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Night Cherry Blossom's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #1 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Audio | #1 | 4.250 | 4.250 |
| Graphics | #1 | 4.643 | 4.643 |
| Theme | #2 | 4.429 | 4.429 |
| Accessibility | #3 | 3.429 | 3.429 |
| Controls | #4 | 3.750 | 3.750 |
| Originality | #4 | 4.071 | 4.071 |
| Fun | #10 | 3.429 | 3.429 |
Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
v3.4.4-stable
Wildcards Used
Unusual Look
Game Description
Night Cherry Blossom is a puzzle game to restore symmetric mandala-like patterns by rotating the Penrose tiling. The game also features koto, a classical Japanese musical instrument as the main SFX.
How does your game tie into the theme?
The puzzle is based on mandala pattern and Penrose tiling which can create fivefold symmetry similar to flowers. The game features Japanese cultural with the famous sakura flower as the main art style.
Source(s)
N/A
Discord Username
Carras#0001, Noskire#9092
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
5
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Lovely janapese aesthetic. Really cool game and well made puzzles.
Wonderful game! Such polish. I will say I did have a little trouble with the puzzles due to the shifting lights.
This entry is insanely good! The colors, the visuals, the animations, the music and especially the sound effects when rotating the discs. Everything so beautiful on it's own and even more so together. Unbelievable that this was created in 9 days 😅
At some point I messed up a puzzle so hard I wished I had a reset button for the current level (still did it in the end though :D).
Well done! Congrats to this entry!
Loving the aesthetics!! Incredibly polished. I'm not the best at puzzle games, but had a good time with this regardless. Congrats on the great entry!
I love the aesthetics of this game very much! The transition used from the menu to the puzzles is very well executed! The artistry is both the visuals and the music are top notch! The controls were very simple and clear (even if I am really bad at puzzle games… must have been torture watching me fail so hard at that puzzle, lol)
Over all, I don’t think there was much about this game where I could even suggest improvement, it all fit and worked so well. I wouldn’t even be surprised if this were some paid product, it looks and plays so well.
Excellent work!!
beautifully polished. Really loved the art style and the puzzles were engaging.
Really amazing game. It's challenging and love the music / sound concept!
The polish is amazing, game looking really great. I also really enjoy the gameplay. Only issue I have been having is that it was hard to see the differences in the puzzle at glance, because of all the different colors and so much happening at once on the screen
this game is so pretty!
Hope that you enjoyed it!
Thanks to my team member Noskire taking the developer role so that I can focus on the art side without worrying too much on codings
I played the puzzle mode! I like the Japanese visuals and audio, very chilled vibe. I made it to level 3 but for the life of me I can't see my mistake, or I can't get the bit at the top to align.
I think a colour-blind or shapes mode might help me in particular. :)
Nice polished entry, well done!
Oh I've just noticed this new queuing system on Itch, I can't rate this at the moment and will have to come back I suppose. 🤔
Have rated now!
Swap these 2 and you are good to go!
Oh right, thank you! I thought there must be more to the game.. it wasn't obvious (to me at first) that any of the rotations overlapped and allowed moving of tiles over distances. First 2 levels didn't require this. :) I'll come back to it, cheers.
The game does not have other visual mode but I did consider some colour blind cases. Below is the colour palette I used and the simulations of some colour blindness.
True, and Trit. are best for me eyes. I don't know a lot about the theory behind it..
very impressive jam game! absolutely amazing! wow!
current jam mode high-score : 24490
That is a pretty high score for a beginner in jam mode! Congrats!
Jam mode can be more challenging in later rounds but sadly we were running out of time to design it further :(
i'm actually still amazed that you managed to include two different game modes! :)
Wow! What a challenge! I love the visuals and the audio. The sound effects fit the music and is really satisfying. This is a very unique entry. Great job!
I am glad that you notice it! I am using a Japanese pentatonic scale called "IN" Scale.
Pentatonic scale has a weird phenomenon that even you simply play the notes by going up or down the scale it will still sound nice as long as they are in the same key.
As a guitar player I can very much appreciate the pentatonic scale. :) Classic for Blues and Rock N Roll! I wasn't familiar with the "IN" scale. It sounds really nice and fits great with your game.
Basically, in C key: C D E♭ G A♭ C
This is the link in case you are interested :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_scale
Fantastic game, the patterns are sometimes a bit confusing, good thing that there's a preview of the level in the top right corner.
Thanks! Your game actually motivated me to work harder because you set the bar so high so early >_<