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A jam submission

The First MouseView game page

Solve puzzles controlling a physics-based computer mouse.
Submitted by akita_engineer — 1 minute, 23 seconds before the deadline
Rated by 7 people so far
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Team members
akita_engineer - code and design

Software used
Love2D, Tiled

Use of the limitation
The mouse is your main character in this game. Not only you can do everything only with the mouse, the mouse itself in the world possesses more physical qualities.

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Submitted

Ok genuinely: This caught me off guard and I thought it was a pretty cool concept. There's something weird about seeing your cursor be able to push around boxes. It almost feels like there's more weight to it than normal, I can't quite explain it :-) 

Very cool. Building a box bridge made me feel smart. I like feeling smart.

But it was too short! I want more! :D 

Developer

Haha, thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Yes, the "weight" and physics of it was the feeling I was going for, even though I didn't have time to put in more. It's kind of an odd feeling like the mouse can't go across anything anywhere anymore like it's contained in some way.

Submitted

I used Firefox to play it, and the mouse cursor drags itself to the bottom right at all times so I had to fight the mouse cursor a bit. I'm not sure if it's a feature or a bug lol but as you noted to use Chrome as other browsers are untested, I thought as I don't have Chrome I'll test it on Firefox   (ノ´∀`)ノ lol

Very cool though, I like puzzle games, the third level was interesting and having the features you mentioned added to it in the future will make a nice fleshed out game experience

Developer(+1)

Haha thanks for testing anyways! What you're describing seems like a bug unfortunately and I think this is primarily due to Love.js, I don't know how battle-tested it is when it comes to mouse-lock on the window. Chrome works fine, but Safari has mouse being veery slow for example.

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I never made puzzle games before but I have some ideas for this project and I plan to flesh it out a bit more so it's not just a minute of gameplay XD

Submitted

Well done. It’s a bit awkward at first when your mouse doesn’t fully follow you as it normally does (cause i can get stuck on things) but once you get used to this it’s a fun little experience.

Developer

Thanks! Yes, making the mouse more "physical" was the intention here but unfortunately I ran out of time to really play around with the implications. Glad you enjoyed it!