Short but sweet. Only real complaint came from controlling the left side of the screen with my right hand (on the mouse) and the right side with my left hand.
For a game based around audio it would have been nice to have some kind of audio level slider somewhere, it was very quiet on my machine and I needed to turn the volume way up to be able to hear it. On the flip side however, none of the puzzles put forward required you to listen, just trial and error with moving shapes next to each other. Indeed the first few puzzles just required you to move all the stones in to a pile, then jump on the platform and move them away.
It would be nice to see this idea expanded upon. I'm sure it could lead to some devious puzzles. You could make great use of the Stroop effect to bamboozle people too. Get them linking, in their mind, that Blue Gem moves Blue Platform, then have it switch out. That kind of thing.
Innovation is for sure a 5. I could see this having a lot of complicated puzzles weaved into it with more development. I found myself combining certain stones just for experimentation. Neat!
Great take on the theme. Picking from overlapped stones was a bit difficult though. The audio feature is one of those that sounds good in theory but not so much in practice :)
Hi there. Interesting idea. Got to 5 gems, bookmarked for later. Only slight technical issue is that sometimes keyboard input for the redsquare stops working. Reload level works though, so perhaps not too hard to fix ? Good job!
Really like the idea :D I like the hand-drawn parts of the graphics, if the coloured shapes fitted the style it would be really awesome. The controls of the red square stopped working a couple of times, seemingly randomly.
By far the best puzzle game I have played in LD30 so far. If this had a graphical overhaul and some extra mechanics I could see this going a long way, well done! :D
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For a game based around audio it would have been nice to have some kind of audio level slider somewhere, it was very quiet on my machine and I needed to turn the volume way up to be able to hear it. On the flip side however, none of the puzzles put forward required you to listen, just trial and error with moving shapes next to each other. Indeed the first few puzzles just required you to move all the stones in to a pile, then jump on the platform and move them away.
It would be nice to see this idea expanded upon. I'm sure it could lead to some devious puzzles. You could make great use of the Stroop effect to bamboozle people too. Get them linking, in their mind, that Blue Gem moves Blue Platform, then have it switch out. That kind of thing.
Is there any pattern to putting two stones together to move platforms? I couldn't figure any out.
concept, would love to see this with more polish
If this had a graphical overhaul and some extra mechanics I could see this going a long way, well done! :D