and im glad i checked it out! i only wish it were a bit longer

dregamr 2016-01-02 12:33

Wow! Very good game!!

jackrugile 2016-01-02 22:07

I loved the concept for this one. The controls took a second to get used to, but you packed a lot into the two buttons. Nice work!

teamflare 2016-01-04 18:15

Cool Game and original idea. Had some issues with changing the magnet status. Nice job