The Tail of the Serpent

by le-slo
Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.22
Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.11
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.19
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.90
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.93
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Little puzzle game where the snake body is the solution.

You are what you eat.

Enjoy!

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Disclaimer: The web version takes you to the level selection menu instead of the next level because HTML5. The original version (Windows) does let you play all the levels in sequence without having to access the level selection menu.

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Comments33

lidborn30 Apr 2019, 09:32
What a cool game!!!!!! Well done! Best ive tried so far of all the LD games
squaredev
squaredev30 Apr 2019, 13:03
Nice spin on the classic Snake game and nice way to incorporate the theme! Well done.
Argon
Argon30 Apr 2019, 13:31
This game is so cool ! Nice job for packing up gameplay, audio and graphics at the same time !
Reality Blind
Reality Blind30 Apr 2019, 13:33
Very cool concept, I was also really impressed when I saw that there's 25 levels 😮 I've tried a couple but I will definitely keep the game to continue later on, great job!
CarlosPidox
CarlosPidox30 Apr 2019, 14:03
As usual, Le Slo makes another great puzzle game! I really like how level 5 teaches the player the mechanic of splitting up the body, It's a great example of a textless tutorial.
I'm about halfway there, the puzzles are challenging, but never get frustrating. Good job! :smiley:
antvelm
antvelm30 Apr 2019, 14:36
Interesting worm game twist
Supernapie30 Apr 2019, 20:49
I am at level 18 for the moment. Lots of cool ideas in there :)
tinykidtoo
tinykidtoo30 Apr 2019, 23:44
Wow great use of level design to teach the player how each mechanic works. Excellently done. Unfortunately I got stuck on some of the body splitting levels, it was not a task I could quite wrap my mind around.
CharlesSchar
CharlesSchar30 Apr 2019, 23:58
Very impressive! The snake mechanic has a lot of complexity to it, resulting in some genuinely difficult puzzles.
johanhelsing
johanhelsing1 May 2019, 08:21
Very original mechanics, haven't seen something like this before.

I like how the levels build up and let you discover each new trick gradually. Nicely done!

Graphics also look cool and the audio is great.
pleyad1 May 2019, 10:56
What an amazing game! Captivating and tricky puzzles as I have never played them before. Wow! :snake: :thumbsup:
Erilhir1 May 2019, 11:51
Wow ! Level design is perfect, difficulty increases gradually and all levels are brilliantly designed. I enjoyed music and graphics. Good job !
Echo GameWorks
Echo GameWorks1 May 2019, 11:55
Really good job on a polished game. Smart idea for the mechanics and I really liked the background music. Also, your rampup in difficulty and teaching the player was great. I'd recommend increasing the snake move speed a bit. Other than that, great work!
Sanguis1 May 2019, 17:34
Great level design. I was not able to finish the game - not good at puzzle games, but like the idea.
GRaAL
GRaAL1 May 2019, 20:37
I like puzzles! This is very good one. But I need to say it is not obvious from start that you may bite off the tail.
The graphics and musics fit the game ideally.
ant33310002 May 2019, 02:52
I love the puzzle aspect its very fun however, from the first couple of levels im not really seeing the your life is currency theme. But Other than that Great Game!
sylvie
sylvie2 May 2019, 02:53
Pretty interesting puzzle game! I didn't have the patience to work through all the levels but it was clear that a lot of thought was put into them.
Fenderbate
Fenderbate2 May 2019, 13:34
Well put together game, maybe it a bit hard, but still fun.
shulololo
shulololo3 May 2019, 01:21
This is a pretty awesome puzzle game! Kind of cool that you could leave parts of your tail behind and use it to solve the puzzles. Sometimes I had a hard time wrapping my head around which parts of the tail would get cut off but that's just a small bump in the road. Overall I enjoyed the game, great job!
tapehead
tapehead3 May 2019, 14:21
Wow! This is a great puzzle game! I was not able to finish it yet, but i will definitely finish it later!
Zorg
Zorg3 May 2019, 19:44
This is great!
Charu4 May 2019, 12:20
Really cool puzzles! Loved how understanding the puzzles was so intutive (not the solution but how they work)without anything needed to explain.
Alienplay4 May 2019, 15:02
Mechanic is awesome! I love how you explain everything only by using level design. Also, I like the music and sound design. The one thing I had a problem with sometimes is that I'd move a few tiles, all at once, if I hold the button. Maybe add some wait time after each input. Other than that, it's a very cool game! :thumbsup:
christina-antoinette-neofotistou
So clean!! The puzzle design was so elegant and intuitive. I liked the levels a lot. And your presentation is killer! Even the level selection was juicy. Kudos!!!!
AfroAnt
AfroAnt4 May 2019, 17:23
Finally beat it! Fantastic puzzle game. It really racked my brain. Some puzzles I tried brute forcing, which never worked. I had to think out the solution each time. The sound effects were spot on. And I appreciated the restart key being so fast and painless. You can punch this up with some better graphics and light-weight animations. Definitely worth exploring into building a full game. Great job!
kyavi
kyavi4 May 2019, 19:54
wow i LOVE this, soooo so much! amazingly polished and fantastic core mechanics and level design. super super well done
jjjjason
jjjjason4 May 2019, 21:01
You thought it was a snake, but it was actually the ouroboros.

I love how forgiving the movement is. There are a lot of movements that you can't make in traditional snake, but which you allow for here due to the puzzle nature. There wasn't ever a time where it "felt" like I should be able to do something but wasn't.
goerp5 May 2019, 12:09
It's already a pretty complete package I think. The graphics are great and all go together and the atmospheric music is nice but doesn't annoy after hearing it for a long time (trying to solve the puzzles).
I'm not yet at the point where I feel I really get the the mechanics. There are still levels I solve by accident.
But very very nice game.
pl4typus
pl4typus5 May 2019, 20:57
Awesome game. I never give my ratings but this is a complete 5 stars for me.

Some good points:
- the mechanic, simple to understand but difficult to master
- the awesome art direction, graphics and music really act together to display a very nice puzzly ambiance
- the quality of life features, the Z button, the possibility to do every level in the order we like
- the level design and progression, smooth, we learn by trying and doing instead of being teached, well done
- the game feel, I eventually began to thought of myself as a real snake and began thinking "the snake way", figuring out how I could manage my body structure and playing with it was very cool

Some notes:
- The second half of the game maybe feels a bit like another game (almost a big truck simulator where you need to park backwards :O)
- I figured the trick for levels 16+ quite early: that's the good point when your game mechanic is super clean.
- I feel like there was a bit of not knowing where you were going with levels ~8-15 as I felt they were of inequal difficulty. I managed to do some of them very easily while others were really hard.
- the few last levels really stand out for me: they're interesting, diverse, use about all the abilities we've learn and teach/ask us to rethink them under a new light, great stuff.
- the last level was weirdly easy

One question:
- how do you come up with your levels? Is it mainly by designing a mechanic and then testing a bunch of things?

Really, man. Brilliant.
see ya
neguse
neguse6 May 2019, 05:52
Awesome puzzle game!
Kaisean Games6 May 2019, 08:22
I will not write much, I will just say that you deserve to win 😊
Awesome game!

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