About the game: Solenoid is a puzzle based platformer which incorporates the use of magnets to perform tasks in a building. Although we had numerous levels set up for use, we were only able to perfect one in the time frame. Use A and D to move. Space to jump. T to use magnet. Mouse Wheel to change magnets.
Couldn't tell how to make the robot hit the switch, robot floated up through the floor and got stuck in another room, got stuck trying to climb a ladder.
I liked the music. The animations and the art were good. Overall very good! My only suggestion would be to make it more obvious what kind of magnet you're using (I didn't see the text on the top left for a while) and a little indicator so we know what robot we're magnetizing.
Much too slow to move and get to the building, in my opinion. I could see that my mousewheel was changing something in the upper left, but unfortunately the top 3/4 of the text was cut off and I couldn't figure out what to do.
The controls are not to ergonomic, and the character movement is slow. The music is realy good, i agree with you, also i like the mechanics. Just change the keyboard layout and the character speed and it will be awesome :)
It's a nice little series of mechanics, and I can see them broadening out really well; though I found the tutorials pace a bit slow - would've been nice if we had a more free playground to run around while inducting the mechanics
This was a bit too slow for my liking. I don't think the audio tutorial was necessary either and felt it added to the slow pace of the game. I would have rather had visual cues instead. The controls were a bit .. unnatural. It felt weird to move my hand from the mouse to the keyboard so often to change magnets and use it.
The puzzles are interesting, too bad you didn’t release more levels. Also, please add alternate control bindings. I don’t have a mouse wheel and I had to wait a whole week before I could try your game at someone’s place…
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