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Coastal Postal

By dom and AmyPie80

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1653.8639
Fun2333.6838
Innovation2753.5239
Theme4513.5640
Graphics1434.2541
Humor4933.0935
Mood1943.7641

Comments

iovorobiev 2017-12-05 14:01

Great entry! It was very interesting and I completed the game. Puzzles are not very difficult but still force you to think, which makes the game relaxing and entertaining

meursault 2017-12-05 16:25

Very good game, i really like it. The graphics are nice and some of the routes are difficult to figure out. The controls are a little clunky, just not really smooth. Besides that i loved it!

kokirisandfriends 2017-12-05 16:28

Nice graphics and very well executed retro vibes! However, the pixel typography is a bit hard to read sometimes but it's still enjoyable thanks to its colors and puzzles!

rontz 2017-12-05 17:22

Nice Puzzle, it makes you think a little bit, and i like the retro graphics =) In the beginning, i didn't get which routes you can take, and which not. The music is relaxing. Well done!

papacheech 2017-12-05 17:29

this is great. The graphics were killer especially for such a low res art style.. good work!

flip120 2017-12-05 17:35

Nice art, I love it 👍

unfinished 2017-12-05 17:59

Great game. I just did not really get, which nodes are reachable from a node and which ones are not. For example I could not go from the post office to the flower farm, but all the way to the residence on the top left? This could be made a little bit clearer? Or did I not get something in the instructions? Nice work anyway!

amypie80 2017-12-05 18:13

Hey @unfinished, thanks for all the lovely compliments. Our stop bypasses were chosen to be relevant to the puzzles- just a little misdirection to keep things interesting! :)

cremagames 2017-12-05 19:55

I'm in love with the minimalist art. Very nice game and a really good idea. Moving the map is a bit pain in the ass but bearable thanks to the lovely graphics and music.

dom 2017-12-05 20:37

@cremagames thanks! Yeah, I wanted to give it a little bit of a retro feel by making it keyboard-only. Moving the map via the mouse probably would have been much better.

wakka2 2017-12-05 21:15

Very nice puzzle game. Played through all levels :)

2017-12-05 23:30

I love these graphics, I wish could sprite as good as that! And the game was really fun, thumbs up from me!

andrewjadams 2017-12-05 23:37

Great concept but I echo what was said above about the controls being a little "clunky". Tapping the cross hair felt a bit jarring, maybe move the cross hair and then smoothly glide the camera to the new position?

xeloglaz 2017-12-05 23:37

Great concept, great execution. I like the style of this game and it demand to think a bit :slight_smile:

jean 2017-12-05 23:40

Nice puzzle with lovely graphics! The text font is kinda hard to read in my opinion tho :(

Great game!

dom 2017-12-05 23:43

@andrewjadams I actually had the same idea but didn't get a chance to try it. I wonder if this could count as a bug fix, probably not :)

2017-12-06 16:18

Very cute game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 40 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlEs2Zt4em8

sherwood 2017-12-06 17:20

Very nice little puzzle game. I really like the way you played on the theme with these kind of puzzle. Also the way you gave it a context. However I'm being stuck at a the same point as @unfinished. Don't know if I'm not smart enough or if it's a lack of explanations. Great entry though !

roycocup 2017-12-06 19:09

This is very good indeed! The screen size is actually too big for my screen but everything else is really good fun :)

dom 2017-12-06 22:52

@roycocup what's your screen resolution? :)

arly 2017-12-07 06:46

Sweet interpretation of traveling salesman! :grin: I really liked the art style and music - they really conveyed the homey island feel. Thought it was a bit confusing that you could cross back over small sections of roads, even though you couldn't pass the same stops again. Maybe to move through the map, you could actually just jump right between different nodes, since they're on a grid system anyway?

stmatn 2017-12-07 08:17

Very nice game! The music is great, but the program crashed when it seemd, that the music track reached its end. It was a bit strange, that I couldn't move to the flower cottage directly, while there was a crear path. It would be nice, if you could make the movement radius visible, somehow. However I really had fun playing the game. Great work!

dom 2017-12-07 20:52

@stmatn interesting. What OS is this on? Thank you for the kind words. We tried to get you to explore by making the paths a little less clear, hopefully it wasn't too confusing (although I also wonder where you were travelling from) :)

tuzepoito 2017-12-09 11:55

Nice little "travelling salesman" game! I like the simple, relaxing retro graphics. As stated by another commenter, the main drawback is that it's sometimes not very obvious which locations are reachable from a given location, and which ones aren't. Good job, overall!