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Shift the Shapes

By larzan

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness290
Innovation2083.55
Overall2903.52
Fun4173.28
Theme5923.29
Graphics6433.15
Audio6812.15
Mood7432.83
Humor7451.95

Comments

davidcmcdonald 2016-04-19 01:52

Do i smell a mobile game in the works? seriously this concept would seem perfect. i love it. nice work.

nickavv 2016-04-19 01:58

The puzzles here get hard very fast. I couldn't figure out level 4, not for lack of trying :)

obsessivenotion 2016-04-19 14:19

Nice! Was confusing to get used to but nice when I finally got the hang

willsr71 2016-04-19 16:12

Nice game overall, the only thing i can really think of is have some sort of score that decreases based on how many moves you made and how long you took.

matiasbontempo 2016-04-19 16:22

It was hard at first, but once you get the hang of it it gets really funny and challenging!

antglynn 2016-04-19 16:38

Great puzzle game with good mechanics. Nicely done!

lucasncv 2016-04-19 16:53

Very nicely done! Controls are very smooth.

theonlygooddrcz 2016-04-19 17:42

very nice puzzle, and a pretty game! like you said, some ambient tune would be nice. something broke past level 11. I would also put level 4 further as it feels harder than numbers 5-9 -- but perhaps that's my mind's limitation. I definitely had a great time playing this game!

mikekreein 2016-04-19 18:12

Interesting little puzzle game. I was a little confused when I could move the selection vs shifting blocks. Fun nonetheless.

shatterpointstudios 2016-04-19 18:57

Very cool, I always love these deceptively simplistic puzzle games. The concept took some getting used to, but the puzzles are really good. Nice work.

dallengd 2016-04-19 21:37

Had some troubles at first understanding the game mechanics, but once I got it, it became really fun and I found myself manipulating the puzzles quite instinctively. Great work!

llucile 2016-04-19 22:05

It is nice but quite hard to play since you can get the cursor stuck if you make the wrong move. But it's a really good puzzle !

just-tom 2016-04-19 23:33

Neat and mechanically sound;
Took a few tries to 'get' but great once you're in.

Dig the clean style, would make a great app!

garys 2016-04-20 01:02

Oooh, this is good. I can see this being fleshed out into a full game. I agree there could be some scoring based on number of moves. Perhaps levels of completion for each puzzle... gold/silver/bronze for completion in fewer moves, etc.

teamscripta 2016-04-20 01:15

Yep, love this. Great little puzzle game, I definitely see this as a mobile app. I'd love a quick undo vs only restart, esp for Level 4, which I found difficult - definitely a glimpse of future difficulty there. Seriously great little puzzle game!

rafaskb 2016-04-20 02:10

Nice puzzle, a bit hard for me though haha

blennosoftgames 2016-04-20 02:35

This is a really cool puzzle game concept! Once I got a hang of the core concepts, and started solving the puzzles I was feeling super smart! ... then I got to level 10 :P

Haha, but seriously that one had me stumped for a good 10 minutes. I did end up beating all 11 though.

bitdare 2016-04-20 03:53

This game would be great on a mobile device. great mechanic.

linus123xbb 2016-04-20 07:51

Good game with cool mechanics, although the first few levels were a bit too hard.

ogniok 2016-04-20 12:23

Nice, solid entry. One of two games I played so far that I really enjoyed. :)

guoboism 2016-04-20 15:10

You can not shift or rotate if select not on any tile, this doesn't not feel good.

apantaloni 2016-04-20 17:18

Nice puzzle game! I like the minimalist look. The beginning is very easy, then it gets interesting :)

gglyptodon 2016-04-20 21:04

Yoshi's Cookie meets Rubiks's Cube... Had fun with the puzzles :)

johnnysix 2016-04-20 21:12

Love the idea, simple to learn , hard to master, especially on the trickier later levels. Definitely keep working on this. Reminds me of 2d rubiks cube solves. Very cool!

samlo 2016-04-20 23:50

This is really neat, but the controls are kind of cryptic. If you make them a bit simpler/more explainable you'll have yourself a really solid puzzler

sftrabbit 2016-04-21 09:02

Once I got a hang of the controls, I thought this was pretty nice. Simple mechanic, works well! Was quite easy until I got to level 10. It's also a simple enough idea that you could easily add mechanics on top of it to expand the idea some more. Nice work.

