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Morphing Maria

By thomastc

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Fun194.08
Coolness359
Theme394.17
Overall473.94
Humor793.48
Mood1233.57
Graphics1723.70
Audio3852.88
Innovation4593.12

Comments

sebbernery 2016-04-18 08:50

Very good !

danilo-bezerra 2016-04-18 22:36

Very nice combination of mechanics! I played it on Safari and it didn't have sound.

rockybdubs 2016-04-19 03:24

My favorite that I've played! My only beef was that sometimes I wish I could move the characters a little faster. Level 7 got tedious. Great ending :)

landosystems 2016-04-19 06:05

Great game, very lovely graphics with clever puzzles and fun gameplay. Excellent work!

aaranos 2016-04-19 16:55

Good set of puzzles, wasn't just clearing them instantly.

zkenshin 2016-04-19 17:18

A very enjoyable entry, nice job!

ivakha 2016-04-19 17:33

I got! Humor 5/5

P.S. Awesome game

remiv 2016-04-19 17:35

Interesting mechanics, I like those puzzle.

ezombort 2016-04-19 17:52

Probably the game I have enjoyed the most so far! Very clever level design. Well done! :)

miznoruri 2016-04-19 18:44

Great game! I enjoy it very much! 5/5

fullmontis 2016-04-19 19:03

Cool gameplay mechanics! I think they work really well, and the game design is well done too.

2016-04-19 20:51

I enjoy it, good level design and fun analogy.

larzan 2016-04-19 21:26

Very nice idea, well implemented.

redpanda_ua 2016-04-19 21:49

Awesome game!

lereveur 2016-04-19 22:13

I like puzzles, and this one is good. Well played !

teamscripta 2016-04-20 01:24

5/5 Great game! Love the shifting in order to complete the puzzles. This is a seriously well-formed game in so short a timeframe. Great work, so much fun.

demane_f 2016-04-20 11:40

amazing ! reminded of zelda soo much ! loved it, Hope you'll make new levels

roborob 2016-04-20 15:07

Really nice puzzle game. I enjoyed the game quite a lot.

zpeedtube 2016-04-20 21:12

I was surprised over how good it was!
Really like the puzzle mechanics and also the humor! :D
(Played in chrome, worked good for me)

fin_nolimit 2016-04-21 00:44

Okay, for sure one of the top ten games I've played so far. My daughter and I had a blast playing your game. She loved the fact that it was the princess saving the plumber.. hahaa.. very funny twist. We got to level four and are planning on returning to this game to beat it. Nice job!!!

malvern 2016-04-21 00:55

Great puzzle design! Difficult enough that you feel clever after you've solved them.

I do wish that the controls were a little less sensitive, I overshot switches far too often and having to restart so often was a little frustrating.

vini60 2016-04-21 01:12

Genious. Very fun and frustrating to play.

cosmologicon 2016-04-21 03:03

Awesome! Really good looking. Good use of creative mechanics. The puzzles are a bit easy for anyone who's done Sokoban, but there's nothing wrong with that per se. :)

wboqm 2016-04-21 04:07

Enjoyed the game and found it fun, but felt like the snake could have been used more.

danbolt 2016-04-21 06:02

I really admire how well-structured your puzzles were! I could have benefitted from that a lot.

I really enjoyed floor 10's gameplay compared to some of the earlier ones, probably because of the resource management with the boxes. That was cool.

Thanks for uploading!

cowa 2016-04-21 06:38

Nice puzzles and concept! But I really didn't like the sounds though.
Good job :)

mightytoaststudio 2016-04-21 08:03

Funny ending and very entertaining. I love this kind of game and yours is very good. I want more!

pestelcrew 2016-04-21 08:25

Reminds me my childhood XD Loved it! One more game I would LOVE to play in my bad time! Please release it on Google Play! Waiting!

thomastc 2016-04-21 09:26

Wow, so much feedback! Thank you all! Let me answer to some people specifically...

@rockybdubs, @Malvern: You are basically saying opposite things about movement speed :) Perhaps level 7 got tedious because, frankly, it is. I meant for something more interesting to be placed halfway, but couldn't fit it in (neither into the time, nor into the map).

