Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → Puzzle blast
By stmatn
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 3.42 | 16 | ||
| Fun | 3.67 | 16 | ||
| Innovation | 3.42 | 16 | ||
| Theme | 2.85 | 16 | ||
| Graphics | 2.85 | 16 | ||
| Audio | 2.60 | 16 | ||
| Humor | 2.27 | 13 | ||
| Mood | 2.42 | 15 |
An interesting puzzle! Was a little confusing at first - it isn't obvious to me that the hints show relative position of items (I thought the hints say that I should exchange those items or smth like that), but figured it out. Gets hard pretty quickly, with a 4x4 board you really start to need pen & paper to lay out all the possibilities. Reminds me of sudoku-type puzzles. Nice job!
I think it's a really great puzzle game. It's a nice take on a sudoku like puzzle. I also really like that you can right click to lay it out. I think in the late game it was hard to identify the graphics as they were so small.
Thank you all for your feedback :)
@lisyarus It seems you used the graph based approach to find the solution. That is basically "hard mode" :D Well done. You could have right clicked the icons on the playing field to find the solution by elimination of impossible locations for certain items ;)
@kubbl You mentioned an important point with the identification of icons on late levels. Maybe I should have added a magnification feature.
Cool puzzle game, took me a little while to figure out what those on the right represent but solid work.
Left click to select / **Right Click to deselect**
The second one was really important, I only figured it out in the 4x4 puzzle. You can cheese it out, since you have only 1/16th chance of making a mistake by right clicking at random. Then if you do make a mistake you found the correct one and you solve the puzzle!
Nice puzzle game overall! Did you made the board by hand or do you have a clever algorithm to make sure there is enough clues ?
looks pretty
An interesting puzzle game for sure. Took a while for me to figure out how it works, but after that it was pretty neat. Very easy though after you figure out the first object. Nice job overall!
Love the graphic, in my opinion, the UI kind of lacks, maybe improve on UI next time
Nice game! Designing a puzzle is hard in 48 hours. I have found that after getting a starting point from the hints, you need to do guess work. Having 3 hearths helps with that. After that, it's only following the hints.
A really nice puzzle. The hints aren't the clearest to understand but once you realise they are saying that the two symbols must be next to each other in the orientation shown it's possible to solve the puzzles by working through the logic :smile:. Would definitely be interesting if other relations were allowed (e.g. They are this orientation but not necessarily next to each other).
Great puzzle! Also took me a while to understand, but was fun once I got it.
*(Disclaimer: Puzzle lover here)* The puzzle is simple once you get how to solve it, you just need time, so (for a puzzle lover) a timer would add to the challenge.
Interesting take on the obvious "go deeper to find more gemstones" interpretation of the theme. Good job!