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Out of Chalk

By justcore

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2083.7531
Fun1813.6931
Innovation3733.2731
Theme4053.6531
Graphics1534.2031
Audio634.0830
Humor2.429
Mood384.3231

Comments

dmitriyci 2025-10-07 15:11

A very good game! It features impressive visuals and appropriate background music.

gyzra 2025-10-07 21:06

I love these kinds of puzzle games. The combination of strategic object movements with the matching enemy pathing adds a level of challenge and planning that is really fun. The visuals are sleek and the sound design is atmospheric without being distracting. Love it!

robert18 2025-10-07 21:07

Amazing graphics and atmosphere, love the addition of the story beside the gameplay

maytch 2025-10-07 21:15

Cool intro, story and atmosphere to it! It's a little too dark for my screen, I couldn't always tell where the holes were

faust-mi 2025-10-07 21:24

A huge plus for the ambient sounds! A special plus for the tutorial! The puzzle level was interesting to solve and not too difficult!

It's was funny! =)

Good job! Thanks for the gaming experience!

raysplaceinspace 2025-10-07 21:30

Clever little puzzle game! I like the way the world steps with you.

michlau 2025-10-07 22:26

i really love the premise but im so bad at puzzles, i got stuck in 3rd lvl... but i think puzzle lovers will appreciate this one! what i can say is that the atmosphere and visuals are great, and u did an awesome job!! congrats!!

flinge 2025-10-08 08:24

I’m not usually a fan of this kind of game, but this one was simple and comfortable to play. I got a bit stuck on the last level, though. The narrative and atmosphere were absolutely amazing — such an incredible vibe, I really loved it!

placeholders 2025-10-09 18:35

that ending :crying_cat_face: this game is a good reminder of how narrative and atmosphere can hold the experice. loved it, the art and puzzle design was great!

t90 2025-10-09 19:05

Extremely cool game, with lovely puzzles and incredible atmosphere! Although a bit too dark for my liking (literally. I couldn't see a thing sometimes and basically stumbled in the dark until found a way).

Loved that you can lock enemies in place strategically with spikes.

eugenik 2025-10-09 19:40

Very good mood, love the atmosphere and clever gameplay.

justcore 2025-10-09 21:13

Thank you, everybody, for playing and leaving your feedback, I really appreciate this!! :D

justcore 2025-10-09 21:33

@t90 About the darkness, I've actually received quite a few comments mentioning this problem (not only here), so I plan to add a brightness slider at the start, like most dark games do.

(should've added it from the start :sweat_smile:)

rogaven 2025-10-10 20:26

Cool game. Yep, to have a brightness slider will be great

hnkxobka 2025-10-12 15:20

cool game! sokoban is my love👍

mr-mesmer 2025-10-12 16:17

Загадки сокобана прикольные, правление приятное, но вот вся эта история - не зашла совсем. По мне, продажа души за ништяки - настолько избитое клише, что ну не очень интересно. И из-за того, что главного героя мы не знаем, не сочувствуешь ему

scrapmetal 2025-10-12 16:20

The atmosphere, art, color palette, audio and mood are all sooooo good!! Wow. So much polish to the movement and everything.

The puzzles are really well done. The difficult ramps dramatically though :grimacing: :sweat_smile:

I was able to finally do it, but had such trouble with the 3rd one I think? Then gave up on the next. :grimacing:

The puzzles might be TOO good. My brain is tired now.

oller125 2025-10-13 20:19

Loved the atmosphere and sound. And I liked the twist on the standard sokoban by including moving enemies.

roroto-sic 2025-10-13 20:57

Great game !! atmosphere is well made with good story and imersiv audio ! The puzzles are fun, the world is entertaining ! Capture d’écran 2025-10-13 225424.png

cameronpenner 2025-10-14 03:15

Wow, really well done! All around, every aspect of the game was pretty tidy, graphics, audio, story, puzzles, everything felt cohiesive and deliberate. I really enjoyed the pacing as well. The puzzles were just tricky enough for me to have to get creative, but not so hard or monotonous that I got annoyed with them. The story was great, I love a jam with an actual ending, and this one delivered. Really good touch with the brightness slider too, for a game that is grounded in darkness, that is a really important accessibility option most teams (never mind solo devs wow) would not have had time for.

Big kudos, this was a great experience. Thank you for making this!

catusfelony 2025-10-14 03:21

Now I'm wondering if there are multiple endings.... That was a fine entry! Lots of fun. :)

dock-frankenstein 2025-10-15 12:07

Really good use of the sound effects. Even though there is a lot of silence, the rest makes it feel like it's a part of the game

zidan-banan 2025-10-24 22:04

The atmosphere is awesome! I also liked the story and ending! It feels great to play.

The gameplay was a bit lacking. The puzzles are simple. The Sokoban field is scorched by Steven's sausage, Patrick's paradox, and so on. We're waiting for more Sokoban from Jonathan Blow. Therefore, the requirements for Sokoban are very high, although interesting ideas are still emerging. The creator of Baba from You had a series of short Sokoban games - https://itch.io/c/4014684/tiny-block-pushers

I love puzzles in general, and I'm happy with any puzzle game, so thank you. There are very few puzzles out there, especially good ones. Here's a good article on how to make puzzles with interactive examples based on Sokoban - https://auroriax.com/puzzle-explorable/

justcore 2025-10-24 23:47

@zidan-banan Thanks for the useful links! Yeah, I admit the gameplay in this one wasn't very strong. Still, I really appreciate the thoughtful feedback and the resources you shared. They'll definitely help me improve next time :D