Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD60 → The Tester

The Tester

By curtis-pelissier, zeias, thaunter, darynopi, bluesmm and ozakan

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Fun21
Innovation21
Theme21
Graphics21
Audio20
Mood21

Comments

zazios 2026-10-19 22:31 ♥ 1

A very neat prototype with some good ideas behind it. Well done!

septah 2026-10-20 16:20 ♥ 0

i think the difficulty curve could be better, and less trial and error (the laser puzzle where the button was in the last room)

mineaj 2026-10-20 16:28 ♥ 0

Very cool! Fun puzzles! :) The button just seems to be a bit sensitive of how and where the box is placed which made the gameplay feel a bit finnicky at times but otherwise good stuff! I also enjoyed the beginning music

rachie 2026-10-20 17:37 ♥ 0

The music and visuals go together perfectly, and the 3D effects look great too! If you’re looking for some games to rate, feel free to check out my profile.

teroflups 2026-10-20 18:30 ♥ 0

The game hooked me in some way it’s a fun puzzle game but there’s a really annoying bug or perhaps a design choice where I can’t rotate the camera a full 360 degrees. Also, it’s not entirely clear how the theme of "old technology" was explored.

mackain 2026-10-20 19:38 ♥ 0

this is my favorite type of jam game! intuitive gameplay, amazing graphics, great vibes. my one and only nitpick is that i struggled with figuring out how to swap weapons and that brought me out of my zen mode but other than that 10/10!

tosmaster 2026-10-20 20:21 ♥ 0

The music and visuals are awesome!! It felt really trippy stepping out of that first room and seeing the "outside"! I love the physics glove the most! Pure hl2 vibes!

comprock15 2026-10-21 01:35 ♥ 0

Some game mechanics (the glove and the checkpoint system) felt a bit unintuitive for me. I think adding some visual hints would be great. That said, I really liked the sound design and the visuals, especially the 1st location theme! Your game reminded me of Portal in a good way

antyouxou 2026-10-21 10:40 ♥ 0

I had so much fun playing your game!! I managed to get into the little spot with the purple light in the room with the giant box, but couldn't find anything here however.. For the last room, I didn't understand at first what the black smoking cube was for, and so I tried several time to shoot the respawn element in the air, jump quickly into the void, and try to shoot again the respawn element when falling down from the sky when I respawned...

labicorne 2026-10-21 13:29 ♥ 0

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Really cool mechanic! I had a great time playing this game!

I just ran into a small bug with unloading the crates, but it's no big deal—the game is still super fun to play!

remink 2026-10-21 21:58 ♥ 0

Really good game, well polished ! The mechanics are satisfying, and I liked the last glove puzzle, it makes you think outside the box !

lucasito 2026-10-23 13:54 ♥ 0

Very very good. There are lots of very tricky mechanics, it's very interesting and you put a lot of efforts into making this 3D have its own look and atmosphere and I love it! The controls are a bit weird so I would have put a bit more spawn points, but it's only a small flaw compared to anything that is good in this game. Congrats!

curtis-pelissier 2026-10-23 22:03 ♥ 0

@teroflups it seems like a bug from the WebGL export. Have you tried the windows one?

harujam 2026-10-24 16:43 ♥ 1

Very nice 3D puzzle game! Here's some feedback:

+ Very atmospheric, nice mood + Loads of content for a jam game

- Placing cubes on top of sensors was a bit tricky. (I got feeling the sensor did not register although the cube was place on it) - It was not immediately clear how to swap gadgets

vary 2026-10-24 16:44 ♥ 1

neat take on a portal-like game! the visuals and audio work together well, and the puzzles have a good amount of challenge to them. I found the box/button hitbox to be a little picky so it felt needlessly difficult to place those sometimes. overall nice job!

curtis-pelissier 2026-10-24 17:17 ♥ 0

@labicorne which game did you post in your comment? It's not ours 😅

hammy275 2026-10-24 19:24 ♥ 0

Very interesting puzzle game! I appreciate a lot how slowly puzzle elements were introduced and taught to the player for the first half of the game, and the retro aesthetics and music are great!

I think the later puzzles (last puzzle in the second area and the third area as-a-whole) need a first-time-player pass, like how the game before it was seemingly designed.

Spoilers for the second area:

!> The last room in the second area seemed impossible without going back to the previous area and grabbing a third laser redirector, though I'm not even sure if that's the intended solution. I'm not sure how to improve this, honestly.

Spoilers for the third area:

!> The third area had me entirely lost until I saw someone in the comments call the thing I was carrying a "respawn element." I had initially thrown it to the other side, then thought I triggered some invisible checkpoint games have where they respawn you on the nearest platform to cross the initial gap. From there, I jumped around the wall that you were supposed to insert the respawn element through before getting totally stuck at the very tall wall after you're supposed to throw the element over (which missing that and missing the grab means a very annoying restarting from the start). I think some sort of effect to show the respawn anchor is the thing causing the respawn here would go a long way.

Overall, this is a neat puzzle game with a great foundation and an overall fun experience that I think is missing a first-time-player pass to make it really shine. Thank you for submitting this game!

baziki 2026-10-24 20:02 ♥ 0

After five minutes of trying, I did not know what to do with the smoking black cube and did not want to use *all* the hints, so I just opened the first one. Then I thought "maybe closing the game mid-run is how you corrupt it?" So I did... that was a mistake. Unfortunately I just don't have the time to go through again, but I think I did most of the game before I closed it.

I really like the look of the game! It feels a bit like being inside a computer, which seems like the intention. The music and sound effects were also good, though it stopped looping in the second section of the game (which was unfortunate 🙁) but fixed itself in the third.

!> I think perhaps some of the features could have been somewhat better explained. It took me a minute to figure out that the memory card was a respawn point, and I never figured out the smoking black cube. But for the most part, things were well presented.

!> Also, I did manage to access the secret(?) room using the giant cube, but I couldn't find anything in there :(

Overall, nice work! Good vibes from this entry.

andriybyelikov 2026-10-25 03:20 ♥ 0

~~Got stuck in the room where you need both the laser gun and the gloves but didn't have the laser gun anymore.~~ Missed the weapons switch button in the instructions, my bad.

Got stuck on being unable to get to the smoking cube.

logovostudio 2026-10-25 07:17 ♥ 0

A very cool puzzle game, I really liked the mechanics with a memory card, even if I did not immediately understand how it works. The game has the coolest atmosphere, brings back memories of the portal. Well done developers,

blake-mullin 2026-10-26 21:47 ♥ 0

Some cool ideas here, love the take on the "old tech" and the colorful visuals. I would love to see 10 more rooms to see what kind of creativity might emerge from the puzzles, love the portal-style room-based puzzle solving and would be excited to see how far you can push this one. At the moment I had a few frustrations not "getting" what the puzzle was supposed to be, and had to get saved by the comments. I like the concepts but feels it's missing the "it-factor" that great puzzle games have where the solutions feel like their own reward. I found the solutions and mechanics to be quite simple and the game was really just figuring out what the tools are doing. I enjoy the concept of the final puzzle now that I know what the idea there was from the hints, what would elevate this game is to find a way to reveal these answers through the gameplay before the technique is needed. Great game!

aweskybear 2026-10-26 21:57 ♥ 0

Your entry, guys, simply mesmerized me! : ))

Beautiful music, amazing atmosphere and neon-like vibes and *clear* puzzle mechanic that hooks the player! Bravo!