This is a puzzle game where you need to keep all of your adventuring party alive to the exit. Pressing a direction will cause your currently selected character slide that way until they hit a wall, a comrade, or get killed.
I love the logic behind this game! It feels amazing to figure out the right order to move your pieces in. Great job on the game design, and I know it can't have been easy to make it all in time. Congrats!
I absolutely love this concept. For once, a puzzle game that left me feeling good. Art style is consistent and lovely, and there's obviously some potential for an expanded game here. Difficulty curve is good too. Very impressed! P.S. on itch.io, turn off their built-in fullscreen, it means there will only be one button to press. also, escape doesn't work to reset for me because of the browser.
This is the most fun and funniest game I've seen so far. I love the sounds :D They are a bit loud tho, I think you should lower by a little bit. The puzzles / maps are great, and there's a lot of content. Overall, a good game. I love your drawings, too .
This game is really good work, the instructions are so clear through the tutorial stages and immediately makes the player aware of their goal. The puzzles are really well designed, I'd love to see this concept fleshed out after this, could be a great little game.
Somehow you've managed to make a puzzle game that still feels like a dungeon crawler. You've taken the fun party management feel of RPGs and layered it on top of a slick puzzle game. I would buy this game if I found it on the app store
Thank you, everyone :) The falling noise is my 5 y/o daughter who grab my headset and recorded various sounds for me. Same with the monster (although that was run thorugh Audacity filters first).
Level design was pretty much: Think of a level title (not displayed, but it's things like "Crumbling Bridges") and sketch out the rough layout with walls aound that theme, starting with the end position or major puzzle bit (so for the bridges I sketched out the layout with the floor instead and expanded form there).
and I see people discovered my "secret" cheat code: 'N' for Next Level.
I really like such game mechanics, art is good. Puzzles are interesting, I even got stuck for a bit, but when you finally solving it, the feeling is great, Good job!
Ok, so i'm not a big fun of puzzle games, but this one it's truly special.
Simple concepts, nice mechanics fitting very well the jam's theme. The sounds and graphics are simple, but in a good way, fitting the game as a whole. Really good work.
I could make through all levels (proof below), needing to restart some of them to understand what i have to done and what i done wrong, but they all seems to have a nice difficulty to make them interesting.
This a great game!! I've been plaing for a while now and not bored. The sound effects I think make the game, they really add a funny layer to the gameplay :D
A satisfying puzzle game with a nice old school RPG feel, I really liked it! The gameplay was smooth and the different characters and elements were easy to tell apart from each other. I liked the character art, too! For a game jam game it was the perfect length, but with a few more tricks you could expand on this further if you wanted. One improvement could be, that when the player hits a button or activates a switch, because the effect is immediate and the player doesn't necessarily know where the effect is going to show, it can be quite easy to miss what the switch or button just did or activated. A few frames of animation or some visual aid could be nice.
This was fantastic. I played through all of it, and somehow found the last level to be the easiest. This could really be something to be honest. I'd polish the shit out of this game, add more levels, more characters, more puzzles and you might just have the next Candy Crush game on your hands.
Absolutely incredible, but this audio made my ears bleed (Volume was tooooo loud)
Great puzzling levels I had only one issue, this Esc to return to the menu... sometimes it means to restart the level and others to return to the menu... I was very far into the game and accidentaly pressed ESC when I died, I returned to the level 1, it made me quit... I was REALLY enjoying it but this kinda frustrated me :/
Hi! Thank you for rating my game! I wanted to check out what you made too c:
I never finished the game, I couldn't figure out how to get my knight in the front on this part:
However I think I have got a good taste of the game in the levels I actually finished.
Pros: I really like the concept, it's the ice puzzles from Pokémon taken to a whole new level since I have to think about all 3 of my party members. It also has some of the fun of those sliding puzzle games, where you know where you want a party member but have to figure out how to get it there. Overall, very fun, and I think the leveld design really shines through, and I didn't think there were too few levels, and all the levels I played had something new to bring. Well done! I also didn't find any bugs or problems!
Cons: However, the graphics and especially audio hold the game back a little for me. I (contrary to many others) think both those areas are very important, so sorry if I am a bit harsh (you were the sole developer though, kudos for making this all on your own!) The graphics, while simplistic give off a very MsPaint look, but it definately gets the job done. The audio however, while the ambience is nice the dying/killing sound effects are loud, harsh and are clipping.
I remember playing this kind of games in my childhood! It was great to see different characters in order to play with both to complete the level! You cou;d definitely add more and more levels and characters to this one!
Love this and love the way it makes you think. Reminds me of some of the games I used to play on Miniclip! Excellent how you didnt even need to explain what each character does because it gets engrained into the users head after a couple rounds. Very cool!
This was a lot of fun! The esc key was not the best choice as it is the same key for escaping the full screen in chrome. Meaning you would always have to hit it twice and then re-maximize the window.
