Lock Block Tower

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.43
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.10
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.41
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★1.87
Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.45
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.06
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.30
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★60%
First entry! Title screen refused to work with me.

---CONTROLS---
Move with arrows
Space to use the key (it will unlock all locks around the player)
R to reset the level

YOU ONLY GET THE ONE KEY! But those keyholes look pretty easy to move...

---HOW KEYS WORK---
Since I failed to include a tutorial level, I'll put it here. Imagine the level is a grid system. The key will open any locks around the player, roughly in a square.

ie:
H H H
H P H
H _ H

P is the player. Using the key, it should open all the keyHoles. Since objects aren't stuck to a grid, you have a bit of wiggle room on setting it up differently from this. But if you aim for the above setup, that should work for you.

---Programs Used---
Game was created in GameMaker Studio. Sounds are made in Bfxr, which is absolutely awesome. Sprites were created in Pickle.

screenshot

Comments18

eternalmajinauthor16 Dec 2013, 04:36
The title screen refused to play nice in the waning moments unfortunately. Click the Play button or hit space/enter to start the game. Thanks for any time you put into trying my game!
WojWorks16 Dec 2013, 22:20
Interesting concept. Needs polish. Would be more fun to play if locked to a grid.
notajetski
notajetski16 Dec 2013, 22:24
nice little take on sokoban! however, i kept getting stuck on the walls.
eternalmajinauthor16 Dec 2013, 22:50
Thanks for the comments. I do plan on polishing it more and making more interesting levels, so I'll definitely take the grid locking into consideration.
Sorry about the getting stuck on walls issues. It came up after switching the player graphic and I'm still trying to find out exactly why.
mckoss
mckoss16 Dec 2013, 23:08
Sorry, I don't understand the game play.
ob6160
ob616017 Dec 2013, 17:45
The puzzle idea was pretty neat but I felt that a tutorial would be nice :)
doctorscientist17 Dec 2013, 17:46
This is a weird/interesting idea. I don't think movement needs to lock to the grid though. I think its fine.
CarlsonAndPeeters17 Dec 2013, 17:50
Yeah, the controls and physics make the game a little hard to play, but its a pretty good concept that could be improved with some polish and extra work.
burlapjack17 Dec 2013, 19:46
Aha! A three-sided key! I see what you did there :)
lapayo17 Dec 2013, 19:47
I found a bug. If you stand really close to a wall, you can no longer walk e.g. up or down if the wall is on the left. Otherwise, nice first!
Jellycakes18 Dec 2013, 02:28
Pretty nice, It got a little difficult and I couldn't get past the last level but I thought the concept was pretty interesting. Nice work!
dsoft20
dsoft2018 Dec 2013, 17:15
Nice concept :D
van noctar21 Dec 2013, 12:21
The third level is difficult but make me fell MarioSokoban :D I like it! Good job :)
murilo23 Dec 2013, 19:47
Nice puzzler. With the right collision detection and polish this can turn into a decent game!
anvoz
anvoz26 Dec 2013, 17:58
Nice puzzle game. I really love the idea about using one key to open all movable keyholes.

The movement seems buggy and it's quite hard to control. Maybe you should let everything moves from tile to tile instead of using pixels.
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