@fin_nolimit: Just your comment by itself made this LD worthwhile. Thank you, and enjoy the rest of the levels!

@Cosmologicon: I didn't want to go to deep into hardcore Sokoban type puzzles, where you have to get 100 steps in the right order or you have to start over. I'd rather have something more forgiving, where you can never get stuck. I tried to find a reasonable balance there.

@wboqm: Yes, the snake might be under-used. The problem is that once you're a snake, the only limiting factor is crates. I think I'd have to add another snake-blocking tile to get more good puzzles out of it.

@danbolt: Level 8 is my personal favourite, which has a similar structure.

@Cowa: Sorry about the sounds. Eleventh hour, almost literally. Totally true that they could have been better.

@Pestel Crew: If this is highly enough rated in LD, I'll definitely consider a mobile port :)

cakeknuckles 2016-04-21 12:37

this is such a nice little puzzle game, really good interpretation of the theme!

gfm 2016-04-21 14:55

Nice game!

Morphing was an interesting new mechanic! :)
I also really liked the flavor texts... "Your pawns are to big to hold the key" was my favorite one. XD

zenmumbler 2016-04-21 15:02

Having heard the sounds now in Firefox I don't mind they were not present in Safari ;) Very well put together game marrying sokoban and shapeshifting in a great package!

leftright92 2016-04-21 15:32

Really nice entry, just slightly disappointed some of the puzzles were self-solving or too easy. Would like to see more

holyblackcat 2016-04-21 16:39

Wow, you've made a great game!
I really like mario reference, as well as interesting puzzle gameplay and nice graphics.

Sounds were ok, but some of them (snake and princess movement) were a bit unnatural. I suggest you to get a sound editor like Audacity and try to use the equalizer to cut high frequencies from some of the sounds. This should make them a lot better and pleasant to hear, especially this would help for noisy snake movement.

Btw, i'd make starting cell non-solid and act like normal floor. It just feels weird that I can't walk over it.

I've mentioned some things to be (in my opinion) improved, but they are tiny compared to all the nice things that the game has.
This is one of the few games out there that are interesting from the start to the very end.

Great job!

sir-magic 2016-04-21 17:16

Haha loved Plumber Peat and Princess Maria xD

joemanaco 2016-04-21 17:23

Sokoban with a cool twist. Great use of the theme.

joekinley 2016-04-21 17:55

Whenever I finish these kind of games, I feel really smart to have figured out all the levels. Obligatory end pun was obligatory, but the game was awesome

diningphilosopher 2016-04-21 18:10

Haha, Plumber Pete, I had to think for a moment what the reference was ;-) Loved the graphics, especially the bear with the little moving crown. Sound effect of the bear had some crackling, otherwise sounds were fine.

arskiainen 2016-04-21 18:42

So complete! Double nostalgia with a twist. The sounds are hideous! :X

shane1090 2016-04-21 18:43

Very nice idea, puzzles were enjoyable to solve!

apantaloni 2016-04-21 19:12

Very enjoyable and funny puzzle game. Maybe a little too easy. I'd love to see this expanded upon.

toastedgames 2016-04-21 19:21

Great game guys! I played the entire thing, and enjoyed all of it! Keep it up.

endel 2016-04-21 19:58

Theme was very well applied on this game, gameplay is not that innovative, yet quite enjoyable. Congrats!

themadknights 2016-04-21 20:00

Nice one! Good use of the theme. The only thing I miss was some kind of background music.

samh 2016-04-21 20:46

Excellent level design, congrats! The puzzles are challenging enough, not too long, and the mechanics are easily learned. A nice little gem.

josefnpat 2016-04-21 23:44

This was clean and the puzzles weren't too hard! It would have been nice to bind reset to "R" but regardless wonderful!

odyssey 2016-04-21 23:57

Loved the levels

bogdan-tana 2016-04-22 20:04

The level design is juicy! Fun to play, funny setting, great entry :D Congrats!

ladyemaskye 2016-04-22 22:02

Wonderful little game -- best one I've played so far! Clear and straightforward, yet very intuitive. Some of the puzzles were definitely a bit complex -- I had to play through restart several multiple times.

