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Mystic Sapling
By atrodo
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| Category | Rank | Score | Count |
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| Coolness | 3 | 63 | | |
| Humor | 685 | 1.73 | | |
| Mood | 853 | 1.89 | | |
| Graphics | 899 | 1.77 | | |
| Innovation | 907 | 2.13 | | |
| Theme | 945 | 2.28 | | |
| Fun | 957 | 1.77 | | |
| Overall | 967 | 2.03 | | |
Comments
Hey dude, I had trouble playing your game. I couldn't figure out exactly what to do! Regardless, it seems like it could be an interesting game. Perhaps some more work on your development skills and then your vision will come through! Well done.
I had trouble with the game too. Had weird graphics issues ... I think the souls where JPG instead of PNG that supports transparency. that's why they appeared as blocks.
atrodo
2015-12-14 20:29
The coloring of the blocks is, unfortunately, a known issue. The file is in fact a png, and transparency is fine until I added the coloring, at which point you get the effect you see. I didn't have time to figure out what I am doing wrong with the color blending.
good first run, some small stuff with the graphics.
kodras
2015-12-14 22:23
Couldn't play unfortunately, so won't rate :( Web player wasn't responding to any of the controls.
atrodo
2015-12-15 06:50
I found the reason why the performance of the game was poor, the amount of souls being processed on each frame was too high. So I have made a small bug fix to address this. It shouldn't affect gameplay at all.
Kinda hard to play, seeing as some souls get stuck on the ceiling with no way to pull or push them.
Keep workin on your skills man, never give up.
It really needed some additional polishing. The movement feels very... sluggish, I guess?
The controls work fine and the game plays at a fine speed for me but unfortunately I just don't understand what's happening? I like the story and I like the presentation but without a UI or sound I can't really tell if what I'm doing is helping or hurting the tree?
micky
2015-12-16 09:22
different but interesting concept :), was a little hard to play
In the beginning the souls move around a bit but then they all stop. I also read the description but by their colour I don't know which ones are chaos/order, I assume the grey ones are neutral. Maybe if you make a quick gameplay video we can get a better idea of the how and what. Theme usage looks good.
depp
2015-12-26 20:53
Interesting concept, but I can't figure out quite what to do. "Souls of order" and "souls of chaos", but all I see are red and blue, and I'm not sure which is which, and I can't tell any difference between pushing them up and pushing them down.
Im not quite sure what I am doing, but I found it interesting. I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/XwDbETpIdpU
I had some weird issues with controls in the web browser, and I also didn't really get what to do. The soul graphics also looked kinda weird. Good job though!