Your travel through ancient maze to discover long lost knowledge.
LOOK OUT: this can be kind of difficult - this is my mind in ludumdare mode :P
Your goal is to travel to bottom of ancient ruins. On each level when you make move (left, right, up, down) every active element responds to that rock roll arrows are shot your hero moves.
Rock and arrows will kill your hero if they hit him you can use block to protect yourself from being killed. You can also run rocks into each other to destroy them.
It is my first ludumdare. Ive used nodejs + Phaser combination for creating this game. Also it is my first time i have created music for my game. It took me about 8-10h to setup movement engine (i have used phaser physique and tilemap for the firs time) 2-3h playing with graphics and 1h for music. I have used second day for level design and adding arrow mechanics (without them level seam to be to easy) and gluing everything together
Description:
* It is short (6 levels) browser maze game
* You controll everything in labyrinth room with arrows or asdw
* Your goal is collect all tech cards and escape to next floor
* After each floor there is a piece of simple story uncovered
This a really good puzzle game. Intuitive controlls. The tutorial level shows the basic game mechanics with no word needed. The music and graphics are awesome.
One little flaw: When key is pressed over a longer time it generates multiple inputs and you have to wait until all inputs got animated.
Cool puzzle game with nice usability! After the arrows started the game lagged a lot making it hard to do things when the character got stuck at various places for long periods.
Woaw that was hard! But very clever level design. I'd have prefered a more progressive difficulty curve but that's probably because I'm bad ;) Anyway, good game, nice music and art for a game jam game, well done!
sorry for bad music but im novice at this part about complains that arrows are slowing down everything i have made simple fix and speed up transitions
@steph88 i registered on that page but can see any upload button/form most panel sub pages are empty only page that has some content are settings you can try finding games on gamejolt i have upload mine there http://gamejolt.com/search?q=ld36
Interesting mecanisms, but I had the feeling I finally got a solution more with luck than by really thinking about a way to finish the level... It might be hard to fix tho, as I think it comes down to the mecanisms you choose.
That was great - sokoban Indiana Jones :D If you've not seen it already, www.puzzlescript.net is a nice way to make tile puzzlers like this (complete with undo, which is a must in tricky sokobans).
@g12345 one of my problems in making of all that levels was knowing their difficulty when i firs created them they were in totally different order they are now in thise order only by my feeling but i should probably give them to some play testers and see what level of difficulty they are to others that didnt design it unfortunately i didn have play testers :P
That's some really neat puzzle with interesting levels. I've got to admit that the difficulty is a bit over the place, and the game being really unforgiving doesn't help, either (I've found the need to replay the level altogether really tiring; would have preferred if the death triggered something like "undo" effect). Especially since you need to have your eyes all over the place to look for potential threats.
As for the audiovisuals, the graphics worked well enough, while the music got pretty tiring pretty quickly. With that in mind, I find it good that the game has "only" 6 levels, as each already takes a while, in large part because of the need to restart the level on the tiniest deadly mistake.
(at the same time, I guess the fact that I completed all puzzles in the end shows it was pretty enjoyable, after all)
@Alphish interesting idea i will think of adding undo mechanic earlier i thought game is short so payers would finish it to quick and i have also added leadoards to kongregate version where you score based of how few moves you make
@Dietrich Epp i have noticed a lot people using phaser i started using it few weeks ago and i think of making something biger with it :) i will check you game when i get back home :)
Amazing graphics, good music. Gameplay is compelling and got me hooked for a while, even though I don't particularly enjoy these kinds of games, I rage quit after almost completing level 2 and being blocked. Very good game in general, congratulations! Nice to see someone else on Kongregate like I :)!
@cubotrox_toni i would really need some testers to tell me which one are hard and which one are easy they were in totally different order when i finished it i thought this one which is now first was easiest.
Sokobana-like puzzles, with clever level design. It suffered noticeably from the lack of sound and lack of variety in music (and an undo mechanic would have helped), but it's a good entry nevertheless.
Good puzzler! Very well made. I included it in my compilation video series of Ludum Dare 36, if you’d like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/QlYKcvCr0YM
Brutally difficult. ^_^; Graphics are good, but music is a bit repetitive. Also, are you supposed to be able to pick up a techcard if a boulder is occupying the space?
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One little flaw: When key is pressed over a longer time it generates multiple inputs and you have to wait until all inputs got animated.
My biggest complaint is that arrows slow down the gameplay a bit, they could go faster since, you have to wait for them to move anyways.
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description.
about complains that arrows are slowing down everything i have made simple fix and speed up transitions
@steph88 i registered on that page but can see any upload button/form most panel sub pages are empty only page that has some content are settings you can try finding games on gamejolt i have upload mine there http://gamejolt.com/search?q=ld36
The music feels a bit repetitive by the way
@Pyrofoux first few levels can be solved by accident last two need special starting sequence or you get screw :)
Please play my game here: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-36/?action=preview&uid=36629
No real complaints other than the music.
Oh, and I couldn't use cursor keys because the game detects them as 2 keypresses each.
As for the audiovisuals, the graphics worked well enough, while the music got pretty tiring pretty quickly. With that in mind, I find it good that the game has "only" 6 levels, as each already takes a while, in large part because of the need to restart the level on the tiniest deadly mistake.
(at the same time, I guess the fact that I completed all puzzles in the end shows it was pretty enjoyable, after all)
@Dietrich Epp i have noticed a lot people using phaser i started using it few weeks ago and i think of making something biger with it :) i will check you game when i get back home :)
Pixel art and music are correct.
Maybe, I should make the moving animation a little faster. And please, make the level 1 easier. You must regulate the dificulty curve.
@spacewarp i have updated kongregate version and added gamejolt you can check if it works now?
@Ilseroth thank you i have restrained input buffer so it should be a little more responsive
@qkerguelen sorry for that difficulty i wanted that game to be at leas a little bit challenging because it is so short
@TheMightySice i missed that controls glitch its fixed now and thanks for noticing whats tutorial level all about
@oskardevelopment in updated versions i have speed up turn switching thanks for noticing that problem
@tenpn thanks for noticing that scrolling problem i usually use asdw and wouldn't noticed it
More sounds would have brought a big plus but it's still pretty good.
the puzzle themselves can be quite challenging, but i kinda suck at puzzle games so this could be just me :p
from what i tested, solid entry overall, well done :)