Using the theme 'Two button controls'. Created for LD Compo, and about 20 working hours were spent on this game.
Play as 'Hearty' and use z to move and x to rotate. Hold z to wait a turn (enemies turn up around level 4). This is a puzzle-ish game, but not particularly difficult nonetheless.
Nice and fun, cool graphics, good animations and nice music. I like the style, not sure about theme (hearty collect gold stuff and avoid green monsters?).
I really liked the game, but it seemed very slow. I know you were trying to maintain the theme by using two button controls, yet the having to constantly turn around seriously cut into the gameplay. I think it would have been better with mouse click as an automatic turner (i.e. making three spin moves instantly). That still would have been two buttons (Z and mouse).
Very cute, fun to play game. I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/rQfOYGAIpM0
Nicely presented, but it seems like you tried to compress four button controls down to two button for the sake of meeting the theme limitation and it suffers for it. I could see it working if there was some mechanic around constantly spinning on the spot, but here it just feels like a work-around.
Well done regardless. Strange that you took out the audio rating - I was gonna rate this a 4. As far as I'm aware using content generation tools is totally allowed and, hey, you had to pick this out of all the crap CG music usually comes out with, and set the instrumentation so you can still get credit for that!
@Cake_Catastrophe It appears you didn't play far enough into the game. On level four, when enemies appear, turning takes a move, so it actually participates with making the game and becomes a mechanic.
Since I tested the beta in IRC, I obiously had to test your game as well. It's still super cute, the animations and graphics are top notch :) I feel though, that the theme brought a tough constrain to your game, for example I feel like the skip a turn should be a separate key ( and you might have already felt that way as well ). But I can understand the struggle, make it separate -> Fail theme and you can't just leave it out, since it's a core mechanic.
Nice game well polished and good idea, but the movement and the gameplay are too rigid, so it's more laborious than fun.. Nice graphics and music though
I'd made rotation with different button, maybe up arrow. I think, it would be easier to move. Also, if you face the edge tile, why does to allow to select outside grid? Beautiful game.
A fun and difficult puzzler that has been really thought out. It looks charming and the music is great. It's very difficult to play - or i'm just rubbish ;) Good Luck! Oh, and you could improve by tightening up the controls as it feels a bit slow.
I can totally see how simply "fixing" the controls by allowing to move in whichever direction you want would break the game. At the same time, I also found the controls cumbersome and, at some points, got the feel that I was waiting instead of actively solving the puzzle(which wasn't the case).
If you were to build upon this I would suggest to allow four-way movement but having it "cost" turns instead(and showing it explicitly). So that for example moving up, when looking up costs you one turn, two when looking left, three when looking down and so on...
It's cute, but I don't think that 2 button controls in this type of game add any particular interest or unusual situation to gameplay. Mostly feels like it just cripples player's movement for no reason.
I liked how being able to turn in only one direction actually makes the puzzles more difficult. The game was a bit boring at first, but later levels get more interesting. However, "skip turn" should be a separate button, so using long press to make it fit is kind of stretching the theme. Presentation is very good, solid entry.
I like the style, not sure about theme (hearty collect gold stuff and avoid green monsters?).
And why heart can go in only one direction ?