Have a try at being a 10 Second Sculptor. Try to duplicate the 3D block object one layer at a time and from the ground up. This game idea was inspired by 3D printers.
You have 10 seconds to draw each individual layer. After the timer goes off, the current layer is locked and you have to start on the next higher layer.
The entry has 10 separate objects to duplicate. If you find the beginning levels too easy, try some of the later levels! The last one should be pretty challenging.
Made with: Unity, Vectrosity plugin (for drawing grid lines) Sounds: BFXR Art: MS Paint, GIMP Font: Hanalei by Brian J Bonislawsky
Nice game. Cool, simple graphics. Coordinating between the 2d and 3d views is a little tricky. Maybe the 2d view should rotate when you rotate the views?
Would like to be able to click to change colors, needs a reset/exit puzzle button. Other than that, it's brilliant! I'm a big Picross fan and this game reminds me of Picross 3D in a good way! Nicely done!
Yeah this is truly brilliant. This is the first game I've played so far (out of dozens and dozens) that I could see myself playing for hours, really bonding with, really making my own. Fantastic, elegant, clever. You deserve a handshake, a pat on the back: whatever it is that would make you feel a great sense of recognition and accomplishment. Seriously.
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Snail_Man26 Aug 2013, 04:36
Very fun game, but it was to large for my computer screen, which was wholly annoying.
Awesome game. Finally a game that lets you skip to the end of the ten seconds instead of waiting for the timer to go out. The only think it needed was what ZeroKelvin already said where you need a reset/exit puzzle button.
Interesting concept but the mix of keyboard an mouse for controlling the game is a bit confusing. Being able to click on colors and the clock to end early would make more sense.
Thanks for the kind words everyone :) You can jump out of any the puzzles by pressing the Escape key and restart any level by pressing R. I suppose I could have made that much clearer instead of just sticking a message at the bottom of the Level Select screen.
More mouse control would have been nice. Having to press the keyboard enter (as opposed to keypad enter) was kind of a pain. Should have been able to click to continue at the end of each puzzle, and click the colors to choose them.
That was a pretty neat game! The idea is original, and I had a lot of fun playing with it. Some ideas:
-> It would be cool to have a "free-drawing" mode -> Some sound effects when you put down blocks (blop blop) would be fun -> A reminder of the hotkeys would be useful - midway through the game I forgot the "skip" hotkey, and could not find it again.
Clever concept, felt a lot like I was being forced to speedrun playing with lego! Ended up giving up on the tree and the lizard, and I think the house didn't like being hollow (but there was no way to know this from it's destination image).
Overall felt very innovative, the little sound effects were nice, the controls felt solid (though enter's functionality being mapped to space I think would have been easier!). It's a bit of a shame that there wasn't any music since I think it could have benefited from some light ambient stuff.
I think you should expand the idea further in a post compo version. I would love to see a level editor and some music. You could probably thrown in some additional elements to keep the game play interesting across a hundred levels, like having bad guys who eat your blocks as you go along or something to that effect.
Thanks for making a linux build (web builds don't run on linux), many people who use unity have neglected to which is unfortunate.
My lizard looked like it didn't want to live anymore. Really fun game. Really neat. 10 seconds was a good and challenging pace. Very well done! A level editor and some relaxing music would make this exponentially better!
Very cool game. At first I thought I was terrible at it, then I found out I'd inadvertently started on level 6 (game was much simpler when I went backed and worked from level 1 all the way up).
Nice idea, got pretty hard fast, cause I am bad at it. Very nice idea though! I featured it in my LD27 compilation video series, if you'd like to check it out :), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1OMEshCeQ0
But lag really killed the later levels for me. There was no way to quickly draw everything. But that's partially fault on my end (for using a slow pc).
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Jiggawatt5 Sep 2013, 22:35
This is a pretty clever take on the theme, glad every level wasn't as monotonous as it seemed at the start.
I was hoping for a sandbox mode where you just build things without a time limit, haha.
Very nice game! At first I thought it was easy, and was going to be too easy, but you ramped up the difficult quite nicely and the levels got nice and hard. Bookmarking!
This is one of my favourites so far! Excellent game, really fun and challenging concept and addicting. The gameplay forces you to think and use your brain, while in a rush. You should continue developing this to a complete polished version; it'd be really successful!
The score system could be revised: I get 76% without doing anything :P
Nice game! The difficulty ramped up nicely, and the ui was elegant. I think that I found a bug though, if you skip entire levels without drawing, you can get upwards of 80% accuracy on them.
Thanks again everyone for the kind words! It means a lot for my first LD.
Yeah, I probably should revise the scoring system.. I was running into some troubles with that part of the game. Right now the scoring counts getting blank spaces correct as well. And some levels are 80% blank spots.
I needed to count the blanks somehow because you could put a block where there should be a blank space. Without counting those blank spots as credit, I was getting negative scores.
If I ignored the blank spaces in scoring totally, you could then just spam the bored and make a giant single colored block in the earlier levels. With only a few hours left, I couldn't think of anything better and just went with blank spaces counting equally.
There's got to be a slicker way. Let me know if you have any ideas :)
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-> It would be cool to have a "free-drawing" mode
-> Some sound effects when you put down blocks (blop blop) would be fun
-> A reminder of the hotkeys would be useful - midway through the game I forgot the "skip" hotkey, and could not find it again.
Thanks for the game! I recorded a playthrough: http://youtu.be/8979etXUihg
MAKE IT SO!
Overall felt very innovative, the little sound effects were nice, the controls felt solid (though enter's functionality being mapped to space I think would have been easier!). It's a bit of a shame that there wasn't any music since I think it could have benefited from some light ambient stuff.
I think you should expand the idea further in a post compo version. I would love to see a level editor and some music. You could probably thrown in some additional elements to keep the game play interesting across a hundred levels, like having bad guys who eat your blocks as you go along or something to that effect.
Thanks for making a linux build (web builds don't run on linux), many people who use unity have neglected to which is unfortunate.
Just missed the liberator level :P
Really fun game.
Really neat.
10 seconds was a good and challenging pace.
Very well done!
A level editor and some relaxing music would make this exponentially better!
But lag really killed the later levels for me. There was no way to quickly draw everything. But that's partially fault on my end (for using a slow pc).
I was hoping for a sandbox mode where you just build things without a time limit, haha.
Good for kids also ;)
You should continue developing this to a complete polished version; it'd be really successful!
The score system could be revised: I get 76% without doing anything :P
I think that I found a bug though, if you skip entire levels without drawing, you can get upwards of 80% accuracy on them.
Yeah, I probably should revise the scoring system.. I was running into some troubles with that part of the game. Right now the scoring counts getting blank spaces correct as well. And some levels are 80% blank spots.
I needed to count the blanks somehow because you could put a block where there should be a blank space. Without counting those blank spots as credit, I was getting negative scores.
If I ignored the blank spaces in scoring totally, you could then just spam the bored and make a giant single colored block in the earlier levels. With only a few hours left, I couldn't think of anything better and just went with blank spaces counting equally.
There's got to be a slicker way. Let me know if you have any ideas :)
It fits the theme perfectly and has a very intuitive interface.
I do a similar game long time ago, but it was 2D with squares.