Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD50 → Detour
By dustyroom
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 74 | 4.11 | 40 | |
| Fun | 96 | 4.05 | 40 | |
| Innovation | 16 | 4.31 | 40 | |
| Theme | 440 | 3.86 | 40 | |
| Graphics | 127 | 4.40 | 40 | |
| Audio | 45 | 4.23 | 40 | |
| Mood | 63 | 4.26 | 39 |
Don't be spooked by the download links, it does in fact play in browser! Very fun miniature involving pathfinding, would make a good mobile project.
Feedback: The camera gets stuck sometimes and it's hard to see allowed places to put blocks. Would love to see right click to cancel placement and scroll wheel to rotate.
Beautiful game. Love the aesthetic and gamefeel. Gorgeous music. Snapping of tiles feels super satisfying. The mechanic is interesting but feels a bit easy. Like maybe it would be better suited for small, hand-crafted levels, because right now it's a bit trivial.
Side note: my condolences for what is being done to your country. Be safe.
This game has a very pleasing look and feel throughout including the tutorial. It's very calming to play with its zen audio.
This game is so relaxing and enjoyable; I could sit and play and enjoy the music for hours on end. Fantastic job!
Awesome idea, I love the relaxing music and gameplay. The game is a bit simple so far, but it has potential:)
Your game is awesome! I like it very much. So calm and very interesting in its idea, which fits to the theme very well. This was very fun to play. I like that this is a puzzle game and i like the many possibilities you have. Music and sounds and graphics are nice, relaxing and the latter very nice to look at and clean in its style. I like that much. And I like the pathfinding, which really helps to orientate yourself. Very well done!
Really nice game. Good graphics, sound and music. Really well polished overall. The idea is good and interesting as well. It as if you made an illustration of a path finding algorithm into a game. Really cool!
there are bugs in some places, but this does not prevent the game from being lamp-like
Very well done, with an interesting mechanic and good interpretation of the theme. The behavior of the cube could be explained a little better, but that's OK. An excellent experience in the end.
Nice flat design and gameplay. Really like it, it was challenging and fun to play with! It gets into my collection :) Nice entry
Really cool design! That combination of mechanics works so well, and really enjoy the aspect of having multiple destinations to be aware of. Everything was soo satisfying too! The sounds and animations.
Very well polished! This would make a really good game for mobile.
Woah what a polished great game! Music and sounds are perfect, with a novel fun puzzle I think this game could go places. Thank you!
Relaxing music for a nice puzzle game. Good work!
This game is so polished! It is so hard to believe that it is made in 72 hours, but I have reviewed your past ld games before, so I know, "It's the dustyroom, of course," lmao. The Tetris-like gameplay is very interesting, and I am thinking of the possibility of adding different layers if you could have more time. It is an excellent prototype to start with anything you could think of. Impressive work!
Nice game, I like the music and the puzzle gameplay is nice!
This game is so wonderful and polished. The music is very nice and relaxing, and I had a lovely time playing it. Thank you for submitting!
really like the polish, especially the small wiggle when snapping to the grid!
i think i dont like that you can actually win, since that kinda conflicts with the theme of the jam
Clever, fun, original and polished. I loved it, this is the kind of game I could play for hours.
One of my favourites, good job.
Quite a nice puzzle game. I think the concept is pretty unique and figuring out how to walk the block over the bonuses was interesting. I do agree that not being able to 'win' would be better fitted for the theme. Possibly by giving the 'enemy' some block destruction skills/ability.
It's a nice little puzzle game. I can imagine myself enjoy working on it :) Congratulations
Very clever mechanics! I think this was an excellent out of the box application of the theme with something I have not seen before.
I like the simple clean presentation, chill music.
I feel the tutorial screens are not particularly useful as there are a few too many screens without any context. But as the mechanics are simple it does not really matter.
As a small nitpick I wished clicking on another card would swap it, instead of having to press esc to deselect.
I would definitely play this some more! Especially if you can add some more scenarios, like maybe multiple enemies to block etc
Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my stream!
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1450143040?t=6h42m15s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
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Pretty solid submission, wish i could scroll down the screen a bit more, I came across several cases where there was a long section for the block to travel and i could not move to the bottom of it to try to block the path. Music was nice ambient and the visual style is nice and distinct
This is a great take on the theme, and a fun to play... endless puzzler. The visuals are simple but lovely, and the core mechanic is enjoyable. Some feedback about what the path finding will do when you're hovering a piece would probably be a nice addition in the future.
Wow, very nice!
Brilliant concept, the aesthetic was gorgeous! It took awhile for me to understand the game, I got it in the end, but if might be nice to have a simple tutorial stage in the beginning to teach the concepts.
Neat puzzle! A little bit hard to understand at start, the tutorial gives a lot of information in one go. But once I understood the rules, it was really satisfying to delay the cube as much as possible. Maybe it could also indicates the number of moves the cube will do, as sometimes I wasn't sure how much it would progress. But I still managed to keep going for a while, it's quite fun to balance the cube progression and blocking its path. The visuals and sounds are also pretty nice. Good job!
Gorgeous-looking game. Only problem is that it is a bit hard to figure out how the grey tiles where you can place blocks are decided. On WebGL the ESC button also makes you go out of fullscreen mode instead of actually retracting your pieces.
But seriously though. This game is amazing. The UI looks clean and very polished (the kind of UI I want to go for in my game(s)), the visuals simple but pleasing, and the minimalistic music really gets you in the mood. I really see the potential for this game to win Ludum Dare.
Neat idea, I liked the puzzle element very much. One potential improvement I could see being helpful would be a better way to tell which way the cube will go if I place a block in a particular spot. Very cool game!