Great use of the theme, the game mechanics works pretty nice, maybe this would create a good mobile game, because is very simple and addictive, good job.
You should, I think, 1. Make ingame background and textures moar monotonous, but moar contrast - it slow level decide. 2. Add new shape switchers or interactive objects - moar and moar boxes is bad idea. 3. Try to reach 5-9 objects on one pizzle. (by human's short memory size)
Music was quite good. Background art was good. I actually enjoyed the game. I did want more levels, but it's LD, so I understand. Really, if problem is that four levels isn't enough, that's a good sign IMHO. I actually think it was max fun.
MORE LEVEL PLEASE ! It's too short ! I noticed something disturbing when you shift back to the initial shape of a plateform it's considered like a shift, so you have to click on "retry" and restart all the configuration you made.
The graphics and music are cooooooool :)
Now add more kind of plateforms and levels with 2, 3, 4, 5 balls and this will be a very nice mobile game !
Hello! Loved the octopus drawings :) The puzzle design is interesting even though it's rather simple. Would be awesome if you expanded it into more levels to see how deep the concept can be (I'm curious about it).
By the way, what does the title mean?
Also, sorry for the merchandising, but just in case you are interested in playing our game and find nothing in my profile, that's because it's in my teammate's account.
Thanks for the comments! Well, about the title... Pachinko is a japanese gambling game, where a small ball falls in something simillar to a pinball. It is a completely random game, but we thought it could be nice a game that consists on changing a Pachinko's obstacles, so we decided to keep the reference. Henkan means something similar "to transform". The truth is we tried lots of titles, and maybe "Henkan Pachinko" isn't coherent on japanese (because we don't know japanese), but sounded good and had some relation with the game.
Really enjoyable - great mood and a simple but sweet concept. The difficulty curve of the puzzles was pitched just right. You could make a nice full game from this basis. Good work!
Makes me think of the countless hours I spent playing Peggle - big compliment! I like that you removed something usually so essential to this type of game ("the randomness") and I did not think anything was missing at all. I'd play more of it. The UI could have used more work to make the game feel more polished.
nice use of physics and the shapeshift of the boxes! I would suggest to make the number of shifts availables a Little more visible cuz i discovered it on level 3, maybe should read carefully the description haha
Quite simple but well executed! Some levels I could solve them without using all my shifts, I'd like it to be a little more demanding in that aspect haha. But it's a game really easy to understand and you can play it with very little explanation, that's a victory on design already. Way to go!
Short but well made game, nice idea for the theme. Maybe for a second version you can add new mechanics or feature that stop/change de movement of the ball. Also, for a new version look for other music: after a while it's pretty annoying for a puzzle-game. Good job!
Great and easy to understand concept. You have done a great job. I think there are few easy things you can change in order to inprove the gameplay:
1 - Posibility of undo a shapeshift and recover a movement. It turns a bit tedious to have to restart an entire level because of a mistake. 2 - More levels. It's known that there is not enough time in a game jam for including many levels but you can take it into account for a post-jam version. 3- And if it is that the case: Try to include different materials (ice, sand...) with different behaviours.
Nice entry. Simple yet effective mechanic. I think it could be easily expanded by adding some levels and increasing their complexity. Even a level editor could be implemented... y'know, give the community the tools and they'll do the work. Well, maybe I'm looking away too much :D
You can actually pass the last two levels using just one shift but other than that this was pretty fun to play and would definitely love to see some more levels.
Interesting mechanic and nice art/music. I'd like to see more elements than just boxes that turn into triangles, like things you have to rotate or circles that turn to ovals, etc. Some pachinko ringing style sound effects would really add to it too.
My daughter Jasmine played your game and loved it!! She was able to finish all the levels and had no problems with the controls!!! She said your art was amazing!!!! Fantastic job
Nice work on this! I like how the solutions are rarely what you'd first thing when looking at each level. It would be a nice feature to be able to see which blocks have been shifted. And of course I'd love to see more levels!
Hey I really enjoyed this, I only wish it was longer :) Some sort of scoring might of been nice and if you could come up with a way to randomly generate the layouts would be really cool but always leave your fans wanting more I guess :)
The graphics and music are good. Physics works well. Sometimes I have the feeling that the levels could have been thought out a little better. For instance, I was able to complete the last one with two balls left.
