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Candy!

By ratstail91 and logic-monkey

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2413.8028
Fun724.0128
Innovation4173.5627
Theme10322.8827
Graphics3123.9027
Humor5292.9725
Mood2953.6325

Comments

teo-sk 2018-04-23 19:28

This is super fun, I love the magic switching theme!

vyolfers 2018-04-23 19:38

Such a cute puzzle game xD I love the theme, as well as the graphic~ was confused at first, until I realized it was "E" scorched on the ground.

alex-lemming 2018-04-23 19:46

Soooo cool! Amazing gameplay, really fun to play

adroitconceptions 2018-04-23 21:12

- game play was interesting up to the point were you had to keep pushing the frozen bomb farther and farther to the next rock wall. - art was great - music/SFX were good

mza 2018-04-23 21:28

Nice puzzle mechanics and great artwork.In terms of feedback, I fealt that I had to do a lot of back-tracking to get the candy.

kobrar 2018-04-23 21:41

My only complaint is that E doesn't look like an E. Otherwise, I think it's great.

mintarcade 2018-04-24 14:23

Great game, music is amazingly cool.

adroitconceptions 2018-04-25 00:40

came back again after realizing from the comments that E cycles your power (also, note the color shifts are hard to see if color blind) that made the game much more interesting.

chronofeed 2018-04-25 02:38

The game does a good job of teaching you your abilities to solve the puzzles.

waraiko 2018-04-27 09:58

Got stuck for a bit at a glitch with invisible frozen bomb, but it's really fun game, would love to see more of it!

antti-haavikko 2018-04-27 09:59

Nice mechanic, sweet tunes and crispy spritework!

First of all, the block pushing was horribly slow and you had to do it once because you only learned about color switching after that spot. The blocks and bombs were also very good at getting stuck on walls.

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The mechanic was interesting and could probably and you could do a lot more with it, you pretty much just scratched the surface here. Quite a few of the puzzles felt a bit samey and it pretty much ended right after I started getting used to the powers. The amount of tutorial was spot on. I like how you weren't too hand-holdy and just game the player the tools and left it for themselves to figure out how to use them properly in a safe and contained space where you'd have to figure them out to proceed.

The visuals had some weird glitches all the time. The grass flickered with some extra lines every now and then and the sprite depth orders were constantly messing up like this. candyzissues.png

There was also a weird inconsistency where if you stood too close, your flames didn't go past the bushes. And then right in the end there was a possibility to completely soft lock yourself out of the game. Too bad the weird wall clipping inconsistencies didn't affect the player and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't glitch out of there. I had to completely start from the scratch just to find out that it was the end.

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All in all, good job!

robowarrior1982 2018-04-27 17:11

This game is great it reminds me of the puzzle game on game boy of my childhood! As said before the blocks are a little slow to push, and the "physics" of the blocks is strange! otherwise the puzzles and the powers are well brought it's nice work! Some small bugs to correct and we have the excellent retro game!

tim-ruswick 2018-04-28 03:24

I love this!! Great idea for a puzzle game. Great implementation of the puzzles.

palsina 2018-04-30 22:27

Well designed mechanics and puzzles, I really liked it even if it doesn't fit the theme that well.

geckoo1337 2018-04-30 22:47

Interesting concept and fun gameplay. Music is great. Well done ++

crabman 2018-04-30 23:54

Damn, this is a really good entry. I had to read the comments to understand the E was an instruction, not just scorched ground, but that was really fun and great puzzles. Love it!

joemid 2018-05-01 00:10

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Had a few graphical glitches, other than that- pretty fantastic. I was stumped by the double walls for a moment. Really smooth gameplay and clever puzzles.

solluxx 2018-05-01 03:07

One of the more fun games I've played in this jam. The level/puzzles were well designed and kept things interesting. I'm not sure I was feeling the theme too strongly, but it's a good name nonetheless!

weekend-panda 2018-05-01 03:28

Great job! This was a fun game to play, and the puzzles were interesting all the way through. Not sure what "incompatible genres" it was combining, but it was a good time regardless. :)

infinitycore 2018-05-01 04:13

too short, you should add more levels

urban-logic-games 2018-05-01 17:10

This was great! I initially made the error of assuming I had to be on the E icon in order to change (no idea why) so I kept backtracking. Once I realised you could change at any time things really clicked. Great work, would love to see more!