Done in around 3.5 hours, because I thought I should submit at least something.
You control four monsters - switch their places so they get the correct food by just dragging them up and down via mouse. Nothing more to say. In its heart it's a compo entry (all done from scratch, using Haxe and jAllegro), but I submitted it on Monday.
(And yes, I know that it's actually called Frankenstein's monster, and Frankenstein was the guy who created it.) ;-)
I did have some issues figuring out how to control the characters. Tried clicking them, using the keyboard and some other random stuff before I figured it out. Maybe showing a quick message when the game starts (like "drag a portrait to move") would help people out.
Color coding each character and their food was a great idea, it helps figuring out what goes where much quicker than thinking about the theme behind each of them. Making the difference in colors more evident probably wouldn't hurt though.
This is the sort of gameplay that would probably work on a touch screen. Add a couple of levels with gimmicks and some better graphics and you have a pretty decent mobile game :)
@flokitall, @Elenesski: Yeah, sorry for the confusion about the controls. It's explained when you click on "Web", and I forgot that you can't see that here. I added an explanation to this page.
Funny little game, the colors could be a bit more outspoken for me to make the monster-matching easier. Perhaps using the keyboard for controls would also have been easier. Good effort for the short time you had though!
Nice little game, I got confused about how to play it because I didn't read the description. As someone commented before, colors are kind of washed out though.
Nice job getting something submitted even if it was at the last minute! My high score was 380. Three symbols at once seem like they would be quite tough.
Haha cool quick made game, it became interesting as multiple foods are coming at the same time... At first i was a bit frustrated because drag n drop did not work,because i'm using firefox : with chrome it's ok !
Considering that you did this in 3.5 hours, well done! It actually got pretty dang hard, especially when the monsters would get rearranged as you dragged them around.
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Biruts30 Aug 2015, 00:53
Very nice project guys, i really love it, please check our game too and if you liked it give us a vote. Look for Road to hell and enjoy.
Wow! To be fair this is a fairly solid game for a "jampo" entry (my game is also a jam-compo entry. jampo should be a thing. Can we make it a thing? Let's make it a thing).
Simple yet neat graphics, sounds and music!
It definitely needs some in-game instructions though. Had to look at the description/comments to figure out how to play.
It's still a fun game that I could probably play for hours! Good job!
Very nice and simple, the clicking and dragging isn't perfect (on occasions it wouldn't recognise my mouse was up and kept swapping the monsters regardless) and the music is quite monotonous and short, but it's easy to get into and the difficulty curve is smooth and gradual.
I did have some issues figuring out how to control the characters. Tried clicking them, using the keyboard and some other random stuff before I figured it out. Maybe showing a quick message when the game starts (like "drag a portrait to move") would help people out.
Color coding each character and their food was a great idea, it helps figuring out what goes where much quicker than thinking about the theme behind each of them. Making the difference in colors more evident probably wouldn't hurt though.
This is the sort of gameplay that would probably work on a touch screen. Add a couple of levels with gimmicks and some better graphics and you have a pretty decent mobile game :)