Black on Black

by lud4k
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★14%
My First Ludum Dare entry :)

The game is based on Piet Mondrian's art, so the style and game is very minimalistic.

Simple match 3 game, try to create a black on black screen...

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Comments10

martijn
martijn28 Apr 2013, 19:52
Perhaps some instructions for running it would be nice. anyways, for ubuntu the commands are "sudo apt-get install love", then "love Black_on_black.love".

Now about the game, it is very good. It hurts my brain that despite the fact that it seems so simple I cannot think of a good strategy to fill te board
simrob28 Apr 2013, 19:56
Very pretty game, it was pleasing to discover the mechanic after clicking for a bit, pleasing to come up with some simple strategies for getting to orange, and wonderful realizing I had no idea how to get past that.
Cybearg
Cybearg28 Apr 2013, 21:02
Very interesting. Cool to see Love in action. I'll have to try it sometime.

I can't say that I fully grasped the mechanics, but I was at least able to figure out a couple colors. I suppose that the point is for it to be a puzzle how to play as much as a puzzle how to win? In that case, it's certainly effectively puzzling.

Neat idea and nice look to the game.
leafo
leafo30 Apr 2013, 22:42
Interesting puzzle game.
TinyDrakkarStudio5 May 2013, 17:31
A lot of people used Mondrian for the theme .... the idea could be nice... but i like to play with this games ...
FREEZX
FREEZX11 May 2013, 15:17
Nice game. Unfortunateley i didn't quite understand the mechanics. What does Matching stand for? Why do some fields go blank? This should be explained much better IMHO. I liked the whole layout of the game and love2d is cool :D
Lucas Tiridath
Lucas Tiridath11 May 2013, 16:03
Neat game and well suited to the theme. A little hard though! I don't think I managed to get any black squares, let alone the whole lot! Still, well done.
arrogant.gamer
arrogant.gamer11 May 2013, 16:44
I also had trouble understanding the mechanics. High score of 153 but no leader-board so no context for that number... I am all for games that don't explain themselves, especially puzzlers like this one, but you surely need to give a little more feedback to encourage right action.
alts17 May 2013, 07:48
Congrats on your first Ludum Dare entry. I have a few comments that I wanted to make. It asks the player to do the impossible: create black on black. The best a player can hope to get is orange, and the screenshots are misleading. Was that intentional? Also, it feels weird to offer a score when the maximum possible score is based primarily on the granularity of the grid. Scores can't really be compared if the configurations are not consistent.
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