NOTE: The non-compo version has been modified since the end of the LD, so votes shouldn't be based on it. That being said, if you just want to play it, it's your best bet since it fixes some annoying bugs.
Controls: WASD, E to use
This game was made by Caleb Jones (me) and Owen Hughes, music by Kai McKenney.
Our tools: Unity3d - Game engine (Unity Pro trial graciously supplied by the LD) blender - Level meshes and objects Photoshop - End screen, glass textures
Here's the description by my partner.
The Quest for Phillip's Glass is a puzzle oriented game. It features very physical puzzles that involve activating buttons with cubes. Doors are useful, as are platforms, though platforms are not always immediately obviously present in a room. It draws from the most basic elements of physical puzzle games to create a simple, but not necessarily easy game. The Legend of Zelda, Portal, and Mirror's Edge were the largest inspirations for the game. We did not have time to put it in a proper 3rd person perspective.
Ran into a bug: You can drop a cube while it's halfway through a wall and break a puzzle. Other than that minor thing this is really cool, has a great cheery colorful vibe.
I love puzzle games. Some problems, though. The boxes seemed to get moved back to their start position under seemingly random circumstances, and when jumping to the bottom floor of one the levels I could neither find a way up nor a button to restart the level. Otherwise, great!
this is a very fun game. I liked how the puzzle was designed and the music. there were a few small things that could use fixing but other then that it was great!
Excellent game. The visual style is very satisfying and matches well with the theme. The gameplay is nothing new, but it's fun and well designed. The music is a nice choice. A mouse lock and cursor would have been nice, especially since this is based on looking and placing blocks.
I liked the simple graphical style a lot. It was very annoying how there was no way to get out of pits apart from restarting the game from the beginning. This stopped me from continuing the game to the end.
This was great! A few slightly game-breaking bugs, like the blocks getting stuck in the walls and weird clipping errors, but that's more than made up for by the rest. Great graphics, easy install. I really liked that you could see the character's shadow.
Thanks guys, your comments mean a lot to me. I plan to continue working on the game for a few more days and posting a non-compo version. I really would like to fix all the game breaking bugs at least, and make a few puzzles a little bit less confusing.
@Phase I was originally trying to make it a 3rd person game, but since I ran into issues with mecanim, I finally gave up. I left the walking animations in place though, since I wanted to use the character for something.
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KaiMcKenney421 May 2013, 19:36
Nice job guys! Though the sensitivity was a little high and the blocks glitching through the walls was a little annoying, the puzzles were well made and the game was a nice, fun, quick play. Did the puzzle with ordering the blocks with the notes not work out? I was looking forward to that. Anyways, nice game! Good job.
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lulzymugsywugsy1 May 2013, 21:02
I thought this game was brilliant. It reminded me somewhat of Tapirs.
Liked the style of your game a lot, I see what you mean about the similarity between our games. My only problem is I fell on one of the early puzzles (embarrasing) and couldn't get out of the hole, so had to reload and start over.
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_Rilem2 May 2013, 19:43
Very clean look to it, very nice. The puzzles however not that innovative, are cleverly done. The way the color separate them is subtle and nicely found. Great work guys!
Great game! I played the postcompo because the controls were too sensitive for me. Good to have the walkthrough, at one point I thought I got stuck because of a glitch.
Very nice, very pleasing (got stuck on bugs but perseveered!)
Is that Philip Glass? It's beautiful music.
Well done~!~!~
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SuperlevelSebastian10 May 2013, 11:26
Sadly I can't play the Windows version (Win XP, 32bit). When I try to, I get following message: "Unable to load mono library from "C:/[...]/Downloads/LD26/QuestForPhilipsGlassWin/QuestForPhilipsGlass_Data/Mono/mono.dll" (error = 126)."
But web version worked.
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Monxcleyr Productions12 May 2013, 13:37
I can definitely see the Portal and Mirror's Edge influence. The puzzles had a nice difficulty curve, and I didn't feel like they were ever too easy or difficult. Great job!
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But other than that, really enjoyed the feel of this entry. Very nice!
It's pretty similar, one of my favorite games so far.
Nice coherent level design though.
@Phase I was originally trying to make it a 3rd person game, but since I ran into issues with mecanim, I finally gave up. I left the walking animations in place though, since I wanted to use the character for something.
Anyways, nice game! Good job.
Is that Philip Glass? It's beautiful music.
Well done~!~!~
But web version worked.
Mouse moves a bit fast too.
Very clean look.