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Pixelander

By eddynardo

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness284
Innovation1333.63
Overall1523.62
Fun1613.52
Graphics2093.44
Humor2452.72
Theme5882.54

Comments

BonozoApps 2016-12-12 05:13

15 levels of genuine fun, loved it, thanks for making this

qzqxq 2016-12-13 07:01

Game doesn't open on OS/X for me, but this looks really cool so I'll try this on a windows partition.

jurgler 2016-12-13 07:09

I really like the idea of the game. Somehow I just got to level 2 right now, but i'll try again later. Nice graphics.. no sound?! It feels a bit random for me when the door opens?
But I still think that this is a solid entry with a lot of potential! Maybe I am just too stupid right now to play it ^^

eddynardo 2016-12-13 07:18

@Jurgler door opens only when one person is alive, please read the whole description to understand how to play, I didn't have much time to make an ingame tutorial, sorry about that

qzqxq 2016-12-13 07:35

Okay, I just played through the first 9 levels. Here are some thoughts:
-The graphics are great, and this is super impressive for <24 hours.
-The gameplay idea is similarly great and has tons of potential.
-The puzzles themselves...not as great. It sort of feels like you cobbled them together at the end, threw in a bunch of objects, and left it to the player to figure it out.
-It was super frustrating being forced to use all of the objects in my inventory before I could start. Sometimes I wanted to place just one or two objects to see how a specific knight reacts to that (or just press space at the very beginning to see what happens when I do nothing, in order to iterate on that), so being forced to also place the other 5 objects in random places was annoying.

I guess in general, I like puzzle games with handcrafted puzzles where you feel smart for figuring out the solution. Unfortunately I didn't really feel that way for this game because a lot of the time I would solve a level "by accident." I think what would have helped is if there were less given objects (e.g. I did level 7 with a single block) and only a few possible solutions, forcing the player to puzzle out where it could be.

Again, I think this makes a great premise for a game, and if you had more time to design the puzzles I'm sure I would have loved this!

bluethelemon 2016-12-13 12:50

Love this puzzle game ! Simple rules but lots of depth.

I would have loved a little more freedom in the building phase. (Like erase stuff, or launch before using all the elements)

In general, with a quicker iteration times a a great Soundtrack, this game will be AWESOME !

Congratulation !

hawksandwich 2016-12-13 12:50

I really do like this one. I like that you picked a mechanic and made 15 levels from it. The graphics aren't bad, the controls are perfectly explained and easy to get a grip on. I like that there are multiple ways to beat a level and that there are no game breaking glitches (that I found ;)) Good job :D

starlight-glimmer-is-best-poney 2016-12-13 12:57

Not working for me. You should provide a 32-bit libnss3.so with your Linux release.

eddynardo 2016-12-13 13:23

@Starlight glimmer is best poney
I found this on the game engine manual for linux support, maybe it can help??

On Linux, the following command enables execute permission for the file 'mygame'. Run this from the terminal to ensure the file can be run:

chmod a+x mygame

jungle 2016-12-13 14:39

Honnestly, this is a very wonderful concept. I dont like puzzles but this one is really great. I just dont think if fit the theme. Great work!!

tommy 2016-12-13 23:13

Great game, feels really smooth and it's interesting to play. I finished it and I just feel like it's a bit hard on the first stages but easily exploitable and way easier in the last levels, especially when you unlock the teleport. But hey, you can't have everything perfect in a jam!

maffew 2016-12-14 14:34

genuinely fun and interesting puzzle game, Well done

megalink 2016-12-14 14:36

This is great! Some levels felt too similar but it is still very well designed! Good job man!!

almax27 2016-12-14 14:40

Simple, polished, loads of content. This is fantastic! Reminded me of Lemmings :)

obvious-industries 2016-12-14 14:55

Cool game, the mechanics work quite well.

donar 2016-12-15 13:24

Nice concept, fun game! Sure it can be improved here and there but for 48 hours it's really neat.

hlavik211 2016-12-15 13:30

Good game

devastus 2016-12-15 13:32

Amazing stuff for 18 hours. And also quite fun mechanics, I'd have enjoyed it more though if I had the possibility to just press Space and see what happens regardless of how many pieces I've used. And the really small resolution made it sometimes hard to see stuff.
But I mean, 18 hours to produce an actually fun game. Sheesh.

eddynardo 2016-12-15 13:41

@Devastus thank you very much.
About the resolution, you could resize the window to fit the entire screen, it just looks small when you start the game, but it is resizable

chrisostome 2016-12-15 13:57

Nicely done. The concept is works pretty well, I'm sure the puzzle could be very interesting with some fine tuning.

splendidus 2016-12-15 14:58

Good job.

kerr 2016-12-16 05:42

This feels a lot like the game lemmings, which is a good thing! Clever puzzles with limited mechanics. I did wish there were sounds for things; it was fun!

etherealpsychegames 2016-12-16 18:39

Nice concept. I love puzzle games and you did a great one for this jam. At least you could add some music, FX and animation to win a 10/10/

murilo 2016-12-16 18:42

Can't remember last time I had to think so hard for something apparently so simple. Good level designs with little variety and simple mechanics. Also it's funny how the soldiers explode on contact haha

urbanhelsing 2016-12-16 18:56

Fun and innovative. Very impressive for only 18 hours

misaghdroid 2016-12-20 14:57

very nice game and i loved the puzzles but i found them too difficult for beginning of the game

mirta000 2016-12-27 06:32

quite an amusing little game.

afenda 2016-12-28 12:26

Great puzzle game ! pixel art is good. Keep it up !

xanjos 2017-01-03 00:20

Could do with some sound but it was a fun entry with some really interesting puzzle design and well thought out object mechanics. As mentioned when I was playing on my stream earlier, it does kind of need an option to delete objects instead of restarting the level.

obvious_san 2017-01-03 00:45

Great little puzzle game, with really lovely pixel art. The puzzle mechanics build up quite well, but towards the end some of the puzzles become solvable with only a few of the provided pieces. For example, the last puzzle I think you can solve with just the two blocks from the start of the game! I imagine that is down to time constraints though, and overall it is a really fun game.

- randomhuman

jupiter_hadley 2017-01-06 15:53

Lovely graphics, challenging puzzles! I included it in my compilation video series of the Ludum Dare 37 games, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/gkZsQxjDEm8