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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
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| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | shape, LeSS | jam | 737 | 3.03 | 2.65 | 2.62 | 3.43 | 4.07 | 2.33 | 2.54 | 3.34 | 100 |
Wonderful, new gameplay, very funny and wonderful graphics. The game was very buggy for me though, made the second level impossible to play. Would love to see its fixed version, this game certainly has great potential.
It takes so much time to get every ring but it is really fun and love all the different shapes in the game :) Well done guys!
Quite exciting when it starts! But I wish there were more indicators when to push end turn, because it took me for a while to understand I was not the one that choosing where the tanks choose to go, so I thought that it was not working properly. Also, really slow on the camera movement.
Good job on the game, it was fun for me, but could not see the enemy's well with the current backgroundof the game.
I have a lot of comments after playing this game. I hope these are helpful to you. First of all, let me say that I think you set the mood of this mystery quite well with the music and color scheme. However, due to a lot of problems with game mechanics, and decisions, the game is far from playable, or enjoyable. Looking around the room, I am able to interact with almost everything from where I stand, this cuts my enthusiasm to move around the room and explore. The waiting time when examining objects is annoying and pointless, could have been much better if things were clickable? Or maybe we are just tied to the chair in the beginning so we actually cannot move and that's why we are examining everything by just hovering over them? That would make much more sense with the current mechanics. This for me is a poor game design decision. Assuming that you are able examine an object, the text that appears is too fast, does not stop animating, starts over and over again, and has a very elaborate hard to read font. I was not able to read most of the text you prepared because of that. I do not also understand the randomness of the text box behavior. While this text animation keeps on happening, no idea how to get out of that window and move on. With all these in mind, the look and feel of the game is still very promising. Therefore, I wish there was the graphics category when voting for this game. Even though you pulled the models from the internet, I still think the paintings are of good quality. I think there's a lot of potential here, that's why I wanted to write a detailed feedback for you. Hope this is helpful for all of you.
Also, the Web link is a download link,so it is a bit misleading for everybody who wants to play it.
Very fun concept. I would love to play more if you end up developing this game further :)
Love the humor, and appreciate the effort to put this all together! I wish driving mechanics would work much better then it is but it was very funny afterall
I love the narrative! Cute paint graphics tops the fun. Wasn't fond of the mechanics, but there is still potential for this game to be much more fun.
I could not see the ghost face at first since the resolution was so low but overall it is an innovative idea!
Really addictive gameplay and cute characters! I love how you Would love to play this with a more zoomed camera :) Amazing work!
This game is so good! I love how the old mechanics work with a new type of gameplay!
The graphics are really intriguing and cute. The gameplay is quite dizzying, though, very hard to keep on playing.
I am speechless... Thank you for making this game.
Nice take on the theme. I wish there was no permadeath though...
I laughed a lot at the audio for the jump, in a good way :D
This seems so nice, and achieving this in compo is so good! But not fun to explore when alone.
It would be much more interesting game if there is some graphics other than rectangles, but still appreciate the effort of building an inventory system. I wish there was more of a variety of costs across the purchase items. I also think it would help if there was a way to know how far down we can go when venturing, before we fall to game over.
It is definitely an innovative idea, but it was not fun with the current game mechanics.
Fun little platformer! Especially love the erratic running of the chick :)
Very funny game! I loved the animations, good work! I wish there was some sounds as well, also make sure to opt out the Audio from your ratings if you are not planning to put some.
Nice! Reminds me of an old nokia game that I used to play very often :)
I really like your take on shapeshift challange! The typewriter animation of the words really annoys when the text is too long, though. Also, hotspots can be bigger, really hard to pick the spots. Overall, nice graphics and mood!
I like the flexibility of using the second hand as a distraction, or actually play with 2-players (which we did and it was quite fun)! Really nice entry!
Overall, very innovative game that is also easy on the eyes :) Hard to figure out how the game works. More specific instructions would be helpful (it's mainly a tapping or fast-clicking game). Once I figured it out, it was quite fun.
