ziege 2016-04-18 19:43
It's fun, looks good, sounds good. But the difficulty curve could a bit kinder.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD35 → Shapegrammer
By apantaloni
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Theme | 81 | 4.03 | ||
| Overall | 166 | 3.68 | ||
| Innovation | 219 | 3.52 | ||
| Fun | 236 | 3.48 | ||
| Graphics | 329 | 3.72 | ||
| Audio | 348 | 3.24 | ||
| Humor | 399 | 2.70 | ||
| Mood | 427 | 3.25 |
It's fun, looks good, sounds good. But the difficulty curve could a bit kinder.
Great fun! The animation of the shapes rearranging is awesome. The fish is too hard to orient quickly, I can't remember which way is "up" =(
Puzzle !!! I like puzzle and this game is awesome, graphics, gampley, music... VERY GOOD JOB !
It's really addictive, but I'm so bad at it :-) the shifting part I can handle but then when it comes to the rotation.. makes it to hard (for me) :-) But it looks so good, great graphics. Great work!
Great game, maybe too hard but anyway I loved the idea and the final result. Thanks!
Great game! Played it until I got the top score so far (30!) and enjoyed it the whole time. Felt like I was really learning how to get better at it. The fish and dragon were the most difficult ones for me, but I ended up with a technique of thinking "Which way is the dragon/fish facing? Press the direction 90 degrees clockwise from that" - quite a tricky bit of mental gymnastic! Lots of fun and a great idea - nice work!
Man this is infuratingly good. Randomizing the shapes each time is really smart. But I think it's overly mean and mentally painful to have some shapes be "up" by default and some shapes be "left" - it's super mind bending. Animation and presentation and everything is great too.
very fun! but also very hard (；¬д¬)
When I pressed the shape of a tangram and the pieces flew into that figure as we wooshed through that shape in the wooden board, I felt amazed. If you continue to design this, I got stuck at the first board to rotate. I didn't notice the shape and the rotation in time.
Quite interesting game :)
Now this is a game! And a really great take on the theme!
Got a highscore of 9 after a couple of plays. Can't believe that someone got 30. It's so hard!
Also - I love how the game scales. Like how you left out the boring beginning like so many games like this often does not.
Overall, great game!
Hope you guys had a fun time making it =)
Looks amazing and a load of fun! Nice work!
Very cool design and nice artwork, figuring out the fish rotation is very hard though.
Rotating the right way is so hard, but this game is so cool !
Damn! It's so hard that at some point it becomes frustrating :D
Nonetheless it's addictive! ;) Veeery well done!
A very good puzzle, nice graphics, love the rearranging animation
Really fun, but man does it get hard fast. Even on controller it was really hard to remember the turning directions.
It's definitely a cool concept, but gets ridiculously hard. Or maybe I'm just bad at it. :D
Great fun, but I'm terrible at it. Like the sounds, looks good also. Good job!
I was terrible at this but I enjoyed it all the same! The way the tangram reshuffles itself is really cool. Lovely presentation too, right down to the evil laugh when you lose! Great work.
The rotation is a bit strange. Or maybe the game becomme harder too faster...
By the way, cool game.
Really amazing work! I love the cool block shapes. But WOW was that ever hard for me. I wish the "next shape" was never behind the current shape so I could see it better. Awesome job.
Really really hard game about as fun as it was annoying to fail over and over again. It actually took me quite a while to figure out that I couldn't use the rotation to rotate the characters so they faced the direction that seemed logical but that finding the right orientation was a challenge itself. Or if that was not intended, we definitely don't agree on the expected rotation pattern. The fish I kept trying to point its head by using the left control, the giraffe, its head (so their origins are 90 degrees rotated in my mind). If what direction on the left stick maps to what rotation was intended as a puzzle too, then I would suggest adding that complexity a bit later in the game and add some more time between the first couple of patterns to help people starting out with the game. Nicely done though.
Pretty fun and challenging entry but also quite difficult because of how fast the shape seems to be falling. Also an option to invert the keyboard controls (so that WASD changes shape and the arrow keys rotate it) would be nice.
Really hard, especially with some shapes already rotated by defaults, but I had great fun with your game! Good looking, addictive, never ending. It has a huuuge potential! Congrats to you :D
Hard, in a good way. Loved the song, music and the animation.
Wonderful game. I had a lot of fun to try again and again. Its very difficult to reach your own highscore. It looks nice and the music was fine. Well done!
A bit hard (I don't have qwerty keyboard) but nice !
