Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD52 → Bearly Fitting
By joykangpae, jamdong15, morgie and GrantK
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 77 | 4.00 | 39 | |
| Fun | 159 | 3.81 | 39 | |
| Innovation | 568 | 3.02 | 39 | |
| Theme | 462 | 3.62 | 39 | |
| Graphics | 78 | 4.36 | 39 | |
| Mood | 68 | 4.11 | 38 |
awesome game! I like the art and the color blending which gives a relaxing mood for playing and the mechanics is straightforward and easy to understand, the gameplay is a good fit the shapes puzzle ,that has a good learning curve, overall I enjoyed playing this one! congratulations! keep it up!
Beautiful art! Really sets you in the mood. The first puzzle was pretty challenging haha. Only recommendation I have is that if you drop a crop onto another, it should swap their positions if a fit is possible.
slow and relax gameplay, might a little simple though. the little comic is pretty cute!
@ironhandmd Thank you so much for your feedback! I'm so happy to hear that you like the art :^D We wanted to go for a cute, autumn-y vibe so it matched the slower pace of the game. Thanks again!
Great graphics, fun gameplay. The rotation was a little unintuitive to discover (had to go RTFM) but once I got there, I was good to go. Some hard levels there. Nice work!
This game is very clever and I enjoyed the art style! I
@binroot Hello!! Thanks for the feedback :^D Some of the puzzles are definitely challenging... I just gave up on some of them... But that is an interesting feature, thanks for the suggestion!
hi @haotian-chen! thanks for the review! We definitely had more features we didn't get to implement, but I'm glad you found it relaxing :D
This game is pretty great. The audio is peaceful and I like the illustrative style to the art. I kinda wish I didn't have to click through the opening comic but still turned out really good. The only thing that affected the gameplay flow for me was that it doesn't tell you anywhere in the game screen about rotating tiles.
I loved the little comic presentation, it was adorable! I got stuck around puzzle 5, but in fairness I've never been great at this kind of puzzle. I still enjoyed my play, and the game has a lot of charm!
I would have liked to see the outlines of the piece shapes when hovering over them in the bin. I had some trouble learning what veggies where what shapes, and I feel that wasn't helping me when I was stuck. Another improvement would be to put some kind of hint button that shows a single piece of the intended solution. There are a lot of "logic traps" and after several attempts at building the grid I really wanted to know a fresh way to start or just get a nudge in the right direction.
The art style is cool and the puzzles are interesting. Nice game!
This was nice to quickly jump into and exercise the puzzle-solving muscles :) esp with the relaxing music, kind of envisioning this style as a daily-crossword replacement every morning. Nice job!
Excellent Game! The intro was super cute. I was a bit confused until I went and read outside of the game that you could rotate the pieces, it would have been nice to have them visible somewhere in game. I wish I could have seen the shape of the food when on the right side, for convenience. I really liked the idea that certain food can't be next to other food. Thanks for the game!
Very nice simple game. Cozy mood
Super relaxing game and very beautiful graphics. I love the rule of not being able to put bananas next to onions. This creates some nice difficulty and I see the potential of future levels having even more rules like this. :) The music in the end was a bit loud, though ;)
Wonderful experience :) very relaxing, I love the music.
Love me a puzzle game. A simple classic concept but had me hooked to the end. Lovely art.
So cute and cozy! It felt really relaxing, though I'm not sure why I'm unable to rotate the pieces.
@miyukiew Glad you liked the vibes! :) You can rotate the pieces by using Z/X. Unfortunately, there wasn't much time to implement a tutorial during the jam ;-;
Nice game, I like the art, especially the comics in the beginning. I like the level of challenge, I was sure those kind of games are piece of cake and this one made me turn on my brain on (and then probably turn it on again even more) :laughing:
It took some time to understand how to rotate tiles, and I had a problem on the third level (I think) where you didn't suppose to put onion near banana, at some point after putting things back and forth I couldn't put some items in some places anymore (even when I emptied the grid).