Very tiring but fun(ny) game. I was able to go on tournaments past 52 weeks :)
I like the game overall, it is nice to make the series of choices. Just wish in the end, there was some sense of how successful I was in paying off my student loans :)
Well that escalated quickly... Right after a nice tutorial, there was infinite amount of enemies, that I was not able to even walk! :D Good game though! Especially love the art style :)
gave me an download error, maybe also include webgl?
I love the mood of panic you've created! I kept putting my head into the toilet! But very sweet ending indeed :) Really funny art style! Ellerinize sağlık!
The story was captivating and you guys set the mood very well. Good entry!
Really funny ending screen! I loved this game, I have no criticism about the choices you have made to finish it, other than not being able to sword attack in all directions. Well done!
This is actually quite fun! Good pace in increasing difficult as the game progresses. I also liked the option to pick the goals in each level. Not too fond of the sounds but other than that, loved it!
Really nice graphics but very hard game! Overall you did a good job.
Really innovative concept. However, really bad camera and permadeath annoys after some tries.. based on the graphics, I was really looking forward to play this game, but I could not get past after the first big leap. I would love to give it another go, if the camera issues are fixed and some checkpoints are added.
Hard to learn the game at first levels but then really got used to it and loved to play it! Really nice use of the theme, well done!
Excellent game! This is seriously the first entry that I could not get enough of! Although I'm stuck at 4th level, since it gets pretty tricky, I will keep playing to beat the game! Would love it if it was on Android! Cool!
Interesting concept!
Nice puzzle game
Interesting approach to the theme..
Really innovative idea. However: I understand that the challenge is to kill the bad guy without killing too many civilians, but I thought the gun we had at hand was way too messy. Especially considering that the bad guy needs a few shots to actually die. But still solid entry for a compo!
Loved how you worked the theme into this mystery story. Very fun to play too. Great entry!
Hard to get what was Mo'o at first but then found out what it was :) Very innovative and to the point for the theme!
Nice idea to use the lemmings inspiration for the theme.
Nice looking and really innovative game! The only criticism I have is that once a word is ready, I shouldn't have to drag it to the right voter like a food prepared in a cooking game. The politician is already speaking, and it would help greatly with the pace of the game.
Quality pixel art and great aesthetics! I was stuck at the end of the level where the box with heart drawn on it, because I forgot to drop it. :D
Really innovative idea, but some levels are hard to solve..
I love the mechanics you've put in place in such a time-frame. I felt the transformation was a bit too random, but I guess that's part of the exploration in this game. Good job overall.
Really nice entry! I love the mouth shape, and how you can shift it with the slider. Overall, great achievement in 2 days!
Hard to close the game once you get the hang of it. It is very fun, well done!
Well I think this is an interesting start, would love to rate if/when it is available to vote.
Very innovative and fun idea! It was also quite fun to play, and really cute graphics, lthough at times it was quite challenging to see the hover over text when characters are next to each other! Also the colliders for click on characters to shapeshift are a bit off. Good job overall!
Did not really get the idea, and also it would be much more playable if you fix the lighting a little.
really cool idea and mechanics! I especially liked the lights and the mood, want more levels :)
I love silly games! Great entry! :D
A game with multiple endings! Really liked different outcomes, especially **SPOILER ALERT** baked one :D
I loved your graphics, and the character creation looks solid! Finding one of our kind was pretty sweet, but killing other creatures was not clear enough for me to understand thought.
This is so good! Loved it! Genius! Graphics and mood can improve, but brilliant job overall:)
I love your art and music!
I like the idea of being able to play the game as a co-op.. Other than that, the gameplay was a bit weird. It is really weird that the enemies spawn at the same place as a line. They do not really attack.. And sometimes for some reason, I was able to fly out of the game map.
I really like the idea of this game. Once it became night, it got really hard to see though.
Wow! This is actually a complete game which is so fun to play! Everything is awesome, I already played so many times :) great job!
