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Bright Plateau

By fmdkdd and merwaaan

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall214.2647
Fun184.1347
Innovation374.0647
Theme1044.0247
Graphics1644.1547
Audio1533.6546
Mood604.0837

Comments

jhandsy 2017-08-02 05:39

This was really fun! Good job! I thought the puzzles had just enough parts and they were just challenging enough! I couldn't hear any sound, and that would have been nice, but perhaps that was an issue on my end.

Fun, Good Looking, and Inventive! Nice work!

carsen-d 2017-08-02 07:22

Very nice and calming game. I really like the overall atmosphere with the music and bright colors, just something very soothing about it, even as you accidentally cause people's homes to smolder.

asofi 2017-08-02 07:35

Looks incredibly, really good graphics, audio and gameplay.

toadietechnika 2017-08-02 07:35

This game is really cute, I loved it! The soothing atmosphere and the puzzle elements of the game really blend with the theme. Would consider this as one of my favorite entries here :D Great job!

eliana 2017-08-02 15:53

Definitely enjoyed it; the mechanics of each different power source were well done, though i will say there were some points where I thought moving something somewhere would overload a house but it actually didn't...the game seems to be a little fickle about when a house gets overloaded or not. ;) Anyway, it's a nice little game; good job on your entry!

dirkinz 2017-08-02 16:03

Excellent job on the game guys. The puzzles were really well designed and the graphics were stunning.

gabrielbucsan 2017-08-02 16:04

Fun and chalenging, quite cute and polished. Congratulations to the team!

balthatrix 2017-08-02 16:07

This is a really fun game! A nice, relaxing puzzle game. Definitely recommend. I think I got stuck on lvl 8 or so.

jtn191 2017-08-02 18:53

nice art and sfx, the music could be improved. nice idea! simple and effective

duskpn 2017-08-02 20:32

Amazing! The puzzle mechanic is intuitive and smart and you take the time to introduce each element before actual puzzles.

I absolutely adore the low res 3D graphics!

I'm not usually one for puzzle games, but this is certainly of one my favorite games this LD!

dankypants 2017-08-02 20:38

Love the style and relaxing music. Clever puzzles and good amount of content!

sanguine 2017-08-02 20:43

Really enjoyed this!It was really soothing & I got quite far, but then I ran into a crash :( Not really sure what caused it unfortunately.

aleal-dev 2017-08-03 00:46

Sincerely, one of the games that I have enjoyed the most in this LD at this moment.

Positive: * Well established puzzles with very simple mechanics. * Love the night/day thing. * Fits the jam theme extremely well. * Music is perfect for this kind of game. * Controls are intuitive.

Negative: * I wanted more of it!

Concratulations. Very solid entry!!

hadik 2017-08-03 19:21

Chill game, nice soundtrack :) Simple logic game, nice entry and very original :)

tyler-miller 2017-08-03 22:33

Simple, good puzzles, nice graphics and overall mood, while fitting the theme, such a solid game! Well done :)

kleinzach 2017-08-04 00:28

Absolutely loved it. Great mood from created from the art and audio. I honestly cant think of anything I would have done better. One of the best I've seen so far.

didactylos 2017-08-04 00:41

I was a little doubtful about this game to start with, but once I figured out the puzzle mechanic, I loved it. The art style is excellent, and mostly well executed.

The shadows are a bug/issue in Unity that I've struggled with myself. It's caused by the very low resolution camera causing the shadow map size to be too small. In your case, you have a fixed iso camera, so you could cheat with the shadows, creating your own shadow maps and overlaying them.