All in all, a solid entry. Maybe you can polish a bit and release it on an app store?
Good physics puzzler, the mechanics works well and the execution is nice. The graphics and especially background image is eye-candy and the audio fits the rest of the entry well. Enjoyed it a lot and played until the end, you could add more levels without any problems I think.
fantastic. I would add, if you click on the same object it shouldn't count as using a shift. clicking it again would be like an undo. great concept, alot of potential. add more levels with some other shapes and this could be great
simple mechanic. would like to see more to it, like scoring if you didn't use all shifts, etc. keep fleshing this one out more and you may have something here
Very short game, I think the mechanics were too basic to make more levels, it would get repetitive and unexciting quickly, maybe add different shapes or multiple balls. Over all pretty good. I liked the music too it suits the game.
Viendo los créditos os contesto en castellano :). Me parece que habéis aprovechado muy bien la jam para terminar sacando un producto nuevo. Nos agrada mucho la idea y os animo a continuarla. Único tip es que resulta curioso que se pueden acabar las pantallas con menos intentos de los que se ofrecen, se comprende porque es un juego de jam y no hay tiempo para afinar. Pero pensad simplemente en poner un sistema de estrellas 1-2-3 para que el jugador lo termine y para que se autoexija a posterior a completarlo del modo optimo. Un saludo, enhorabuena por completar el juego.
Really liked the puzzles, solved two of them without using all available shifts. The music is really catchy. Nice work! :)
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forestgamer00729 Apr 2016, 20:41
80 is maximum points to get Innovation: 4/10 Fun: 6/10 Theme: 5/10 Graphics: 6/10 Audio: 5/10 Humor: 0/10 Mood: 0/10 Coolness: 5/10 Overall: 31/80 Good Game
Short and really nice game, would be much better if shapeshifting could vary in terms of just block to triangle. Right now, everything feels like it is average, but normally the game has a better potential than what it is right now. Overall, great achievement!
Nice game,you need to add more levels though ! Also could add things like two balls from multiple sources, and a bonus if the player managed to win a level while saving some of the shape shifts. The music was good and so was the art.
Veamos... el juego ha sido divertido, lo suficiente para no despegarme de el, y olvidarme de todo hasta que me lo he pasado. Así que objetivo cumplido para una jam. :D
Quizá el "tema" no ha sido demasiado original. Puesto que he visto varios juegos usar esta misma idea, pero en este caso esta muy bien ejecutado.
Cosas que me han gustado: - La elección de la música. - El dibujo del pulpo, y el diseño de todos los elementos, parece una maquina de verdad. - El diseño de niveles ha sido lo suficientemente inteligente para jugar con mi inteligencia.
Cosas que no me han gustado: - Muy corto :D (Pero no es exigible puesto que es una jam y no se puede pedir más.) - El tutorial, el texto esta semitransparente, no indica bien como jugar, me ha costado entenderlo.
Cosas que me gustaría ver en un futuro: - Muchísimos mas niveles. :DD - El fondo de la maquina animado, con 2 o 3 frames. - Efectos de sonido. - Cuando la bola toque un elemento que este se encienda. Emita luz y sonido. - Mas elementos de coordinación, como bloques que se muevan. - Que por donde tiene que caer la bola forme parte del decorado de la mesa, como la boca de un monstruito o algo así.
Nice but short game. Kinda wish there were a few more levels. Also, it wasn't clear which way the ramp would go sometimes, as I wanted it to go one way, but it turned out to go the other so I had to retry. On one of the levels we had three shifts available, but I only did one and that was all that was needed. I don't know if that was by default, or I just found an exploit. Still it was fun while it lasted.
full of brainwave power!very interesing! it let me remind a old game which i play when i was a child, and the how great the decorative art,everything was fit together much innovation and harmony! espically the break down of the sense of rhythm,very cool and fantastic. ( third level & final level are the most cool level i feel,all not to hard but fun enough)
Thank you all for the votes and feedback! It has helped us to learn a lot. We have enjoyed this LD, we are thinking about making a post-jam version, though we have not much time. Ratings are good, we thought we had worse results since this edition has had a really good level, when I was trying and voting I rarely found a game which rating should be less than 3 stars. Thanks to all the people who played and voted :)
Game is nice, too short but nice, too bad we can't rate the music it was the best part.
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