Bolt

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.16
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.82
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.36
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.36
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.21
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.03
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.77
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★100%
Play with electricity in this mind-bending puzzler!

Bolt is a unique puzzler inspired by Tiger Electronics' "Lights Out". Unlike its inspiration it features connected switches in a variety of layouts, not restricted to a grid pattern. Furthermore, Bolt has three different types of switches and provides a great challenge.

This was my first ever Ludum Dare entry and I hope you enjoy it!

Genres: puzzle

Comments32

icedvariables
icedvariables25 Aug 2014, 09:13
Interesting game. Not sure if I fully understood what I was mean't to do so at points I often resorted to randomly clicking 'bolts' in the hope that they match up. Also, the music is quite repetitive but apart from that it pretty good.
BinaryPie25 Aug 2014, 12:41
Not the most original mechanic, but well implemented. Nice game. Sounds like you recorded the music yourself, which I appreciate, but does get irritating eventually.
Kalor25 Aug 2014, 12:43
I enjoyed the game quite a bit. I found that different switches could of been explained a bit better and the music got repetitive very quickly but it was still fun.
technocf25 Aug 2014, 12:43
It's an OK game but I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do.
hungyg
hungyg25 Aug 2014, 12:47
Very nice graphics and animation make this simple idea a well polished and executed puzzle game.
PTSnoop
PTSnoop25 Aug 2014, 12:48
Very polished for a 48hr game! The music was a bit repetitive, and I'd have liked the menu animations to have been a little faster - but the game itself is very good.
Peping
Peping25 Aug 2014, 12:49
This is a great logical game. Hope to see the idea taken further!
CryoGenesis
CryoGenesis25 Aug 2014, 12:54
Good graphics/audio and general presentation. Very interesting, had no idea how it worked, still managed to win. Good job!
mess110
mess11025 Aug 2014, 12:59
nice game. I feel the animation could be a little faster though
monsterkillu
monsterkillu25 Aug 2014, 13:10
Quite interesting and quite hard ... I played about 3 or four levels ... Well done .. How did you do so much on just two days !!! :)
Manou25 Aug 2014, 14:43
I'm very bad at this game :( But nice gfx and polish.
FeYbraNt25 Aug 2014, 14:46
Nice game design !! Lots of levels and very simple. The only thing you need to think is about that noisy "sound ambient" :P.
BillToWin
BillToWin25 Aug 2014, 15:13
Very solid presentation. Great look. Simple game mechanic but it's been done before and I don't find it that fun.
micahcowan
micahcowan25 Aug 2014, 16:58
Good fun, and challenging. I feel like I might get farther if I just sat for a few minutes and reasoned about it for a while. Good game!
Rob Glen25 Aug 2014, 20:04
Took a while to understand what I was doing right whenever I completed a level, but once I got the idea of it I quite liked it. I'd say the music loop was a little too short, got a little grating after a while. But apart from that, good game!
Bubblman
Bubblman25 Aug 2014, 21:17
Really nice game!
esayitch25 Aug 2014, 22:02
A nice simple game. The execution was top notch, very polished, simplistic graphics that go along very well with the concepts. Levels were well-designed too and provided increasing challenge.

Sound got annoying after a while I guess, but that's about it :)

Solid entry, good luck!
Pavel26 Aug 2014, 11:01
Cool ideal. Simple and interesting at the same time.
Simon26 Aug 2014, 11:14
So very challenging! It's a bit hard to grasp at first but otherwise very good entry :)
Xeke_Death26 Aug 2014, 11:32
Looks nice and clean, works well...
Good work...
akymos
akymos26 Aug 2014, 13:38
A really good puzzle game.
Agecaf
Agecaf26 Aug 2014, 15:40
Very nice puzzles, and great UI! I think the music wasn't the best fit though...
kdunee
kdunee26 Aug 2014, 16:14
Nice and simple puzzle game, though the unevenly loop short guitar riff gets annoying quickly. I liked the UI.
ponk
ponk26 Aug 2014, 19:33
Great game !
Looks nice and smooth.
Concept is fun !
aeveis
aeveis27 Aug 2014, 06:00
Beat it. Nice puzzle game. like the solid graphics. Maybe a bit more feedback with how the different colored switches worked?
martim0027 Aug 2014, 16:55
Nice graphics and gameplay. Could be easily played on mobile. The music is annoying but I really liked the guitar effect. Maybe another melody..
enteagd28 Aug 2014, 14:11
Clever game, with some nice graphics! Only nitpicks I could find would be that single repeating loop of music is very distracting in a puzzle game! Good job.
Jezzamon
Jezzamon2 Sep 2014, 08:35
Nice! Good job with the minimalistic graphics.

I think the lines between electric things and the way they lit up was a bit misleading, as what's more important was whether each box was active or not.
Random Abductions
Random Abductions8 Sep 2014, 12:49
Very polished, nice graphics. The music did become quite repetitive (but you have music so that's good). Nice puzzles, but could use a little more different variations to it, besides the 3 buttons you have right now. (Maybe add a switchable diode or weird logic nodes.) Still it was 48 hours, so great job!
Artamus14 Sep 2014, 12:10
Nice game, congrats!
pjimmy
pjimmy14 Sep 2014, 15:08
very interesting puzzle game, not so sure about the theme
Literal Games14 Sep 2014, 21:31
Interesting puzzle mechanic, although I did end up randomly clicking a lot of the time.

The game feels very polished, I loved the menu animations and the juicyness of the buttons, and the art style is just what it needs to be for this kind of game. Great work.
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