Thanks everybody for the kind words and suggestions! To non-QWERTY keyboard users: on the downloadable version you can remap the controls on the Input tab of the configuration screen. On-screen it will continue to show WASD and arrows (there wasn't time for a more sophisticated approach), but you'll be able to use any key you want :)
Pretty addictive by the way! Managed to get a 22, signed the 7th current world place. Pretty happy! Getting excited each time I beat the mark! Really original way regarding the theme! Well done!
Wise entry, loved the idea and you executed well.
Can't say I didn't have trouble playing it, because it's really hard, but well, no pain, no gain haha. Congratulations.
Really nice idea but sooo hard ^^' Well done though ;)
I agree with the overall opinion that it's too hard. Maybe less freedom at the beginning would help. Anyway the gameplay is solid and it really works.
Im impressed, its really fun to play it, got me playing some time and thats weird for a Ludum game, cool idea used perfectly to accomplish a nice game.
Great graphics and use of the theme on a very responsive gameplay! I don't understand how people can get such scores...
Really fun to play, controls could maybe be tweaked a little. Cute choice of graphics and art.
This is a super lovely game, I really like the choice to go with the tangrams and preset shapes of them because it meant I got to look at a lot of really cool art! My biggest issue was that I was mapping rotation relative to the shape, so for example I kept trying to push right twice to make it pointing up, rather than selecting the correct orientation. This may just be a product of experience using the controller and expecting the analog stick to work in a relative way. It would be interesting to find a way to support both and detect which the player is trying to do, BUT that may cause complications since you have a leaderboard (if one method is inherently easier than the other) so maybe not. Or another thing you could do is isolate the two controls in the beginning, like start off with a single shape that you just have to choose orientation on so people can get used to that before adding both of them together, that might actually clear up a lot. There was a point where the music felt like it was syncing to the movement of the shape holes and it was REALLY COOL feeling. If you had a way of doing that on purpose it might get super interesting results. Nice work!
Solid game, very difficult, but quite pretty.
I like it! Watched it on the stream :D
Great gameplay idea ! Very polished graphics and sounds too. I really liked it but it is a bit difficult. :s
Really neat game, would be nice if it started out a bit slower but love the gameplay
Very fun, but hard! Great work!
Cool game and the scoring feature is good !
Great game) However, it would be better if rotation of object is reseted when you shapeshift it
Very nice game! The leaderboard is awesome
Real nice idea... great fun!!!! :D
That's guite a hard game. I wish the game would start out a bit easier, so that you get into a flow. I also wished the positions of the shapes would be at the same place each time, its really hard to get used to the new positions (on the other hand, if the game would start out easier, it would give you time to get used to the new positions).
In general good graphics and good sound. And quite an innovative idea to combine a guitarhero-esque gameplay with the tandram puzzle.
Great Game! it's insanely addictive, very very good job, complimenti! :)
Hey, this is a really fun game. Cool visuals and good use of theme. Maybe I'm bad at the game but i felt that the learning curve was a bit too harsh and fast.
Very polished! I liked how all the characters were formed of the same set pieces. The game idea is relatively simple but gets tough really fast, and especially the fish was the bane of me. Managed to get 30 points, though!
I saw this being played on Hempuli's stream and after playing it I found it really fun! The animations look really smooth and I like how everything fits together (pun intended :P).
I'm really terrible though, I struggle after three or four goes because of the rotation. It probably would have been manageable if there were only two buttons for rotating pieces (e.g. A+D for rotating left+right) and the direction keys for the shapes.
I must say i feel pretty stupid playing at this game but i have to reckon that it's very well thinking and that you did it perfectly. Nice game helping your brain to get clean :)
Awesome game! Controller controls are fantastic.
the gameplay and the main idea is great, also has the look kind of origamis and i like a lot that, unfortunatly i cant beat more tan 5 shapes, i need more practice, but ill add it to my favs in the browser so ill keep trying to beat the topscore haha! hope you keep working on this, is an amazing idea of shapeshift
SO HARD! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ But also super cool, great job! :D
Difficult but very fun! Bloody controller with different mapping destroyed me though - the hints were not that useful.
I love how it seems so easy but is so hard! Really nice all round!
Tough as nails, but nothing that some playtesting couldn't fix. The base is VERY solid.
Great idea, but a bit fast for me. Couldn't find the correct shape at the bottom quick enough, especially since keeps changing. Awesome take on the theme.