Even though I really like the theme concept of this game, there are a lot of issues with it, and wanted to point it out in case these would be helpful. The camera and the collisions in this game are pretty bad. Not helping with the gameplay that is already quite tedious. I don't understand why after we transform, the same type enemies are still attacking us. And why are there so many enemies around when the game is more of a puzzle? And even I kill them they respawn again? Overall very confusing game for me..
Gorgeous game! I also like some of the concepts that you have not yet to be include in the jam version,like the idea of villagers who are corrupted. But I am glad you did not finish some of the ideas,like including bow and arrows in this. I think that can ruin the game's peaceful mood, and killing can change the game completely.
Funny use of the theme!
Very interesting concept and mechanics. I was able to unlock one of the endings in a short time by using the first 4 of the shapes. I just thought having a guide to what the shapes actually mean could help with the exploration. I did not understand about the water, as it goes down with every click, but then goes back up? Great music by the way!
Graphics are OK but the game is no fun, I was not able to beat any butterflies yet did not understand why we are shooting at them either.
Cute drawings! But when I lost once in the web version, I cannot restart the game. Also, I think it would be better if the UI for the night time gameplay for balancing was more intuitive or with more explanations. I found the two independent bars too confusing, and did not understand what to do. Also, permadeath did not really help.
Nice hand-drawn art style. Not sure what we are shape-shifting into and why. Are we also stone as well? A back story and some music would definitely help a lot! :)
Nice mobile game to kill time :)
Such a fun game and great combination of the theme and game mechanics! This will be my new stress-relief game :) My only suggestion would be to make the characters distinguishable, maybe even different tongue colors? As it is not easy to tell them apart when the fight gets really heated :)
Graphics are cool, but no game yet! The first thing you could consider doing is letting the player know what the red squares are, and what is the number on the top left corner, counting down. I could not figure out if I was collecting the squares or if they were damaging me at first. Also, the web player on this page did not work for me, it gave a server error.
I am not sure if the game is working properly, right click and left click does not work for me as described... And my shape automatically speeds up when I collide one of the enemies..
This could still be fun if the controllers were working properly. But even esc did not work for creating a new track for me..
Realistic hell experience, with all the endless waiting :) Really though, could the pace of the cross turning be a little faster? Or maybe it is my laptop? But still, really nice graphics and mood!
This game really has unique setting. Really lacks a balance of challenge though. Would improved if the collision of the coins would be wider. I also found the speed of the movement a little slow. Overall, nice entry!
You really set the mood very well! Very interesting graphics, love the colors, and the audio is really good. It creates this feeling that you are inside a creature or something like that, like an embryo ^^ Would be nice if there are some tutorial how to play, or even a walk-through video. Overall, good job! Next time, compo! We both can do it next time ;)
Short and really nice game, would be much better if shapeshifting could vary in terms of just block to triangle. Right now, everything feels like it is average, but normally the game has a better potential than what it is right now. Overall, great achievement!
Really cute game and graphics but there was no point in the end, as there's no sense of achievement.
This is wonderfully done, bravo. I loved the graphics & audio, and game mechanics are fun!
Vaguely reminds me of vintage beat-em-up games. Needs improvements on animations and some variety in enemies and shapeshifting.
That was certainly a new and different experience :) I was hoping that my monster would try to walk around after I created it! xD
Wonderfully creative idea! I love the funny shapes of bleeps. Well done!
Cool idea and it was fun. However at some point the camera turned too much and the game got stuck as I could not roll anymore to counter-balance the table.
Thought the puzzle mechanic has a lot of potential. There was a bug in level 4 I guess (when we first meet the yellow narrow block), where I go to the destination but it did not register. And then I went out of the collision, and could not get in again. I hope this helps for your fixings, would love to play again when you fix!
A game with really cute graphics and audio. Also loved how it really works well with the controls. The only feedback that I can give is to make the drop to the floor that we are on, instead of in front of the duck. I would love to play it more! :)
The main thing I like about the game is the artwork. I could not really play it due to its laggy movement.