oysterklan 2016-04-24 07:32

Great game, solid art and well made puzzles!

egos 2016-04-24 09:58

well polished puzzles game
Good jobs

toadfrogs 2016-04-24 12:35

Excellent use of the theme, I really enjoyed this game :D

2016-04-24 12:42

Hi, nice game ! it remembers me the tower of druaga :D
We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35.
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description

puppetmaster 2016-04-24 13:28

Nice puzzle game with cute pixel graphics.
Missing background music.
Keep up the good work!

marmpa 2016-04-24 13:36

Really liked the reverse mario type game.Loved you could transform
to animalist and the to a human.

dssiege11 2016-04-24 13:39

Loved it, very clever puzzles!

thomastc 2016-04-24 14:19

@Freank: Please feel free to include my game in your video if you like!

asturk 2016-04-24 15:13

You did very great with this puzzle game! Altough o think the puzzles is still kinda easy until last levels, for a gamejam, the level designs was great, the audio and graphics is amazing for this type of play! Great job!!

domrein 2016-04-24 15:23

Amaaaaazing! Best game I've played so far. Very very well done. The only thing it's lacking is music, but I really enjoyed it.

felladrin 2016-04-24 17:00

Nice game! Had a good time solving puzzles!

mrshoestore 2016-04-24 17:51

very nice combo entry. played on safari so wasn't able to rate the audio.

plko 2016-04-24 18:04

Toad!!It's you!?

tomlum 2016-04-24 20:47

Fantastic. Challenging and interesting.

johnwatmuff 2016-04-24 21:10

well done, one of the more "complete" games out there.

ijona 2016-04-24 23:26

I liked role reversal :)

urfbound 2016-04-25 02:27

Great game! Probably the best compo game I've played so far, really polished and creative. I love the art and sound, how they change for each form, and the level design is great. I especially liked level 8. Some suggestions I would make for future iterations would be a score system based on step count, and dynamic elements like enemies that move over time. Being able to start a level over without going back to the beginning is definitely great. Maybe an undo button would help too. I also found that the text looked kinda blurry, not sure if it's scaled or if you're working right from image resources but it was something i noticed.

Did notice one bug, but it can break a level where it occurs: if you are the human princess with a key and change forms at the same cell twice, it seems one of the keys will disappear (this might just be a graphical thing but I couldnt get back to the same cell to see).

Had a blast playing your game and it has a lot of polish! Hope you had fun making it, thanks for your submission!

thomastc 2016-04-25 09:47

@urfbound: Thanks for the detailed feedback!

Undo would have been great, but wasn't possible in the time available. I'd have to either clone the entire game state, or have some "reverse" operation, but because of hacky code (zero separation between game logic and display) neither was easy.

I'm not so sure about dynamic elements. I prefer pure logic puzzles over logic plus skill. I hated many of the moving mine puzzles in Talos, for instance. YMMV.

Not sure what the blurry text is all about. It should look crisp and pixelated, and does on every platform I tested. Not sure if this is a HaxeFlixel bug or I'm just holding it wrong.

The keys don't actually disappear, it's just that they're rendered on top of each other. I was aware of this but didn't bother to fix it, because as soon as you pick them up again it becomes clear.

2016-04-26 08:45

i can include it ! You should sign up and click on Upload. Only the devs can :(

rock-eaters 2016-05-02 22:15

Classic puzzle concept, but nice exploitation of the theme. Like it.

wumpus 2016-05-06 11:54

Played it through to the end and enjoyed it. Almost gave up early thinking "it's just another sokoban game" but ended up sticking it out and enjoyed some of the later levels. They were nicely designed and challenging without being annoying. Nice job.

waveformmodulations 2016-05-06 14:04

Cute little puzzle game!

ermrk 2016-05-06 18:05

I like graphic of the beginning sequence. I am not big fun of Sokoban, but this was fun.

quadtree 2016-05-09 05:17

Nice! Puzzles had just the right level of difficulty.

taro 2016-05-09 23:38

Loved the puzzles: they were really well-made, giving just enough clues to complete, but not enough to make you feel smart. The sound effects gets repetitive very fast, so I would have liked more variety there. Thought it was pretty cool.