-Move with Arrow Keys or WASD -Space to use your sword -Click and drag to rearrange map (After unlocking Puzzle Gloves)
In a quest to find the blue door that is haunting his dreams, our intrepid young knight stumbles upon a pair of mystical gloves that allow him to shape the world around him!
After unlocking the Puzzle Gloves, you can click and drag to move tiles around the screen. This can allow you to access previously unreachable areas and solve puzzles!
The game is a bit harsh on the player: I died on the second level pretty fast from the enemy, and the tutorial screen is too slow (it was okay the first time but don't show it again when we die !)
However, I liked the "homemade" feel of the graphics, the sword usage just feels great too, the joke with the name is nice and I liked how you used the theme.
Nice mechanics of moving the tiles around! Some of the hitboxes and collisionboxes were kind of wonky which was kind of punishing when I died from an enemy and had to go through the really slow opening again. Overall, I really liked the idea and the entire zelda aspect of it (:
I had an idea similar to yours once, but I didn't know how to properly use the movable map portions for fun gameplay. Your game shows how to do it. Hats off, I'll keep my eyes open for that promised full version!
I think that this is one of the greatest ideas that I have seen in LD for a rpg-adventure game. I will valorate the idea and the potential. Maybe its a bit buggy, but your job is awesome, keep improving it!!
Great use of the theme! I'd love to play a fuller version of this game with lots of puzzles. I could see beam/pip puzzles and well as some interesting combat/bosses with this setup! I hope you continue work on it :D -CC
This was actually one of the more challenging games for me, in a very good sense. I sat down for quite a while figuring out the tricky but very funny puzzles. The combination of adventurer and puzzler is really great and I think it is actually one of the better combinations that I wished I saw more often. Amazing work!
Cool idea, but when you restart after dying, your sprite never goes back to "not-dead". so you become a moving, laying down corpse. Controls could use with a bit of tweaking but are usable. Overall, I can see this being fun with a few adjustments.
Really well done. Best game I've played so far. Very innovative. If there is one thing to criticise, it's the fact that your progress is reset if you die or go through the door again. I thought first: "Rearrange map? Must be easy!" - and it was, but not as easy as I thought. You had to think a little, and I liked that, and you had to design levels a bit more clever.
Clever concept! Please expand on this. With some polish and more puzzles and some easier levels this will be great. I played it all the way to the finish.
That was really neat! Really solid too for only 48 hours, only found 1 bug which was only graphics where after I spawned I would be laying down dead instead of standing up. Not too often you find games with real gameplay, I loved the audio as well!
I really wanted to finish the story, but the hit boxes were too unforgiving. Had to get too close to use sword, and the slidey movement meant I ran into things as I was hitting them with the sword, which was really frustrating :( I did manage to get to the second part of the second level though. I also like the music.
You nailed the mechanic! Combining some of my favorite elements from Zelda games and packaging them into a really cool idea! This has a lot of potential, great job!
Really clever mechanic! I could see you building out a great game based on it. Definitely some usability/polish things to be worked out, but that's to be expected for a weekend jam. Nice work!
Its a nice idea but the controls are too floaty and I kept dying because of it. Also the characters hitbox is too big and doesnt match up to the sprite.
So the controls are very loose, and the graphics aren't incredible, but the idea and implementation are great. Never played a game like this, and it is a really cool mechanic. Nice work OP.
Cool concept. Would of liked to see more puzzle elements, and I don't think the combat adds much to the gameplay as it is. I liked the audio and the graphics.
Great idea and fun mechanic to play with ! Don't listen to others, I like it when it's challenging like that and that you have only 1 life! Maybe in a full version you could add pieces of hearts to add to your health and all... anyway good job man !
great work. I really like the screen swapping mechanic. I think the character control would have felt a little better with a faster acceleration to their max speed.
There's some inventive gameplay here, nicely done! I feel like there's lots of room to expand on that concept: where tile placement isn't just about opening areas for the player to walk, but about getting the environment to interact with itself: for example, one tile could contain something that shoots fire and you could move that in front of a stand of hedges to burn them down. That sort of thing. Your pixel art has that old Zelda feel, but be careful not to be too constrained by your inspiration. :)
Dying after one hit was very unforgiving. I quit the game before getting the gloves, then read in the description what they do, tried to get them, died more, quit again. Then I decided I had to see how they worked and played more. I'm glad I did, those mechanics were very cool. You should have made them easier to access.
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However, I liked the "homemade" feel of the graphics, the sword usage just feels great too, the joke with the name is nice and I liked how you used the theme.
I'll be sure to keep a lookout for the full game.
I'm a big Zelda fan, so I love the feel of the game. Cool otomata music :)
Clever concept! Please expand on this. With some polish and more puzzles and some easier levels this will be great. I played it all the way to the finish.
Huge amount of wokr awaits! :D
Well done!
Nice music though! And nice sound.