Really nice graphics and love the house design, I wish it can be more playable, right click did not worked for me in Firefox!
I really loved the idea of inventory being our shapeshifting options :) The game ended abruptly for me when I was able to steal the diamond early on, but overall, really cute and fun game!
A weird but interesting game. It is so weird, I want to keep on playing, but got stuck in the scene where the dude is in the prison and I could not figure out how to press the red button.
Sometimes I was able to use the same line in a row and score points, but great game! Overall solid entry!
Really unique graphics and sense of achievement! Really nice symbols too, it was fun to draw them for me. But, I still agree with most of the comments here, that to make shapes vary each time so the game does not feel repetitive over time.
Really innovative idea, but I think this game needs to be played in a different way, for instance instead of a keyboard, leap motion maybe? It was no fun to change fingers with 1 2 3.. etc. Great mood though.
Goodies and obstacles are not distinguishable, which defeats the purpose of the game. Also, what is the connection with the theme, I did not understand.
Excellent game and a very solid entry! Would love to see the ending if you guys ever finish the story :)
Very cool looking game but really hard controls for me... Love the stop motion type graphics!
Very entertaining game, good job!
Shift Report #1 : Notice of Accidental Incineration
Shift Report #2 : Completed as Shameful in 7:00
Shift Report #3 : Shameful in 8:00 but this time with no penalties, still shameful? Your standard is too high, sir. :D
Overall, I loved it! :)
I like the mood you set in the game. However, I though the pace of the game was too slow, and the camera movement was slower than necessary to keep up with the character. It was also a bit annoying that the character already slides without me touching any buttons.
The first shape shift I got was the bloody one, and was not expecting it.. :) gave me quite a scare :D Very cute graphics!
It was really humorous at first, but then the controls got me out of the game when I combine W + Control on Chrome (Just quitted the tab). For the second time, it was an instant end. But I loved the chicken box idea!
Nice graphics but did not understand the logic behind it. The first two animals are almost impossible to play with, and then the third one is too easy. Maybe if the difficulty was building up or it was more balanced, could be more fun.
Great look and you nailed it on the theme! I wish the camera was zoomed and moving as we go around. Seeing the whole map at the same time did not feel there's much to achieve in the game. Also, a bit confused, since everything in the club was all men and sofas at the beginning of the game :D
Cute and fun game. Couldn't find what to do after I ran into the three locked squares, and ran into a bug right in there, now I am able to swim around everywhere (in winter season), and cannot change the season.
the same happened to me exactly like @Garr said :(
It was fun. It took me to years when Croc 3D Game was just released and it was all the rage. The jumping was very off though. I could not stand on any of the ledges. I would just jump over it and fall down!
Love the audio pick of this game. I thought the balance between happiness and humanity was a little off. I felt that there was no way to maintain both at an acceptable level for a long time. And in the end, it could be nicer if the final results were displayed.
Hilarious art style :)
I loved this game it is so fun to play!
@zookatron @BrianSChung @pogo Thank you so much for your lovely comments and feedbacks! I would definitely work on it and make the suitable changes for the post-jam link I will share later! I really appreciate everyone's input!:)
@Lady Beardo @Hyoga @Syldarion @tayl1r @SojaBird @Red_Fan games Thanks for your comments! I will fix the issues with the colliders, hopefully it will be much smoother. There was no time for me to find an audio, but I will be also adding it soon. I will also make vaporizing energy that is showed on the top bar a little faster so that it won't be that annoying! :)
**UPDATE** At last! Thanks to everybody that played the game, I was able to fix a lot of the issues that were mentioned in the comments (UI, speed, music etc.) and I noted down everything up there including controls. I also was able to add a little bit of a story in the game! :) btw @nickavv @state550 @guoboism @urfbound @ohmaigawd @lightspeedlucas kestrelgames davidcmcdonald thanks again for your comments & feedback, I really appreciate it!
