The Rules Are Simple... is a minimalistic game that centers around the visuals of minimalist artist Piet Mondrian. As you play the game the rules change....
Beat it after many many deaths. The different rule variations were cool and kept the game interesting. The end screen was also a nice treat. Good work.
Awesome game! Great use of the theme! Make sure you play it to the end so you can draw your own art haha. I found myself using spacebar to jump so my move hand was independent from my jump hand. Bookmarked ;)
I got stuck fairly far into the game. I really liked the level design. One thing that would be so cool is if you managed to get all the black lines to draw and subdivide rectangles. Mind you that would be pretty tricky to add on top in 2 days XD. Nice job.
A bit sluggish on my machine and it would have been nice to have a little more margin of error on a lot of the jumps (particularly the early ones), but a neat enough take on the style.
Wow! Fantastic, fantastic work! I love the animation when the player is loading. I made a Mondrian/De Stijl based game, too, but this is probably a bit more polished.
I really liked how you changed the rules of the game as I progressed. Not being able to move left really opened the game up for me. Strategizing a platformer by limiting the player's resources is quite clever.
My only criticisms would be the lack of ascent control, and I wish I had more time to prepare my first jump during the auto running levels.
Very nice game. The varying pitch of the jump sound effects and the simple way the rules were conveyed added greatly to it. A few difficulty spikes though.
The graphics are simple, but the number of levels and how they are difficult very add a lot of content to the game. It was a pretty cool game, and I liked the concept of limited actions!
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Jiggawatt1 May 2013, 16:59
It lacks some focus and has a bit of awkward progression, but it's still one of the most promising prototypes. 4 stars just for the amount of content.
I could see this being made into a full-length game, with higher production values. Please consider that.
I know its just barely a second, but waiting for the box to be filled in in a game where death happens frequently, builds up to frustration D: Despite frustrations, good game, nice ideas, managed to get to the end and enjoyed the little bonus thing :D
I like the idea of making a game around simplification of the control scheme. I feel like the game really shined when all keys were eliminated but 'up'. It just felt like it took a long time to get to that point. I also feel like there were some consequences of 'no left' that could have been explored that weren't. Lots the expand upon here. Great work.
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My only criticisms would be the lack of ascent control, and I wish I had more time to prepare my first jump during the auto running levels.
Great job!
I could see this being made into a full-length game, with higher production values. Please consider that.
Awesome though!
It's really match the theme, good job! :p
Despite frustrations, good game, nice ideas, managed to get to the end and enjoyed the little bonus thing :D