Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → Clearing space
By sevansevan
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 92 | 3.87 | 139 | |
| Fun | 65 | 3.92 | 139 | |
| Innovation | 165 | 3.48 | 139 | |
| Theme | 71 | 4.12 | 141 | |
| Graphics | 287 | 3.01 | 139 | |
| Mood | 240 | 3.10 | 136 |
I'm not the best at puzzle games so I only got to about the fourth level, with the three red flowers on the bottom. I like the concept of clearing up space to push the white objects into the flowers to make them bloom! It was also a nice touch to make the rock light up when you're able to move. A little challenging for me but you implemented the theme well!
Playing this was a great wind-down from the jam. It was a good mix of challenging and relaxing. The text displayed between levels reinforced that vibe in a really nice way. I thought the difficulty was good, some levels took me a while but as soon as I cleared the right blocks and got the solution it was very rewarding. One thing I got stuck on for a while was that I didn't know you could move the pollen (?) after you made the flower bloom. I don't even think I'd try that make that clearer, though. The less-is-more presentation works great here and once I figured that out it felt great.
I like the idea for the game and it follows the theme really well. The minimalist pixel art is really nice looking, though the instructions could be more clear.
a really nice relaxing experience, unfortunately my brain was completely fried from the jam and I got stuck on the third level but i really enjoyed the experience and it fit the theme perfectly
Lots of fun! The second-to-last took me quite some time to solve. I like how each level is two puzzles in one (make a sokoban then solve a sokoban). Works great with the theme!
Fun puzzle game, I'm going to have to come back to when I'm not so fried. I was happy when I got past the "clear 5", then it said "clear 7" and I said "nope" .... for now.
Fun game, tight loop, nice aesthetic.
this is an awesome little puzzle game, fantastic concept.
I loved that surprise happy face, that was brilliant.
What a unique idea for a sokoban game! And the code is shockingly short. Puzzlescript is the best!!
@sarah-northway I see you're a connoisseur as well.
I like how PuzzleScript expresses itself through my code: "I'll make your whole logic in two lines." "I guess I can do animations but that'll cost extra" "Why do you mean COUNTING?"
Really beautiful game! Super relaxing and smooth experience. It took me a minute or two to get comfortable with the controls but was a good experience afterwards.
Loved the game! Loved how the puzzles often misdirected me and caused me to think outside the box.
I just saw your comment on my submission "Fruit Fitting Frenzy" after playing your game! You can reach out to me on twitter at @GwenDekker or discord, `dekkaru`. Would love to talk about the games more!
I like puzzle games with a clear and easy to understand concept and yours is one of them. I got stuck at one puzzle, but I will come back later when I got some sleep.
A nice twist on the classic sokkoban formula. i thought levels would be very convoluted because the choices can explode but you designed it very well! The only level i thought i had more blocks was two levels before the smilie face where flowers and pots alternate at the top right corner. Solving those puzzles was not easy but very well designed!
Cool and very challenging puzzle game! I used to play sokkoban games when I was younger, but it didn't helped much, lol. I liked the way I had to think out of the box to be able to finish.
Good game! I passed several levels with pleasure)
Simple but very interesting. Some levels take the rest of me after the jam. Thanks for such a nice game!
Nice take on Sokoban...simple by plenty of challenge.
Very nice game, I like the minimalistic, well, everything. Art is nice, puzzles are nice (but I don't have my brain so I got stuck on the third). Good simple game!
For my mind will always be free :) Really well done puzzles, almost gave up at a point but stuck it out and was well worth it.
Nice and relaxing after sprinting thru the jam. The theme is adapted well and the art is good!
Nice job, I've these types of puzzle games in the past and I really appreciated here the sort of sandbox element you added here! great stuff :)
GOOD CREATION FOR PUSH BOX IMPROVE
Such clever design! Limited resources and so limited space. The puzzles do take some time to think over, but they are not too difficult to solve!
Great game! I wasn't able to finish it, but I really enjoyed it!
Very cool!) I was very interested in the game and its solution, great!)
Just lost half an hour of my life. I will probably lose more in the future in order to find out how many levels there are.
Excellent game! I played the whole way through and the time passed in the blink of an eye.
I liked the puzzles, the visuals, the pacing, the transitions. It made me feel really clever solving them. And this is spoken from someone who has played their fair share of puzzle games.
The only thing I wish for is more of this! And more mechanics.
This is so good! I love how the low-res pixel art makes it feel the space even more limited
Good puzzles, not over designed, stays close to the theme. Overall a solid game.
Simple yet deep, this game really showcased a brilliant idea :) The pixel art flowers were beautiful.
Very well done! Sokoban with a twist. Implementation is solid. Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to give a score?! Must be because of M.E. since it happens with all games. Hopefully that will be fixed or I find the magic button?!?! Anyway : compliments.
Nice little game. I also got stuck on the level with three flowers in a row.
Brilliant level design. Smart balance upup ovo.
