Jump, Push, Match

by elgregos

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.05

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.95

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.60

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.60

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.79

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.36

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.77

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Here we go for a mix of match-4 (think Puyo Puyo) and platformer.

Just use left & right keys to move, up to jump, and C to push tiles.

Press Enter for some help:
- Stuck on current level? Choose "Restart level"!
- Oh, you meant "Stuck" like "This level is too difficult"? Choose "Next level"!
- Want more levels, graphics, visual effects, music? Sorry folks, that all I could do in 3 days! But who can be sure there won't be any post-jam version? Nobody. Not even me.

Tags: #8-bit, #match-4, #pico-8

Genres: platformer, puzzle

Tools: PICO-8

Comments17

lonewookie24 Apr 2018, 03:57

Really enjoyed playing this! Smooth controls and challenging puzzles!

Dixonary24 Apr 2018, 16:30

This game plays really well and the puzzles are interesting. I might have at some point accidentally held down X and skipped right to "Well done!" ;)

ElGregosauthor24 Apr 2018, 18:00

Well, that was in my "Things to remove before submiting game" list, and of course I forgot this one 😅. It's now corrected on the playable game, thanks @dixonary!

Rombus25 Apr 2018, 04:50

Nice job on this one, love the puzzles and the game feels well polished.

BTW I like how you changed the html export to have that shadow :P

Congrats on the entry!

ElGregosauthor25 Apr 2018, 21:03

Thanks @rombus! The HTML template is made by ultrabrite, you can take it here: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=31000. Btw I wonder how did you add that "Remap" button on yours ;).

Rombus26 Apr 2018, 00:01

Oh awesome! Thanks, I'll check it out!
haha that's a really cool feature I got from here: https://github.com/codl/pico-nfig
On my game "Monster love" I even changed the default config to be wasd instead of arrow keys (on the html export) using that lib

Matoux4227 Apr 2018, 18:31

Wow

Really good game !
I'm too lazy (and not enough patient) to finish the game, but it is great !

differentname29 Apr 2018, 23:13

Great ideas and very challenging puzzles. I'm grateful for the "Next level" option.

ElGregosauthor1 May 2018, 13:27

Thanks @differentname! I hope more games used that option. If you can't finish a level, there are no reasons it should prevent the player to try the next ones.

Yashpal1 May 2018, 13:47

It's really great puzzle game.

SFX & Puzzle are great.

I really need think before move.

Flatgub3 May 2018, 19:39

Super cute, I really liked the puzzles!

ElGregosauthor3 May 2018, 21:43

Thanks @flatgub! I wish I had time to add more levels though. But chances are high there will be a post-jame version!

Ballin5 May 2018, 14:31

Awesome, haven't played a puzzle game in a while and this one is really nice. I was going to complain about having to go through all the levels again when I got stuck on one and had to reset, but then I read the comments and found out there's a menu with "Reset Level" and "Next level" :( :D (the menu doesn't appear when you click the pause button in non-fullscreen mode). Anyway, great work!

randomhuman7 May 2018, 10:03

Some of these puzzles are really tough, but as a result very satisfying when you figure them out! I did also skip a few though, because I am dumb. I really love the cute character animation and melodic footstep sounds. Great game overall!

Paulo Brunassi9 May 2018, 12:52

This is hard!!! But awesomely done.One of the best entries I played on this LD. Well done.

Jin93109 May 2018, 15:26

So far perhaps one of the hardest things I have found among the entries. It would be great if the would build up on the difficulty, or perhaps I just suck :-D Or perhaps it is intended, and in that case, everything is ok. Really like the art style with minimalistic sounds. Great job!

ElGregosauthor10 May 2018, 09:36

@paulo-brunassi @jin9310 Thanks for enjoying the game! Levels 5 to 8 are a bit hard indeed, it quickly jumps as I only had time for 10 levels, but there will be 32 in the post-jam version. Glad I added that "Next level" option though ;)

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