@jamdong15 Ok cool! It works! The difficulty for each level is good, not too easy but still achievable!
At first I didn't find we can rotate pieces and I think this game was impossible ! Then I read description and it was more easy... or not ^^' Despite of this the difficulty is really well balanced between "too easy to for glory" and "too hard" and it's not easy to do that ! And your arts (soung and musics) fit really well with theme/mood so for all that : Gongrats you did an awesome game ! :D
@thejookerful thank you so much for your kind words! :)
quick question, we actually added a pop-up showing the controls for the game (along with how to rotate the pieces) that appears before the first level of the game (look at picture). were you able to see it? if not, i'll have to let our developer know.
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I wish you can see the uhh grid style of the fruit while they are still int the bin so its easier to visualize how they fit in. Had fun :D
Nice relaxing game. Lovely graphics and picture book story. Last level had me trying some time. :thumbsup:
Love this! The last level took me a while, and was so satisfying. I loved the art and the music, so beautiful and relaxing!
Nice relaxing game I enjoyed my time playing it
Awesome idea! I'm reminded backpack hero, I think it would be fun to develop like that
so sweet! i love the art and really enjoyed piecing the crops together :) relaxing and enjoyable
I tried for a while but couldn't get past 5/6. I'll come back to it again tomorrow.
@sean-esopenko popular opinion seems to be that level 5 is the hardest level. we're so flattered you'd want to come back and try again :)
I have finished it! But it took time :smile:, a lot of time! Nice relaxing game, great textures, calm music. Not much inovative, but nicely done. I wonder how you created those levels, did you used some maps/items positions from similar game? The difficulty for me was just ideal, not to difficult to leave the game, but difficult enough to enjoy the time solving it. Great job!
@karlo5o thank you for your kind words! :) we created the levels ourselves. we created an "answer key" by assembling the puzzle pieces on a grid. for certain levels, we made them more difficult by placing certain pieces in very specific locations and utilizing the more awkward/big puzzle pieces. glad you enjoyed!
@jamdong15 thanks for clarification, great job!
damn, took me way longer than expected to complete level 6 but i eventually made it, nice puzzle game
When I first saw this design I was actually a little intimidated. It seemed like there was total freedom in combinations and that it would take a long time to figure out how to place things. I'm not sure *exactly* why, but it ended up being easier than I expected! In a good way - I was pleasantly surprised.
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The banana/onion combo helped a lot actually. Rather than being an obstacle, it actually reduced the solution space a good amount and helped me make easier decisions. It's a good thing you didn't add TOO many more rules because I'm not sure if I could've remembered them all lol
A final, neat touch you had was the cool night/sunset victory screen. It's an unusual combination of colors and elements so it really stuck out to me, and gave it a nice cozy send-off.
I really enjoyed the game. It actually reminds me of Wordle in the sense that the game seems hard at first, but due to the rulesets and constraints, the game is easier than perceived and made me feel extra accomplished. So I'll just ignore that fact and pretend I was clever playing the game :)
When I saw the grid become larger in level 5 I was intimidated, but somehow I felt that level 5 and 6 were easier than the first 4. I placed the difficult blocks first and then with 1-3 tries usually could fit in the rest. I think that's fine though. Having them not be too difficult makes the puzzles less frustrating and more fun.
@bcmpinc that's the strategy that i use as well! glad you enjoyed. :)
@peachtreeoath actually, we had a few people who straight up couldn't solve a level and gave up so perhaps you're better at puzzles than you're giving yourself credit for :D
Nice game! I'd imagine it's tough to design several levels for a game like this (there's only so many ways to pack things into a tight space after all), but you guys pull it off really well! I especially like that added mechanic of the onions and bananas which really helps to change up the levels. I thought the comic-style opening was really nice too.
A very traditional jigsaw puzzle gameplay, simple and easy to understand. I have an almost the same jigsaw puzzle at home. The whole process of the game is very complete. Whether art or music, it gives people a very comfortable feeling.
Relaxing music, cute illustrations and good difficulty of puzzles. I like it!