Nice puzzle game! simple and fun :smile:
Nice game! Not groundbreaking new, but adding that smart twist is good :) Managed to complete them all.
Unfortunately for some reason I can't rate at all, I'll return once I can. Edit: Returned and rated
Very good game! I had a fun time with it. I didn't really get what I was supposed to do in the beginning, but quite fast figured that out.
Fun and simple. Sadly I'm not good at sokoban-like puzzles, got stuck at the level with three flowers. Also, it tok me some time to figure the rules/controls. Adding them to description would help.
Nice job, that got hard quickly though. Pacing might be a bit of an issue. Would have been good to skip/try other puzzles. Good entry :)
Nice puzzles!
I'm bad at this type of puzzles but yet it was fun to play and cute, congrats !
@haydads there is no skip button but if you click "hack" you can see all the levels and either delete/modify them or ctrl+click on a level to load it directly.
I wouldn't say it's the intended experience, but it's fun to meddle with PuzzleScript so feel free to go for it :-)
Very concise and interesting. Although it's a little difficult for me. Great job!
- Overall a nice puzzle game. - The goal was clear and the loop was engaging. - Some levels felt harder than others, maybe being able to select a level could let people adjust their mind and get inspiration for other levels they get stuck on.
A really clever puzzle game! I got as far as level 4 (I think) where I got stuck. Perhaps I need some more sleep :smile:
I really liked this, it feels like the player has more freedom than a typical puzzle game and thus feels more like designing a solution than finding the only option. Great stuff :)
Neat concept. Would've loved to play more, but the 4th level has me completely stumped.
Edit: Went back to this game and figured it out.
Cool puzzle, but I'm stuck at the 4-th level. No clue how to solve it. Maybe some in-game help/key would be helpful.
Very nice. It's a fresh take on the block pushing puzzle. I got stuck on the 4th level but otherwise enjoyed the idea very much. I just wish there were even basic sound effects.
Really a fun puzzle game. I really liked on how the small space turned into some mega pixel design, it indeed shows the really small amount of steps. I like the graphics and the goal to get the flower to the pots, it's cute. I got stuck at map 4 or so... maybe I'm just still tired of game development the whole weeked :smile:
I love puzzles and this one make my brain itch =D
Its incredibly impressive how complex the levels can get with such a straight forward mechanic!
very nice game, we find a little atmosphere of sokoban in a more limited space which works, afterwards I find the entry into the game a little crude asking what we should do since we control a cursor and not character
damn so simple and smart ! amazing job
That's a cool puzzle concept although it quickly becomes artificially hard very fast. I'll review it once the ratings are open!
That's a super cute game! Though damn did the puzzles get hard!
Very cool! Some deviously difficult puzzles; I made it up to the one with seven clears and three flowers bunched together before I called it quits. I'll probably revisit this one later once I recover from post-jam brain fog.
Very theme-fitting in several meanings of “space”. Hard (at least compared to how simple the puzzles looks like) but not too hard. Great twist on the Sokoban puzzle.
really nice puzzles! very difficult, but fun. Well done!
I like it, the level messages were intriguing, only thing I kind of wanted was to be able to switch between moving and carving space freely instead of needing to carve everything first.
I don't normally go for puzzle games but this was fun, a nice spin on the original type of box puzzle games!
Very good game. The puzzle design was my highlight with tough but beatable puzzles and clear thought put into how you would react to the layout and how to use the very simple mechanics to their max.
My only issue is with the no audio, while I understand that maybe its hard to add or you don't have experience I can 100% say that even simple sounds (rubbing cloth, hitting something) contribute a lot to the experience and how much I enjoy a game. If you want to look at making audio Audacity is a free program for mic recording and sound editing and Jonas Tyroller has a good video going over how to make some simple audio and how to use Audacity.
The only other thing I could think of is maybe displaying some congratulations screen or the player gets a golden flower each time they beat a level and it shows how many out of the total amount they got. This would let me the player know how far I am in and stave off the feeling of failure after trying the same level over and over again.
Still though very good job!
@normality thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately PuzzleScript doesn't allow importing sound.
It does have simple effects embedded but I disabled them because COMPO rules it out.
The code is there actually, you can just uncomment the SOUNDS section if you need them.
Currently trying to complete it, the screens seem to be really well thought out. Great job! Plus thank you because this game made me discover PuzzleScript which look pretty cool 🙏
Nice puzzles. They really get hard. I thought it progressed really well too.
Simple but fun!
Puzzle games make me crazy :dizzy_face: Very simple but very effective. I didn't understand at first that you could move the flower from one pot to another.
Great puzzle game. It took some time to realize what I was supposed to do and I wasn't able to finish it when the puzzles started to be 5 clearings long. Good job!
I don't have much to contribute, I think I got 5 or 6 puzzles in and enjoyed it. The flowers + pots theme is way nicer to play and look at than "warehouse worker and crates". Nice twist with adding floor space as a game mechanic!
Quite a brain teaser! I do like it when the solution was something you didn't expect at first, like the mechanic where you could push flowers between pots.
