Breathless

by wakka
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.55
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.42
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.14
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.09
Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.93
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.97
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.71
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★82%
Yehaaaaw, I finished my first LD ;-)

Breathless is a puzzle game where you have to build pipelines to pump fresh air out of the water.

Stuff used (and learned)

* Engine: Godot
* Gfx: Pyxel
* Sfx: Audacity

* UPDATE April 29th: fix GFX glitches
* UPDATE May 1st: Sounds working now (Turned out I was playing them wrong :[ )

2014 by Nils Kuebler

screenshot

Comments32

Kiyaku
Kiyaku28 Apr 2014, 02:54
Really cool puzzle game, i love that you have to move some parts of the environment and the pipes, and i especially love that there is no timer making me nervous heh.
zedutchgandalf
zedutchgandalf28 Apr 2014, 12:51
You've got some nice puzzles going on!
It gets hard pretty fast, but it's cool that there's never any pressure. :)
nerdybirdy34628 Apr 2014, 17:07
I really enjoyed this! As soon as I realized it got challenging rather fast I was hooked. I liked the no rush factor too, that was nice!
gmaker28 Apr 2014, 17:16
really cool puzzle! ) nice palette you used, how many colors?
Griz
Griz28 Apr 2014, 17:29
Finished it in 348 actions total, what makes me wonder how many moves one would get in a perfect run. Maybe someone is up for a challege?
igwb
igwb28 Apr 2014, 17:29
I'm in love with the idea. The only source of air is... underwater. It seems ingenious.
As some people already said, the levels get hard very quickly, which I didn't expect at the beginning. This sets it apart from the usual "lay pipes to some place" game. How ever, I personaly find that this difficulty rather comes from sticking all the tiles together in a way that is a pain to disasemble than that the puzzle is realy difficult.
pinion28 Apr 2014, 17:34
Liked it, it got difficult fast for me because I'm terrible at puzzles but I like the action of moving the pipes.
Wakkaauthor28 Apr 2014, 17:48
@Griz I just completed it in 80 Actions =) Who beats that?
Baknik28 Apr 2014, 18:57
Great animations and effects!
d_0o_d28 Apr 2014, 18:59
Wow that's a really neat puzzle game. Would have been cool to have a lock on the raster for the pipes while moving them, though this is not at all necessary. Good job man!
morganbengtsson28 Apr 2014, 20:46
Very well thaught out puzzle game. Challenging and fun.
caranha
caranha29 Apr 2014, 04:26
Completed the game in 165 actions!

The game was pretty fun - the fact that the pieces got into each other's way was pretty interesting. There are a bunch of graphical glitches, and no sound (as you mentioned), but this is a solid idea that just needs some more polishing!
Wakkaauthor29 Apr 2014, 06:41
@caranha thanks, GFX glitches should now be fixed :-)
Ismei29 Apr 2014, 18:16
I don't normally enjoy puzzle games like this, but the absence of the timer made it way more relaxing. Got difficult quite fast for me, by I still enjoyed it.
lekochen
lekochen30 Apr 2014, 04:30
Neat little puzzler. Completed in 294 actions.
Teesquared
Teesquared30 Apr 2014, 04:31
Fun puzzle game. The tube snap works perfect.
Crazi45630 Apr 2014, 04:38
Very fun little puzzle game, took me a second to figure out you can move some of the environment. Great work!
CiderPunk30 Apr 2014, 22:47
neat puzzle! took me 180 actions
MunkeeBacon
MunkeeBacon30 Apr 2014, 23:50
Enjoyable little addicting puzzle game, well made and looks nice. Not quite exactly hitting the theme but that's okay.
sudorossy
sudorossy30 Apr 2014, 23:53
Cool puzzle game! Reminds me a bit of Pipe dream
Marcellus1 May 2014, 18:15
Nice puzzle, simple yet challenging. Good entry
Dominator_1011 May 2014, 18:18
Fun puzzle game! Wish I coulda heard the sfx, though...probably woulda made it even better :(

144 actions on my first shot.
Wakkaauthor1 May 2014, 20:21
SFX is fixed now
JavadocMD2 May 2014, 05:56
There is some nice puzzle design here. Well done!
BauhausGamesSyndicate3 May 2014, 20:38
Really not a fan of such puzzle games but nevertheless well done :-)
Moosefly3 May 2014, 20:54
Yay, another pipe-game! Although the gameplay in this one is that of a piece-moving puzzle instead of our traditional Pipe Dream approach. Managed to complete it in 223 actions total, but it crashed when I tried to quit it. I usually end up brute forcing my way trough these kind of games instead of taking the time to figure it out. Really enjoyable puzzler though.

Noticed a bug I guess. When I had a square piece in the slot of an L piece I could only select the L piece. Same with any kind of piece in the slot really. Would've also liked it if releasing the piece without moving it didn't count as an action.

I'm not sure if posting this comment was too wise though; now the people playing this might play our game too and hate it, seeing how people have been praising the lack of timer and all that :D!

Anssi@MooseflyGames
ArcturusDeluxe3 May 2014, 21:49
Interesting take on the whole pipe-game concept. I like the sliding puzzle aspects, having to move the pieces around and manage your space. Pretty fun to play and decent presentation. Good job!
Somfunambulist3 May 2014, 22:49
Very interesting premise with the shuffling gameplay combined with the very pipe dream-esque gameplay
ripatti5 May 2014, 16:08
Really nice small puzzle game! Finished in 189 actions (about 100 moves for the last puzzle). Good job!

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