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Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.96
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.65
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.59
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.02
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.07
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.02
I wish you like the idea of this game.

This is a simple layer-sorting game, where you can adjust layer's depth to get different information to go to different story branches.

Comments13

Razdray7 Apr 2025, 00:28
Wow, a little sad, but I enjoyed the game, thanks!
busisen
busisen7 Apr 2025, 10:07
this is WAY deeper of a game than meets the eye. thought it would just be a basic layer sorting thing but damn. don't want to spoil it for anyone but I can say I really enjoyed it. great submission!
Yvanor
Yvanor9 Apr 2025, 08:39
I loved this game.

The use of the theme on several meanings is a smart idea (depths of layer, depths of story...)
Reordering the layers is actually satisfying, and I love the touch that the character tell himself regularly that he want to stop.

Thanks for providing the answers though, I got most of it myself but it was useful to finish up the details and allow me to see the whole game.

Thank you and great work !
dstoc
dstoc9 Apr 2025, 10:45
Interesting concept. I couldn't get quite get the right solution by myself, some of the differences were very subtle!
LeoAtopos
LeoAtoposauthor9 Apr 2025, 11:32
@dstoc Yeah, I took too much time on the concept, and no time for polishing, especially the difficulty. Thanks for your playing!
LDJam user 352490
LDJam user 3524909 Apr 2025, 20:49
Tried at first without looking at the solution, and I think there are enough good looking layer-orders that you'd probably want to use logical checks instead of direct lists (say, pass the player if "mountain" is behind "cat", "logo" is in front of "river", etc.). Otherwise, the art is a lot of fun to mess around with, and the dialogue is great, especially how it addresses us, the people playing through Ludum Dare games :)
Ryrumeli10 Apr 2025, 01:10
Wow. Mind blowing. Talk about innovation. Sorting layers in photoshop, the thing I always dread doing, playing with layers and them becoming different images with deeper meanings and interesting things? I could see a whole cozy game comming out of this layers concept. Extremely simple to implement engine-wise, works perfectly for the theme, and has this amazing potential if well refined. Seriously this is an awesome idea, probably one of the most innovative games I have seen here so far.
DiscoFish
DiscoFish10 Apr 2025, 05:31
So Lovely! Quite innovative. Amazing work!
oliver_day
oliver_day11 Apr 2025, 10:06
Very interesting idea. I just came from failing at 2 fast reaction games so this was a nice change.

Both times I tried I went to the same ending. Are there other endings?
LeoAtopos
LeoAtoposauthor11 Apr 2025, 11:19
@oliver-day Answers are in the discription below. Thanks for your playing.
YouCarryOats
YouCarryOats11 Apr 2025, 12:44
Great interpretation of the theme and nice, simple execution. I liked the multiple endings, too! Good stuff
grid96
grid9616 Apr 2025, 18:19
Interesting idea! I wonder what other theme you were rooting for ;)
LeoAtopos
LeoAtoposauthor18 Apr 2025, 04:33
@grid96 Is this showing what I was rooting for? I actually couldn't remember.

Glad that you like the idea. Thanks.

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