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Charge Carriers

By st00nsa, zombiewalrus, Tapot and yura_grustny

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall7073.3730
Fun7543.1630
Innovation3773.5030
Theme6763.5128
Graphics7013.4130
Audio4493.3028
Humor5643.0027
Mood8233.1730

Comments

grundi 2024-10-08 12:36

I like the Nine Inch Nails references

hangovergames 2024-10-08 12:39

Wow, very rare and unique lemmings-inspired game, well done!

julester 2024-10-08 12:39

nice puzzle game that is easy to understand. only when i pressed restart it would not spawn the little guys anymore (only fix was to restart the game)

quasilyte 2024-10-08 12:43

Playing this game feels like you're breaking it, cheesing it. :D I finished most of the levels in this zerg storm kind of way: Screenshot_2024-10-08_16-36-26.png Screenshot_2024-10-08_16-40-21.png

Which makes me curious what the intended solutions are. After beating the level, revealing the optimal/planned solution would be a good touch in my opinion. This way, the player can learn even if they managed to beat the level (on accident).

P.S. - looking at the GIF in the description, I can clearly see that my solution is incorrect, but it did manage to complete the level. It didn't ruin the fun for me (in fact, I may enjoy that in a puzzle-ish game), but it might now be what you intended the game to be.

I like that there is no punishment for doing bad moves. It's probably the reason why I had a chance to figure how to play it. :D

The game wouldn't run on Firefox, but it was running well on Chrome. If someone else has issues running it on Firefox, try other browser (e.g. Chrome).

zombiewalrus 2024-10-08 12:51

Thank you for your feedback!

@grundi, yeah, try to guess two other bands in references :)

@julester, we'll fix it in a post-jam version, thank you for your comment, will add this info to game description.

@quasilyte, interesting idea about showing solution, actually we intentionally made puzzles easier, so most of them could be solved in 2-3 ways at least, including the one with flooding the level with carriers. But maybe we can add stars or something like that based on the amount of carriers used to solve the problem in post-jam version, so there will be more motivation to look for more efficient solutions. Shame about Firefox, will add this information to description too.

sig00d 2024-10-08 12:58

Интересно, но я застрелена третьем уровне и, иногда, при рестарте игры, боты перестают спавниться

zombiewalrus 2024-10-08 13:18

@sig00d, спасибо! С респавном да, есть проблема, мы после голосования выложим версию, где поправим этот баг, пока только перезагрузка страницы поможет, к сожалению. С третьим уровнем можно решить как, например, на скрине выше в комментах у quasilyte.

zombiewalrus 2024-10-08 14:29

@julester, @quasilyte, @sig00d, just uploaded fix for carrier's respawn + game should work fine now in firefox

quasilyte 2024-10-08 14:36

@zombiewalrus thank you for the fix. :D I can confirm that your fix is working.

Firefox is my default browser, but I do have a Chromium ready for action just in case as some web apps defy the existence of any other browsers except Chrome. :D

gdman 2024-10-09 12:40

Очень веселая игра в духе леммингов. Первые уровни было забавно проходить брутфорсом, несмотря на то, что они старались убежать налево. Думаю что я немного сжульничал, набрав ведерко квантов, а потом подключил параллельно портал - ведь это не постоянный, а только пиковый поток. Немного неудобно было, что нельзя двигать занятый лифт и коробку, приходилось перерисовывать уровень с начала. Игра понравилась, одновременно и легкая и сложная. brak.png quant.png

deantwotwo 2024-10-09 18:15

Seems like a really cool game, but its a bit buggy, i never know if im breaking something or if its as designed!

andreia 2024-10-09 19:56

Ohhhh very challenging and fun! Feels fun to try and figure out how to solve the puzzle even if sometimes feels you are doing something that is breaking the rules :p Great work!

ditam 2024-10-14 07:09

I especially liked the music on this one, it worked great with the rhythm of the levels and the sound effects. Great vibes!

The gameplay was a bit finnicky. Once things started moving, it was very hard to interact with the blocks or move them. And I agree with some comments here, the infinite creatures really lend themselves to cheesy "let's wait for them to fill up the space and it will work eventually" strategies :)

dianavi 2024-10-14 10:23

Wow, I love this type of game! It's so impressive that you made this during a jam, well done. You should continue to develop the game after the jam.

olsonexi 2024-10-15 23:44

Interesting idea. Pretty fun, but it's not really clear how to tell which way they're gonna go, to the point that it almost feels a bit buggy and random at times. The 3rd level is pretty much impossible.

zombiewalrus 2024-10-16 11:08

@gdman спасибо! Про лифт и коробку, поправим после окончания голосования, думали сделать так, что носители заряда просто сбрасываются из них при перемещении.

@deantwotwo thank you for your feedback! We want to continue to work on this game after voting period, it will help us a lot if you can describe what exactly felt buggy in this game, maybe specific level or elements.

@andreia thank you!

@ditam thank you, kudos to our composer! Yeah, we intentionally left the possibility to flood the level with carriers, plan to improve that in post-jam version.

@dianavi thanks, yes, we plan to continue to work on this game!

@olsonexi thank you for your feedback, will try to solve these issues in post-jam version.

bloodbane 2024-10-17 09:32

Confusing puzzle game. I think there should be better explanation on what's happening here. I brute forced stage 3 and got stuck on stage 4. If the dialogues below were replaced by hints, it would be better.

zombiewalrus 2024-10-17 16:30

@bloodbane, sorry to hear that, will think about hints in postjam version, thanks!

itskdog 2024-10-20 13:45

This reminded me of Lemmings. Like the idea. I could see you making more levels for this game.

multiplexor 2024-10-20 13:54

Very nice!

I think the levels are very creative and overall very entertaining, also the cubes felt quite easy to understand even by just looking at them

You also have multiple ways of solving the puzzles, which i really like

Keep up the great work!

pimeko 2024-10-21 19:17

Hahaha loved these tiny robots spawning endlessly! Pretty original concept

pimping 2024-10-23 21:52

Great game, nice matching with theme, keep going