spotlightor 2016-04-18 09:34
Great work!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD35 → Shape maze
By firephoenix
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation | 793 | 2.53 | ||
| Graphics | 858 | 2.13 | ||
| Theme | 895 | 2.27 | ||
| Fun | 907 | 2.12 | ||
| Overall | 923 | 2.35 | ||
| Coolness | 1979 | 24 |
Great work!
it may be too soon after The Witness for me to think about mazes again
Maybe some mouse controls would make it funnier. However, it is fun!
I would say to you implementing a path finding to know if the center is reachable (and then you could generate always a reachable level)
Having only 4 cardinal directions on via keyboard controls, the diagonal mazes can get very frustrating and consist of lots of tedious (down, side, down, side, down, side) movement. Mouse controls, or...an on screen joystick?...or mostly square mazes would definitely help. Still the generated mazes themselves look really cool, and the color scheme is simple but it works, and nice use of the theme!
I think tweaking the level generation so it's less likely to get unwinnable levels (I had to regenerate a lot of levels 2 or 3 times).
Mouse movement may have helped as the levels had some weird angles. I played it for a few minutes and got to about 12 sides. It looks like more interesting patterns emerge later on though. Bigger increments (instead of 6, 7, 8, 9.. 6, 8, 11, 15, etc.) may have made it a bit more interesting earlier.
Cool submission.
I tried to make mouse controls, but for some weird reason the code just wouldn't work, so I ended up having to use the keyboard. If I had more time, I would probably make use of the mouse.
I also tried everything to make a solver so that there is no regenerate button, but that didn't work out either.
Thanks for all the feedback!
Really nice idea, very frustrating [in a good way] and lovely clean graphics
movement not accurate enough for this maze game - nice effort
Simple and fun. Could do with checking the level is winnable first though! Maybe write an AI to play it and run it through the maze before its presented to the user. I love a bit of procedural generation though!
The Mazes are nicely generated and it wasnt easy to find the right way, especially because the green/black color made it hard for my eyes to not get confused. I had fun finding the correct route through the maze, but then actually getting there was a pain when moving diagonally, i had to start over a dozen times. But for anyone that enjoys solving mazes, this is a fun game, thank you for making this :)