naca 2016-04-21 14:18

Great puzzle game! Never seen this mechanic, I enjoyed it a lot. I got through 11 levels but I don't know if the 11th is the last one or if there's a bug, it keeps saying click for next level. As a curiosity fact, I'd like to know if there's always a way to solve the puzzle or if I can "mess it up" so much that I'm forced to restart. Sometimes I couldn't figure out how to fix what I did wrong.

larzan 2016-04-21 15:11

@Naca yes, you can reach a point where the puzzle becomes unsolvable, as you can not shift lines with an empty field. (then you have to press 'r' to reset or ESC two times)

rantt 2016-04-21 18:24

Cool mechanic, took a few puzzles to get use to it. Fun puzzle game, nicely done.

lostalloy 2016-04-21 19:55

Interesting game, but the controls were a bit confusing.

gyfis 2016-04-22 10:10

Nice game, though a bit confusing from the start. I've encountered some bugs - even though I connected all the shapes, it didn't go through.

binarybot 2016-04-23 05:25

I like the mechanic behind this! Similar to mine, kind of. The graphics worked really well, and felt polished although simple. Controls felt a little wonky, using both WASD and arrow keys kind of messed me up. Still, a great game!

gnerkus 2016-04-23 05:43

It was a bit difficult until I realized I had not rotated the board.

This is a simple and fun concept.

lonestranger 2016-04-23 05:48

Very interesting mechanic, like a 2D Rubic's cube. With a proper escalation of difficulty and a chunk of puzzles, I think you've got yourself something to market.

hectigo 2016-04-23 05:49

It's a fun, simple and unique concept for a puzzle game. Got a little bit of time to get the hang of it at first, then the levels felt easy for a while but the challenge picked up nicely again when the second color was added. It could be more fun to have a variation with easy levels but some time pressure or score based on number of moves. Got stuck after level 11, is that just the last one?

blackbird806 2016-04-23 16:15

An excelent game I realy enjoyed it :) nice work

themeorch 2016-04-23 21:33

This is a cool puzzle game. It took a while to figure out exactly how it works, but once I did, I really got going.
If you make more levels, I'd love to see even more variety in terms of the techniques you need to use in order to solve them.

markusfisch 2016-04-23 22:07

Oh, wow, and another Rubik's-Cube-like entry! :) Made a very similar game, but not quite the same. Very interesting to play yours! Couldn't stop playing all the levels (11 is the last, right?). Very good concept!

miwuc 2016-04-24 09:58

Nice puzzle game, a bit on the easy side even though it can get quite hairy if you don't start with a plan on the later levels.

marmpa 2016-04-26 10:58

Nice game but i found it really difficult really nice concept though

torcado194 2016-04-29 18:17

really well designed! i really enjoyed the puzzles, and the colors are pretty nice

thomastc 2016-05-01 09:25

Hooray, a creative take on the theme! Smooth, looks minimalistic yet polished. Gameplay is a bit confusing sometimes; it would help to draw some borders that you cannot go beyond, and indicate that the centre tile is "special", being the pivot. Maybe also add some horizontal lines around the row you're shifting, to make it clear to novice players that the horizontal direction is different from the vertical. But all that is icing on the cake; I think the core is quite solid here, 5/5 for Innovation and Fun :)

geckoo1337 2016-05-01 21:17

Interesting concept which seems hard at start. Minimalist aesthetic. More sounds maybe. Well done ++

captainpilot 2016-05-02 21:10

This is a really neat little puzzler. Whilst I did get quite far I'm still not entirely sure on the ruleset (for example why can I move a row but then cannot move it back)

wboqm 2016-05-03 13:57

Great game - enjoyable! The ending could have a nice screen, rather than a repeat of the "level 11" screen.

finlal 2016-05-05 20:47

nice game :)

dollarone 2016-05-06 01:59

Nice little puzzler. Very clean and pro look, and a cool sliding concept once I figured out the rotation feature :)

Impressive to make 11 levels - I know that stuff takes time.

The only issue with the game, I think, is that once you "get it" finding a solution is not that hard. Maybe you could introduce other elements such as non-movable blocks or # of shifts or something if you want to extend it.

But all in all, very nice!

themadknights 2016-05-08 13:15

Cool puzzle mechanics. I only miss some kind of background music. It was a bit hard at first :D

broknecho 2016-05-09 03:58

Super neat puzzle game. I Cool concept and executed well.