Really solid puzzle game :zap:
So much fun!!! simple, cute and challenging!!! love puzzles, the 8 bit aesthestic and the mechanics!! Great Job!!
My brain is melting
amazing puzzles! unexpected solutions
This is a really smart puzzle game. The challenging puzzles and well-designed mechanics make it an enjoyable and engaging experience.
These puzzles are tough as you progress. Overall good idea
A nice Puzzle Game.
God of Puzzles came down to save us!
I've never seen a puzzle game like this before. The machinic of erasing walls is pretty cool.
Good puzzles
Solid puzzler
Pretty fun. The level with 7 blocks to clear was way too hard compared to everything else
Nice concept and unique. Good job!
Got to level 4-5 and it was fun. Worked really well with the theme and was a unique take on it. Overall congratulations!
Neat twist on a classic game! Pretty hard!
Very cool!
Cool and tough game. It literally spend me half an hour struggling on this game and didn't beat it eventually. Very simple concept delivered in a neat way. 4.5/5
Fun game, I played through to the end (and also played the alternate versions of the last level). Just a side note, I've definitely seen people use puzzlescript sounds before in compo entries, so I think it would be fine to include them.
A fun and surprisingly challenging game!
What an awesomely simple yet fun game! I was stuck on 'clearing space' for ageesss! Nice work!
Simple but very nice! PS: What if do you limit the number of moves?
Fun game! Was very tough for me at first, but then I got the right mindset.
Nice puzzle game ! simple concept and fun ! GG
Simple, but quite challenging and interesting puzzle game!
I didn't think a revisited Sokoban would hold my attention for so long. Well done
Solid PuzzleScript game, great puzzle design
Made it until the level where you have to remove 7 tiles. The puzzles are well thought out and there is a nice progression to them. Difficulty does get devilishly difficult near the end. Great game that fits the theme well.
Fun game! Interesting puzzles, and pretty hard actually. Levels are well designed, congrats. The could have used a tad more pixels and a little bit of feedbacks.
@sevansevan FYI compo rules actually specifically allow (and even encourage) the sfxr sound generator that Puzzlescript uses, so it's fine to use them in it.
well designed puzzles liked the simple art, good job
So simple yet so good! Really nice puzzle design!
the way this introduces mechanics is great and the puzzles are all solid!
Very fun and challenging! However is lacking sound...
Well designed game. Use of puzzlescript was refreshing and very fitting.
Great level design!
I didn't uderstood at first that we can move flowers from inside the pots, but otherwise it's really a great gamde. A simple game that leaves room for consideration
I had some difficulty understanding the goal and dynamic of the puzzle, but then I had lot of fun !
May be some tutorial or display of the controls on the left and right would be cool
One of my favourite entries! It's simple yet it fits the theme and some of the levels do require thinking.
Really good puzzles! So simple, but the puzzles are so complex!
Pretty fun puzzle. Always cool too see others people take on this theme with puzzles (my game is also a puzzle with flowers haha)
:) Very fun puzzle game! I love the flowers concept. And all your puzzle designs are really great. Many of them are quite challenging to figure out! This was a lot of fun.
Really interesting new take on sokoban, very well done!
Very challenging and well-designed puzzles.
My only gripe with it is that you have to think all of your moves in advance before removing any tiles. And then just execute the solution. Usually in puzzle games when I'm stuck, I'm just fooling around messing with different objects and seeing how they work together, but here I needed a different approach.
But that's my only criticism. Otherwise, the game is perfect. Great job!
This was a lot challenging than I thought it'd be for something with so few tiles. I finished all the levels, great job on the design.
classic puzzle game with new design,love this game idea,good for this game jam so much,whild after few levels ,it get hard to solve
Nice and well designed!
This is a perfect ludum dare game tbh. Small and "limited" but it absolutely EXCELS at what it does. Great job!
Great puzzle game with box pushing mechanics. The puzzle designs are really clever, and many levels require careful thinking and multiple attempts.
Hope a feature could be added to remember the last edit and show as a dashed box, so that I can have some reference after restart a level.
Overall, it's a fantastic game! Well done!
Enjoyed playing this puzzle, I finished all levels. Nice use of theme. Relaxing music and audio would have been amazing. Good job!
Very cool game bro !
I got stuck in the second phase. Very well designed, the graphics weren't even missed. Lots of simplicity and genius. I don't know if the sounds were missed, but it always adds something.
Sokoban has never been this hard. I can only feel envy towards people who managed to complete all the levels.
I like this "hardcore" puzzle a lot. Maybe I'll try it again later to see if any solutions come to my mind.
These puzzles were way trickier than I thought they would be! I love the story the game tells with the names of the levels (and the solution for the last level draws a smiley face!)
I wish there was some sound effects, like a chunky thud when clearing a tile, or a little bonk or bloop when moving a flower. maybe a sploosh when the flower gets potted.
Great puzzles, and well done!
nice game, please give us feedback, thanks