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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Trolling | #1 | 4.250 | 4.250 |
| Game Mechanics | #4 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Art and Graphics | #5 | 3.750 | 3.750 |
| Sounds and Music | #5 | 2.250 | 2.250 |
Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I do like these puzzles that let folks flex on esoteric knowledge.
As it turned out, I figured out what to do pretty quickly for hard mode, but even then was too afraid to actually try lest my thought process be incorrect. The blend of elements here also makes esoteric knowledge a burden just as much as it helps! Gems have weird rules with pushing/crushing. Duplicators mean you can play with the stat order of what's on screen, and crushing things can have weird effects if the element crushed is earlier in the stat list which sent me on a wild goose chase thinking there might be some way to use all these to destroy the key somehow.
Honestly I was even wondering if the colors of the sliders was in some way relevant!
Gave an extra star in sounds because you're not the one to blame for duplicator sound effects.
I beat the game on Easy, but I think I broke the duplicator on Medium. XD (That’s on me, I forgot how they work in ZZT. =p)
I don’t think I’m smart enough to figure out Hard Mode ;_;
I did like the pretty door at the end of Medium difficulty though! ^_^
Thanks :-)
Duplicators can be quite trolly in their own right, yes!
Woof! This is very hard! Especially since I didn't know about black keys before playing this. I managed to beat easy and medium but hard is just killer.
I wonder how long a TAS of very hard mode on max speed running natively on modern hardware would be.
Let's do a rough calculation: you need to do a certain thing 65k times. Let's say max speed lets you do it ten times a second. Then it would be just short of two hours :-)