Also in the last version, there are two missing particle animations that are showed as black particles, will right get to it for the next update that I will publish tonight! Thanks for your patience! :)
Hi @Llucile SHIFT kinda works as you push it keeps its form and when release, it has to go back to its form. So if you are stuck, where were you stuck at? Was it when one of the dialogs triggered? If so, you can skip the dialog by SPACE BAR and then shift to go back to your form. If you can let me know, I can fix this! :)
Thank you @iossif, really appreciate it :)
@Llucile Fixed the issues,updated the links you should be able to play it now :)
@mitya1234 The jam version does not have that bug. I will get to it once I can figure out what is the problem. @FistBumpGames The post-jam version has audio and faster walking and flying if you want to check out :) @muraisama @KappaIX @jakass thanks guys!
@apalade @Sabina Lis @Alphish @waveformmodulations @puppetmaster @Llucile @KairosXIII thank you so much everyone, you guys rock on feedback :) I will consider the comments and feedback and tweak more to finilize the version for 0.1d. Will move on to 0.2 to add more complex levels, puzzles and longer narrative and an achivement system for picking up atoms. Will only upload the game on itch.io from now on, and this version will be fixed here for anyone to try! ( will also add an Android version for people who would like to try on mobile )
@Freank So sorry! I will upload it today after fixing some final bugs and slow movement :) Thank you so much for letting me know!
New update, comes with itch.io and gamejolt pages, along with the final bug fixes. Also Android build arrived for anyone to try on their mobile devices.
One thing I want to mention: I had to add "Z" key for shapeshifting along with the "SHIFT" key since there was a bug in WebGL that prevents "SHIFT" to be released automatically. So make sure to use "Z" instead of "SHIFT" in WebGL if you do not want to stuck around! :)
@Freank I opened up an account & replace the download page as this page, I hope that is OK :)
@gelisam, unfortunately was unable to add the "A" functionality in the jam version, while I switched the "A" with "Space" in the post-jam version. I really recommend playing the post-jam version, if you want to explore more.
@ryjcio @whilefun @Thomas Olsson @Lumicgames @gelisam @Gord10 @JayProg Thank you so much for your lovely comments and feedback! I didn't have a time to add a goal other than exploring all the environments and talk to every shape in the game to understand more about it, but I will have a full narrative and a goal for game's full release!
Thank you for your comments @flummox3d @pixelpotions @AnaGF @Satyre @MementoGames,it was my first ludum dare and I really appreciate everyone's feedback on this :)
You really touched my heart by your kind words @Tanton-H2X, I really felt the same kind of feeling when I was building those auto pop up activated one by one.. I am so happy to hear that from you too ~ I would be happy to share how I did the animations. Unfortunately I was so unexperince on this LD and did not think about recording my process. Will try to do it in the future, cause I think it could be helpful to anybody. But I think I can still share the source for the animations so anybody can examine them in unity Animator window. I always failed on walking animations in the past, so I observe more and more how people walk and how it affects the first impression of their personality. And I still think they are really hard to achieve in animation. And you had given me an amazing detailed feedback about UI and gameplay, which I agree on all the points you made. These would be very useful for me for its full release. Please also feel free to add me on Twitter: @medidog and send me a DM if you like! Again you made my day, so happy to see your comment ^ ^
I also want to thank everybody who gave me any feedback on this game, every one of them was so helpful to get me to gave a post-jam link and a decision to make it a full release. Please feel free to connect me via my Twitter account @medidog about updates in the future.
I like that the challenge is not in the number of shapes we can take but in the gradually increasing speed (makes it much more playable) :)
Certainly an innovative gameplay. I was not able to complete the game though, as I could not figure out how to get past a wall, seen in the fourth screenshot you shared.
It took a long time to understand how the game works. I thought the intro text was very hard to read. I wish there was like a background color for that. Amazing art and nice audio though. Good job overall!
Found the hidden message right away! I don't know if it was supposed to happen, but the head kept falling down on the floor and jumping around on the floor :)
I had real fun playing this game, I think the most innovative way to use shapes (especially the long rectangle one) and cool physics!
