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The Ballet

By sevansevan

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1263.6423
Fun953.6923
Innovation853.7323
Theme2073.4723
Graphics2263.1923
Audio1763.1623
Humor1253.1722
Mood1943.2321

Comments

alanbrook 2024-04-15 03:56

Nice looking and playing game. I will need to come back to it, as I found it hard to develop a strategy for how to shape my actors, even after a handful of levels

rakowu 2024-04-15 08:57

Nice idea. I was briefly confused at the end as to whether the game was over or not. In the end I tried to throw the player into the hole and it seemed to be the right decision? :D It was really fun and a tough nut to crack before the last level.

online-play 2024-04-16 20:44

This game is so cool but also really hard at the same time. Anyway good job.

james-greenleaf 2024-04-16 20:46

Interesting concept. Wasn't sure what to do at first, but then I got the hang of it. Pretty tricky puzzle game!

sevansevan 2024-04-16 20:46

@online-play yeah sorry I kinda come from the hardcore puzzle niche :-( ^^'

stmate03 2024-04-16 20:51

A fun little game with a fun little mechanic, I had fun playing through the levels even if I didn't get very far sadly, my brain was not doing the thinking when I played it

koolruz 2024-04-16 20:52

This was a really cool sokoban variant! At first, I was breezing through the levels, until I got utterly stuck here - I spent a good ten minutes or so, and could not crack that nut. Very engaging, though! :)

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asatrain 2024-04-16 20:55

Very nice puzzle concept. I would suggest to also somehow complicate the layout of location from level to level.

zeminyok 2024-04-16 20:56

Simple but elegant puzzle! Oh and it gets difficult.

Concept and mechanics are so well knitted together here, ballets literally are dancing around while you are trying to solve the puzzle. I laughed a lot when I was trying to understand the game by randomly moving around and saw the message saying that's not the script. Well thought and smooth on-boarding.

niterich 2024-04-16 20:57

Very clever idea! I'm not good a puzzle games so I couldn't make it very far, but from what I saw this was a very clever take on the theme!

henk 2024-04-16 21:53

What a clever game idea! I like how far you were able to get while using the same shape for all of the levels. The "encore" caught me off-guard, but I managed to make it to the end.

maggardjosh 2024-04-16 21:58

Good puzzle mechanic, sadly I was not able to get very far. Will have to come back to it later and try again. Great work!

kirass 2024-04-16 23:14

You are really great! The game turned out great!

co5monaut 2024-04-18 18:33

That's great! I really like the graphics and sounds, it's in my heart ahahh I played mesmerized for a while, but unfortunately I couldn't make it to the end, unfortunately I'm bad at puzzles aha. I was always bothered by the question, where do the dancers go when they fall into the black pit?

sevansevan 2024-04-18 20:24

@co5monaut backstage / in hell. Choose one. Sorry for the difficulty 3:-) you might have missed the final animation(s) then :-O

nadia-pixel 2024-04-18 21:34

wow it actually took me some time to get the idea. So maybe add something else beside funny inscription? son't get me wrong the inscription is funny, but just doesn't give all the information a player needs. but overall it is a great puzzle. Congrats!

sevansevan 2024-04-19 09:47

@nadia-pixel thanks for the feedback! I'm eternally torn apart between clear instructions and leaving some discovery for the player. Curious what others would think too :-)

woona 2024-04-19 17:16

Great puzzles! The game reminded me of crypt of the necrodancer boss fight, but a lot trickier.

I really like minimalistic graphics and audio design. It fits pure puzzle genre well and allows you to design a lot of challenging puzzles. I went through all of them, including encore. I think the difficulty is just right: puzzles are tricky, but solvable and I'm sure there are different approaches to all of them.

I think everything fell right into place in this game. Great job!

harmadillo 2024-04-20 18:11

Nice puzzle game. The minimalist style looks good and the levels could be quite challenging.