Cool game. My high score was 23. :)
So, puzzle games are not quite my thing, so that affects my view. The game was a good coherent whole. Each part worked well and as intended, I think. More importantly, the parts worked well together. All that being said, it is hard, and not just because you are doing two things at once, nor the speed. Every time you lose, the shapes change, as do their key assignment.
that was awesome! :D
Definitely enjoyed playing this, but I wish you guys introduced the shapeshifting first and then the rotation second. I found the steep difficulty curve a tad off putting. Nice audio and graphics though!
DAMN GOOD GAME!!!!
Score: 7
Arrggg this is frustrating, well done !
Challenging and addictive at the same time. It is a really solid entry. I wouldn't change shapes between plays, I would mantain it to 4 shapes, but it is just an opinion. It is a great game!
Got 13. I don't know how someone managed to get 40 o.o
Well, I am rubbish at this! As soon as I need to rotate I press all the buttons wrong. But it's nice! Well done.
the shifting effect on the blocks is really well done! for me, rotation is really hard to deal with because it's hard to see the shape in the board with the pieces being on top of it. That would probably be an easy fix :) I like that you can pretty much just try again without a pause to start a new game. You really nailed that 'transformation' effect, it feels amazingly satisfying to switch shapes!
Good Tangram-like game with pretty graphics and nice gameplay.
Took me a couple of plays to get it, but after I did, it's ingenious in it's simplicity and overall mechanics. Always liked tangrams and was happy to see someone else does too :D
Thats a very creative Tangram game!! Nicely done! I just think that the dificult could be a little easier on the start of the game, and could get that level of hard on a little more advanced part! But for the rest, its really great!
addictive little game you got here... the rankings really tie you in and make you want to get faster. Good fun game.
What a cool game! My first 5* for Theme.
Congrats for your great game!
There's some brilliant mechanics there. It might be kinder on the difficulty if you had a single 'set' of shapes that didn't change if you lost in that level. I found the bit where you bring in the 'rotate', too early and came in a bit too quick.
Would make a brilliant touch app, you're almost ready to basically plonk it on an iPhone and make some money! Well done buddy :).
My god this is hard! But very good job both in concept/gameplay/graphics and sound. And this re-arranging animation is simply AWESOME !
I liked the game a lot :)
Very challenging. Nice idea
Well made and polished game. But I just can't get the rotation right. I think it would be far easier for me if the left/right keys would just rotate the shape relative to it's current orientation. As already suggested maybe you could provide both control schemes?
simple but addictive concept
Very well realized
Interesting game, but difficult with so much to take into account in short time. Nice touch with different loosing sounds that rotate or is picked by random. Global high score while not really difficult to do if you know some backend development, its still a nice addition.
oh damn that's a hard one :)
i really like that it follows a simple idea but has a nice theme and not "just different shapes". i had fun playing it.
Nice Game. It is kind of mesmeric but i really like it! Great job
Wow! Love the puzzle style. The game difficulty is a little high (at least, the first times that you play it) but when you master the controls it became into a very funny and challenger game. Good work!
This game fits great for the theme :) I had fun playing it, but the difficulty curve is definitely high. Takes time to learn it.
Very addicting and tense game, played it for a while. I'll probably come back to it.
It's really nice to a tangram game!
very funny
Lovely looking, well made. I included it in my video compilation series of Ludum Dare games, if you’d like to check them out :) https://youtu.be/6jh8RTn7UxY
It's pretty difficult given the number of options and rotation.
This was really cool and challenging. It was fun to keep jumping back into it
The controls are not the most intuitive, but this is a great game overall.
Really clever idea, and extremely polished. I'll never reach the lofty heights of that leaderboard though...
This would make a great mobile game!
Ok, you win, "Uncle!" This game is a certain kind of genius that makes me brain no work gud. Extremely well executed, fantastic work!
It's nice, the difficulty is a bit too high for me. Good job!
Wow this is a great entry.
I love that the key-to-shape mapping changes every round. The game never gets easy.
It took me a minute to realize that all of the figures are facing left. Knowing that helps a lot when it gets faster - there's not any time to look at the guides in the corners. But it's still hard to quickly translate the direction they're facing to the right key. It's especially difficult with the more horizontal figures, like the fish and the dog (I think it's a dog). The standing figures like the man and the giraffe are much easier - you just point in the direction of their head.
Smooth animation, great UI, very polished all around. I just realized that "press [down arrow] to begin" is written in a font made from tangram pieces - slick.
I'll keep coming back to this one,... and I'm gonna beat Tommy's score :)
I like it! Good graphics and sounds. A bit difficult but it is a good idea.