Automatous Room Builders

Annoying that you have to start from the beginning every time you fail. Looks good though.

Nice puzzles! It is hard to progress though, if the whole game restarts when you fail. Not sure how many levels there are but I know from experience it's hard to create these sort of puzzles and you've done it well.

Great game! As the others have commented, it would be nice to not have to start from the beginning.

Great idea! It just feels a little too hard to control, but it is very fun

Very nice reminds me of Professor Layton...
Restarting is a bummer... Sound would be nice but not needed ... for now :)

If you can put the bridges restarting from a set position and snapping them to certain angles when key gets pressed: 15º, 30º, 45º, 60º... whatever is best for your levels.

Nice idea, well implemented, but restarting it's too harsh!

Neat idea. Would have been nice to start from the beginning of the level, instead of playing the levels I'd already done, again.

Surprisingly fun! I liked the Shift + Arrow keys controls a lot, it's satisfying when you get it right. Restarting is super annoying though, I'd definitely change it to restart the last level instead, but maybe I'm too impatient...

I've seen a variant of this where you use 1 road to allow 3 lane traffic to get through without crashes, but you have a puzzler game here instead of action. I think that's awesome and something I haven't seen before. You can probably make some pretty crazy levels with this game design, though it's certainly overwhelming once you have multi-vehicles.

Interesting idea but I hated that I always have to start from the beginning :(

The idea is nice and I really like the simplistic style chosen, but a real fallback is having to restart from the first level every time. Puzzle games don't really retain fun if the player is forced to revisit a puzzle they've already solved dozens of times without any change. The puzzles themselves were nice, but I would have preferred different controls, I tended to run the mouse off the screen.

Nice puzzle game, only issue is restarting the game from the beginning after failing a level. Other than that, great game!

Good concept, gets very hard very quickly though.

Interesting and Original Idea. but the controls could be better.also, it could use a little pause before the start of the level. to figure out what to do. but it's still a good game and has a potencial of becaming full-featured

Looks nice and idea is fun
Some polish and remove that lags in web build, and that could be lovable

It's cool game. However, it is very hard and I cannot continue to view other levels

Good, would be better with continues or lives and sound

Hmm. I really like the basic idea, and the gameplay works! However, having to restart from level 1 every time makes it very frustrating to learn how the game works, since there's very little time to experiment with the mechanics before you get bumped back to the tutorial. I'd love to see this idea get developed more!

I realy love the idea of this game. It's a really interesting puzzle game with interesting mechanics. Also it's an interesting example of theme usage. This game affords you this feeling "i must make that". The only problem - difficulty curve. It's gets too hard too fast. This limits your audience. My suggestions:
1) Pause everything when level starts or give some "freeze" time. That will give you time to analyze the level and read the hints (right now they have almost no value cause i don't have time to read them). This will reduce the death count dramastically.
2) With p.1 this might be unnecessary. You have a pretty strict lose conditions. It is really hard to pass the level in one go without time to analyze the level. You could've added some lives to make player's life a bit easier.
Overall it's a good game with strong concept. Especially for a compo entry. I'd like to play a bit more polished version of this game. If you'll decide to make that contact me. Good luck.

Super clever puzzle game. The isometric artstyle is minimalistic but really cool, mechanics are really cool and make tributes to awesome game such as Monument valley. Pretty neat theme interpretation and compo entry overall.

Like the idea and the style.
But controls are weird (try mouse and keyboard: mouse is too weird for me, keyboard is too slow or too fast with shift, I think it need one speed and less stressful level) and restart from the beginning is really discouraging (in the third puzzle I was thinking I had to avoid a car collision, so I try three time a bad idea...)
But a good start here!

Neat game! I included it in my compilation video series of the Ludum Dare 37 games, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/8ZKn12Y_qVg

i really loved this puzzle game. it is very unique. it is true that i wanted to start from the same level, it could be not bad to add it. It was good difficult. awesome job!

The mechanics are very original and fun but, as it has already been said, it's freakin annoying to start from the beggining every time you die. I'd have enjoyed the game much more (and completed it) if it wasn't this way

It was a little hard to figure out at first, and it seems rather fiddly, since the puzzles are based on a grid, but the movement is on an analog sort of thing. Interesting idea, seems like something that'd be a good fit for mobile phones.

Great entry and pretty original, at first I didn't get it but after trying 3-4 times I got the idea of the game haha. pretty cool, one question tho, you tried my game 'Code red', and you left some great feedback (thank you for that!) but I'm curious, did you tried the post-jam fixed version or the actual entry?

Thanks everyone for the feedback! If I decide to continue with the game, I'll definitely take everyone feedback in mind, especially the starting over bit (since pretty much every post pointed that out :P).

The initial goal was to have the room grow depending on which cars you put into the goal, and have the room continue regardless, but it was too much work designing puzzles based around that in 48 hours.

I'd probably change the game into a level based system, instead of a marathon sort of deal (so no randomly spawning cars, unless there's a clear reason for it to spawn), and make it more clear when the level will grow, such as a switch to build a bridge. This way, the game's main challenge would be solving the puzzles, and the reflexes involved, without the trial and error possess, removing the frustration.

As some of you stated, a snap / angle of error would have been a good idea, and something I wanted to add, but time was running low. It would solve a few of the problems people had, such as the cars running off grid (along with forcing the cars to move on grid) , and make it a little easier to control. So I'd definitely implement it.

The car's colliding and going the opposite way felt like a neat mechanic in my head, but maybe a little confusing since that's not how cars work (lol). That's why I tried to force it to happen, but it seems people tried to avoid it, which kind of ruins the tutorial on part 3. I'd either make this more clear (bumper cars?), or change it. As @Skorpyo stated, the time to read the text might have been a bit too short, I should have implemented a pause to remove confusion.

I had very mixed feedback on the controls. Some preferred the mouse, others the keyboard. I feel like most of the complaints would be solved with the snap feature, but I would probably also add custom speed settings so everyone can get a comfortable with the game. I agree @peredm, it does feel like it would work very well with touch controls.

@Jupiter_Hadley Thanks for taking the time to make a video about my game!

Sorry for the long post, and again, thanks everyone who took the time to comment, I read each one! It's very encouraging, and helps me improve the game if I do decide to continue working on it.

Zee, thanks for answering in the game entry! I'm glad that the polished version you found it much better, and the climbing key changing could be a nice idea, right now you just could use W or S (or arrow keys up and down) and we thought that was more intuitive, but your approach with the grab could actually work pretty well! I'll file that idea. cheers men and good luck with the results!