A really nice puzzle game. I feel like the game could be much more fun and playable with better level design.
The game would be much improved with audio. Also, I wish the colors were not blending when changing colors. This can become confusing. Also I think it would help the changing colors was achieved with other keys.
Fun game! Never though of such an idea about shapeshifting, well done! I just wish dying would not get us back to the very start. Maybe there could be some checkpoints once we solve each puzzle? Also the birds' flying sound is a little too much, compared to other sounds. Overall really nice entry!
Getting the same error as @Black Horn Studios and Gord10 in Windows. Would love to give it a go if it is fixed.
I like the mood of this game however, I did not like the physics in this game. Also the game was a little dark. Love the sunset and the grilled textures, though.
It is quite nice that you achieve a nice look, I love the atmosphere of the game. But it was frustrating at first how to play the game, and not a fan of the jump mechanics. But overall, I liked it!
I love how you implemented the mechanics. There's definitely room for improvement, however the game has very good potential. The only part I did not understand was why I needed to assume other people's identities, when I can already get into everywhere.
Very nice game and challenging. But it was 7-6 defeat for me :P
Very unique art style! You set the mood quite well sir. It'd be nice to see the theme come forth. I guess that was the beginning of a shapeshift when the guy could not move and he held his head in his hands? But great compo entry overall.
this game is really funny! Music is weird but fits the theme. I thought it was a nice kid game until I hit the 3rd level, which was really hard to finish. But overall nice entry.
Fun little game that is so cute... in the beginning :) you can see what's coming when you spot the red eyes :) Also nice art style!
It was so fun, I could not stop playing until the end. Well done! And it made me sad about Pluto, again..
I like the idea of integrating a classic split personality character as a shapeshifter. I do think the colors on the horizon are a bit confusing. It would help a lot to have a bar of some sort as part of the UI, to show what area is coming up next (maybe on a rolling basis as a map?) Or, fixing the colors of the game to make them more distinct would be helpful as well. I also though that the controls are a bit weird for this type of game. But overall, good effort.
Could not get past the Peepee level, but very innovative and fun game! I enjoyed it :)
It is such a nice looking game and pretty funny too. It was also really fun to play until it became too laggy around the middle of second level.
It would be also nice if there was a clear indicator of which level I am at. I really thought at the end of level one, that I somehow warped back to the beginning of the level, but it was actually level 2. Other than that, it is a pretty solid entry!
I really like the idea. Was quite fun to play. I just wish there was an indicator of which level I am playing, and maybe a way to load into the specific levels we've already unlocked?
The graphics are OK and the game is playable. But I don't really get the point of shapeshifting in this game. It does not give me any special powers like being faster or anything as it says. My speed was the same when I was a grass and when I was a rabbit.
Really great art style! Love the sketchy shapes that we become but I wish the default state of the character was not similar to the circle one. Also sometimes although I change my shape still got hurt from the same shapes that I change into.
Nice idea for the theme. But given how tricky the controls are, the moment button prompts stopped appearing, the game was over for me.
If you can at least make controls a little more recognizable, or just have all the prompts at all times, the game would improve so much!
Almost got my 5 for every category but camera movements and the controls really bothers the mood of this game. The camera is following too far behind, you probably need to increase the speed of camera follow movements according the character. The character controller needs adjustment as well. But I say these, because your game is so awesome overall and could not finish it due to its character controller:) If these issues are also solved, then the game is topnotch!
This is not a game, yet.. but really nice artwork!
Nice idea to make a stop-motion game! Quite enjoyed playing this.
Fun game. I ran into an issue: in the corridor, where there are two guards in opposite rooms, right after i ate one of the guards, the other one caught me so i kept on spawning in that exact spot, and the guard is there still, so it just went into an infinite loop. Other than that, really nice game.
It was such a funny game! Could not figure out how to gain health though after some days, I guess after night 15 or 16, it did not go up no matter what I did.