BeMused

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.63
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.96
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.52
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.76
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.41

BeMused: The Block-Swapping Paint-em-up


I would recommend going through the paintings until you find a relatively easy one - Mona Lisa or the Girl with the Pearl Earring are both excellent firsts!

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Game Genres: Bejeweled Clone & Painting game

This game is based on a long legacy of silly, short-burst Ludum Dare games with arbitrary rating systems.

Use the mouse to play. The timer will start when you swap your first block.

I'd love to see your attempts - tweet screenshots at @dixonary !

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Comments22

Iluvatar
Iluvatar23 Apr 2018, 09:21
Well, this is what I call being original. Challenging but fun. Love the combination of puzzle and art. Great job :)
Team Yarn23 Apr 2018, 11:34
Original and well implemented. I think you matched the theme quite well. Good job !
Flatterp24 Apr 2018, 15:59
This turned out really neat. Love the arbitrary rating system. Would like an option to continue playing after the timer, just to see my masterpiece to it's finish!
FussenKuh24 Apr 2018, 16:01
Gotta say, this is the first of such odd mash-ups I've come across. So, kudos for the original idea! My Mona Lisa ended up looking like complete crap after the timer ran out, but, it was fun to try to recreate the painting. That said, I would have loved to see what the 'correct/ideal' paintings are supposed to look like after I get done with my attempt to paint them. Well done!
SupremeKurt
SupremeKurt24 Apr 2018, 16:04
Wow! This is such a nice puzzle game.
Hezzy24 Apr 2018, 16:08
As sayed above, seeing our painting "finished" would have been really enjoyable !
dragonslumber
dragonslumber24 Apr 2018, 17:46
Excellent job! I really loved this, it actually solved problems a friend had when trying to make his own "art game". Huge thumbs up!
Jaime Paz Lopes
Jaime Paz Lopes24 Apr 2018, 22:55
this game is as hard as real painting hahahah i needed 4 tries to be satisfied with my mona lisa.
blobo
blobo25 Apr 2018, 01:58
Wow this was clever. I had a ton of fun with this, great work!
Jin9310
Jin931025 Apr 2018, 13:02
Found it very relaxing eventhough my first attempts were not really accurate :) Easy to get lost in time with this one. You made a really original game and I would be glad to see some expansion :P Great work!
Dixonary
Dixonaryauthor26 Apr 2018, 20:35
@LucasMolina It's classical music by Mozart and Chopin which has been in the public domain for a long time. :)
LucasMolina
LucasMolina26 Apr 2018, 21:36
Maybe you shouldn't be rated on Audio then. Just a suggestion.
JustinM26 Apr 2018, 21:36
It was fun!, not sure if I did well or poorly LOL. Great music choice and art, well done :)
Dixonary
Dixonaryauthor26 Apr 2018, 22:13
@LucasMolina it's a reasonable point.

I'm not expecting to do well in the Audio category anyway in terms of the competition. But Audio design (not specifically the music, but the overall audio production) is something I would like to get better at and it's nice to find out how well / not-well i'm doing at that, so the ratings are useful for me. if (by some fluke) I do quite well in that category then i'll ask Mike to N/A my rank after the fact. :)

For the same reason that I'm not opting out of "graphics" despite using "third-party" artworks.
OddballDave
OddballDave27 Apr 2018, 11:22
That was fun. Great idea, and very well executed. I could see something like this doing well on phones using the players photo album as the image source. Good stuff :8ball:
Hopeen
Hopeen27 Apr 2018, 12:54
Most unique game I have yet seen. It's way too challenging for me though. Great game overall.
NorthernHawk
NorthernHawk28 Apr 2018, 16:37
This game was so relaxing, stressful at the same time. Relaxing becouse moving the colors around to fit the painting felt great but stressful becouse the timer put me in a hurry each time I played. It is such an unusual game and I really liked that. Nice concept and great job!
cristiano.m.garcia
cristiano.m.garcia7 May 2018, 16:12
Great game to relax. It would be interesting at the end to make an effect by joining both sides. You could put some schematic tips. Congratulations for the game.

I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.

I hope you continue with the project.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape

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