jpat 2026-04-20 05:23
The puzzles are a lot of fun and fit the theme perfectly!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD59 → Signal Steve
By isaac-hisey and JusticeMoose
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 380 | 3.61 | 45 | |
| Fun | 323 | 3.52 | 45 | |
| Innovation | 242 | 3.67 | 45 | |
| Theme | 76 | 4.32 | 45 | |
| Graphics | 584 | 3.37 | 46 | |
| Audio | 433 | 3.24 | 45 | |
| Humor | 463 | 2.65 | 35 | |
| Mood | 638 | 3.25 | 41 |
The puzzles are a lot of fun and fit the theme perfectly!
This is actually a good edutainment title, really reinforces the understanding of the components of a wave in a fun way
Such a clever and unique idea! The concept fits the jam theme really well, and it feels fresh compared to many other entries.
Pretty cool game. I only got to level 3 or 4 before stopping, but what I saw was original and fun.
Fun puzzle game! Very chip's challenge.
@judjudson Direct inspiration! Thanks for saying so!
Clever puzzle game! I wish I realized sooner that pressing space on the doors set your goal. Very cool!
I had to pause around level 4, I'm really curious how many levels there are. I do enjoy that it's progressively getting more complicated with the back tracking. I think I'm going to leave it muted in the background until I have a chance to come back and try and complete it.
@mrtroy You're on the last one, just four. :)
Completed!!!
I really enjoyed it once I got figured out you can press space on the doors :D Love the music especially. What a creative idea!
Cool game! I thought the gameplay idea of matching the waves was very fun and engaging! One thing I found confusing at first was having to walk all the way to the exit door for the signal to change, and then walk back to the terminals. Just felt a bit tedious. Other than that great game!
Realy great project!
I liked the idea — it fits the event theme really well. But I couldn’t get past the room with the three computers. I tried a lot of different combinations :(
Thanks for the game!
This is so much fun! It got easier when I realized I could see the signal by pressing the space bar.
It is a cool idea, it is an interesting way to interpret the theme. The graphic is nice. Overall it is a solid jam game.
it took me a while to get the hang of it but after it was quiet addicting :D!!
also cute graphics i rly enjoyed it!
Fun little puzzle game feels like a modernized Chip's Challenge a bit. Great use of theme.
It's my fault for not reading the full instructions first, but it took me a while to realize I had to interact with the doors to get the matching waves so for a while I thought it was just an experimentation game.
Once I got that down the puzzles started flowing and got through it in relatively quick time.
Good level design and could be a fun concept to expand on.
Well done, team!
**STUCK?** Press space ON THE DOOR! It will show the target signal.
I don't know why, it was absolutely not intuitive to me to interact with the door. I would inspect everything else but not the door. Maybe a visual hint that there is something to look at on the door would help? Something that looks like a display with a signal drawn on it, for example.
Cause here am I, was counting and studying every detail of the placements in the rooms, trying to find a hint on what shape, amplitude and frequency the game wants from me haha
interesting concept and cute art! nice work
Fun puzzler! As others have said this is a good educational game for how waves work, and also that I think it should be stated that you can interact with doors to see the signal 'cause I also got stuck on that for a bit lol. Good job!
Really neat take on the theme and puzzle application! I also had the issue of not reading instructions first and didn't figure out how to interact with anything without reloading lol. I think a little sign or something with the interact button near a door might have saved a lot of people from that as the rest was very intuitive! The puzzles weren't too hard but were still fun to progress through!
Personally, I really enjoyed playing this game. The rhythm was really good.
I really thought the mechanic of changing the signal to open the doors was really unique and i really enjoyed the puzzle aspects of the game. Fun game thanks
Matching signals to open doors is a great idea!
I absolutely love the music, it's such a banger!
Good game and interesting idea!
It took me a second to figure out how things worked, but once I got it the gameplay was fun trying to figure out how to match the signals.
Once I figured it out, it was fun for a bit. But then the constant backtracking started to interfere with the joy of solving the puzzles.
If you got the time between the player understanding the puzzle to them being able to complete it down, I really think you'd have a banger of a game.
Pretty fun and interesting submission. The puzzles seem unique and entertaining, although it feels like most of them kind of solve themself :)
At the last door sequence I expected to have to go all the way back to get to the right terminal and fix the signal, but was relieved to find that wasn't the case haha
it's an interesting concept! the puzzles are great, I had fun playing this game! art and sound are also very climatic
The puzzles were easy to follow and provided a bit of challenge, Would have been good to provide controls I was walking around the tutorial room thinking the signal would trigger by walking.
I like your puzzle ideas. With even more mechanics there is plenty room for more fancy riddles. :)
I think it would be a good idea to put the tipps/hints of your game on your game-page here on Ludum Dare too (especially that you can interact with the door). Otherwise there is a lot of text to read.
Very interesting game and the theme is absolutely visible.
A cool puzzle game. The 8-bit style is executed really well. I only felt it could have used a bit more dynamics, but overall it’s a great game.
Interesting puzzle game! Maybe there was a little too much of walking around needed. At the third level, I noticed the green and red lights above the signal. In the fourth level I got a bit bored by the puzzles and all the walking around. But I pushed through and found the end of the game. :smile:
Nice clean graphics, a happy Steve in a gray environment. ;) I like the beat of the music, but the other noises are a bit repetitive and harsh, but they fit to the computer/signal theme. :wink:
Very clever game idea! :clap:
Beautiful, challenging puzzle! Feels like a classic logic game from the old days
Ha! I completed all 4 levels! Nice puzzle game!
I got stuck at the first level, in the last part (I panicked and refreshed the page), but after that it went smoothly! Graphics are good, same for the audio. Great job!
Nice work, aligns with the theme :)
Nice game!
@lllarso Good idea! I added to the description: "If you feel a bit stuck in the first room, activate the door, it’ll show you the way!"
I always feel uneasy about making any changes as I feel the game should be in whatever state it was in when things were "pencils down" so to speak. Like once its submitted, that's it; that's the game.
Editing the description seems fair though :)
Just finished the whole thing! Those were some solid puzzles, I loved it. The puzzles were great, only last and next to last puzzles felt like the difficulty was a bit revered (as in I found last one easier), but it might be also that I got used to the game mechanics. Speaking of, they were super intuitive in my opinion and I was able to figure out really fast how it worked and what game expected of me. Which also says a lot how well the whole thing is design. I was also pleasantly surprised with the amount of level, and that they didn't felt same-y. My only two kind of complains would be: I would prefer for the character to move just a little faster, since there is a bit of walking back and forth and music being kind of repetitive. That's it. Awesome job with the game.
Took me far too long to realize the doors were matching specific things it was telling me and I didn't have to match perfectly or just guess and it worked sometimes... but a lot of that's probably on me. :sweat_smile: Puzzles got pretty good! Difficulty curve felt maybe a little uneven in the middle - not sure how much of that was me just getting better, of course - but definitely still some good puzzles toward the end. Movement did feel just a little slow for some of the larger puzzles. Really liked how the sound effects fit the signal changes!
very cool puzzle