The puzzles were not too easy but also not too hard. I would love an update with a few very hard levels. @ me if you ever release one. The new hand drawn concept art looks also absolutely beautiful :)
I'm impressed how many levels there are in this game! I feel like tutorials too are a rarity in game jams, so kudos for that. It reminds me of sliding puzzles from other games, but with a small twist. The music is understated and helps you concentrate on the puzzles. The sounds were kind of loud, especially the "BLUUHHH" one (even though I have to admit it made me laugh when I first heard it). I came here because I saw your post about changing the character styles and I think you should go for it -- this type of game would do really well on sites like Kongregate if you polished it up, added more levels, and made a nice title screen for it.
This was very good! The levels are very well-paced, with the first few levels simple but not boring, and the later puzzles are very well thought-out and interesting (I got stuck for a bit on the second-to-last one and almost quit there). I like the way you used the dnd character archetypes to give them all different powers. I also found the dying sounds very funny.
I beat it! The puzzles are at a good just hard enough difficulty. Positioning characters as walls for other characters is pretty clever. Some polish things to add could be an undo button. Overall nice job!
i like the idea, graphics, audio. but... i couldn't play it. escape and space work but i can't move the character. neither with arrow keys nor with wasd
@magus77 thanks for letting me know. For troubleshooting purposes, what browser and OS are you using? Do you have any problems with other Unity engine HTML games?
@amkingtrp w10 with latest chrome browser. on other pc it worked fine tho, also with w10 and chrome. i didn't have problems in other games. itch.io is especially great, they support unity games very well. i use them for hosting my games too.
Awesome game! The puzzles were really fun and the concept is great! Very well done! Only nitpick is I think the restart button should have been "R" instead of escape.
Well thought out logic. It took a bit before I realized that each character had a special skill. Once I figured that out the puzzles became even more fun to try to figure out.
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Very impressed!
P.S. on itch.io, turn off their built-in fullscreen, it means there will only be one button to press. also, escape doesn't work to reset for me because of the browser.
I love the sounds :D
They are a bit loud tho, I think you should lower by a little bit.
The puzzles / maps are great, and there's a lot of content.
Overall, a good game.
I love your drawings, too .
I'm curious how did you design levels. I made a puzzle game too, it's not easy to design levels.
PS: N is so close to SPACE XD
Overall very nice, even though soundeffects and graphics could be a little more atmospheric.
great job!
The falling noise is my 5 y/o daughter who grab my headset and recorded various sounds for me. Same with the monster (although that was run thorugh Audacity filters first).
Level design was pretty much:
Think of a level title (not displayed, but it's things like "Crumbling Bridges") and sketch out the rough layout with walls aound that theme, starting with the end position or major puzzle bit (so for the bridges I sketched out the layout with the floor instead and expanded form there).
and I see people discovered my "secret" cheat code: 'N' for Next Level.
Simple concepts, nice mechanics fitting very well the jam's theme. The sounds and graphics are simple, but in a good way, fitting the game as a whole. Really good work.
I could make through all levels (proof below), needing to restart some of them to understand what i have to done and what i done wrong, but they all seems to have a nice difficulty to make them interesting.
Excellent job!
Fun and cleaver game!
The sound effects I think make the game, they really add a funny layer to the gameplay :D
Great puzzling levels
I had only one issue, this Esc to return to the menu... sometimes it means to restart the level and others to return to the menu...
I was very far into the game and accidentaly pressed ESC when I died, I returned to the level 1, it made me quit... I was REALLY enjoying it but this kinda frustrated me :/
Awesome game ^^
I never finished the game, I couldn't figure out how to get my knight in the front on this part:
However I think I have got a good taste of the game in the levels I actually finished.
Pros: I really like the concept, it's the ice puzzles from Pokémon taken to a whole new level since I have to think about all 3 of my party members. It also has some of the fun of those sliding puzzle games, where you know where you want a party member but have to figure out how to get it there. Overall, very fun, and I think the leveld design really shines through, and I didn't think there were too few levels, and all the levels I played had something new to bring. Well done! I also didn't find any bugs or problems!
Cons: However, the graphics and especially audio hold the game back a little for me. I (contrary to many others) think both those areas are very important, so sorry if I am a bit harsh (you were the sole developer though, kudos for making this all on your own!)
The graphics, while simplistic give off a very MsPaint look, but it definately gets the job done. The audio however, while the ambience is nice the dying/killing sound effects are loud, harsh and are clipping.
The puzzles were not too easy but also not too hard. I would love an update with a few very hard levels. @ me if you ever release one. The new hand drawn concept art looks also absolutely beautiful :)
I like the way you used the dnd character archetypes to give them all different powers.
I also found the dying sounds very funny.
i didn't have problems in other games. itch.io is especially great, they support unity games very well. i use them for hosting my games too.