The other issue is the green/brown edge, and that's simply a matter of making sure you don't have coplanar meshes. An easy fix!

elliottd 2017-08-04 22:46

very good, relaxing puzzle game. i like the low res and 3d style. feels good to just figure out the puzzle without instruction and move on at your own pace. A level indicator could be good to communicate to other players where you got stumped, but only if you thought that wouldn't distract from the peaceful atmosphere. great work.

kunostatos 2017-08-05 12:50

Really fun. Liked it a lot!

asixjin 2017-08-05 13:25

Very relaxing puzzle game. The puzzles were pretty good too.

clutterarranger 2017-08-05 13:26

Just awesome. Didnt have time to play it all right now but i will play again. All i could ask is an explanatory tutorial level.

remzo 2017-08-05 13:43

Excellent entry! Very relaxing music and cool graphics! Got stuck on the level with the day/night and battery. Cool puzzles and concept! Wasn't sure what the battery did at first but I think it powers the tiles next to it if it itself is powered? Still not too sure. Good work!

schokoketzer 2017-08-05 13:58

Simple yet very elegant puzzle game with nice sfx, ambient music and graphics. Very well done and quite good on the amount of content you managed to create. Well Done!

reiv 2017-08-05 14:04

I like the graphics a lot! The puzzles are well thought. I wasn't sure what made a house to get overloaded,specially when there was 2 or more in the same spot. Nice mechanic and concept!

gabet-games 2017-08-05 14:06

Awesome! I liked the progression of the game. It seemed very natural to me. :D

nalia1991 2017-08-05 14:06

Very interesting puzzle game. Simple, yet quite challenging. Ni level progression (and so much level!) Nice music too: fits with the puzzle game.

However, the mouse pointer seemed to bug in the night level: I couldn't click on the tile under my cursor: it was aiming a the tile above. It was very confusing.

Very solid entry: loved it: good puzzle!!

smbe19 2017-08-05 14:16

Really cool game. The music was a bit too low. I found puzzle mechanic very interesting and some levels are quite challenging. The added "dimension" with the night is also very cool.

mamoniem 2017-08-05 14:46

Good job. The game is good for those reasons: - Good puzzles. - Not very repetitive. - Loved the pixiling shader for the 3d meshes. - I didn't face bugs or problems while playing or loading, while lots of webgel Unity3d games fail to load usually. - LOVED the music!

-m

tori 2017-08-05 16:01

Great atmosphere, i love the puzzles, even tho i struggled to understand all the rules There a lot of good idea, and the music is so relaxing, very peacefull, i enjoyed taking my time to think about the puzzles Great work overall !

fmdkdd 2017-08-05 17:26

Thanks for all the great feedback! We were quite satisfied with the state of the game when the deadline came, and all this warm feedback makes it all the more worthwhile.

@didactylos Though we did *not* use Unity, I guess your suggestion for the shadows would still work with THREE.js, though having them in low resolution was intended, as was the Z-fighting.

@sanguine Aw, sorry to hear about the crash! We fixed a memory leak today that might have caused it. In any case, level progress has been saved in your browser since the start, so reloading the page would have allowed you to keep playing.

unoion 2017-08-07 11:51

I really enjoyed playing your game. Cute pixelated graphics and calm soundtrack perfectly fits together. Well done!

jima 2017-08-08 13:43

Really fun game. Easily the best game I've player at this LD. It was perfect from the beginning, but when night levels kicked in, my jaw just dropped. Very interesting approach on graphics. Looks like you are using 3d graphics and adding pixel shader on top of it. If this is the case, I wonder how it looks without shader. Maybe it would be looking cooler as minimalistic 3d lowpoly game. It totally looks like finished game. Congrats, awesome entry!

bombjack 2017-08-12 10:34

The game is really good. Sometimes when powering houses with multiple power source there are overpowered, and sometimes not. I've not been able to determine exactly when. It also tend to be unclear why some houses are powered and others not when on the same tile. Besides that, this is an amazing entry. Really, really good job :smile:

alxm 2017-08-19 20:37

Very polished puzzle game, I love the low-res 3D graphics and ambient music. The tutorial maps at the beginning do a good job of introducing how this works, and the level designs are fun.