What do you think you were getting stuck on? I’m looking for ways to make it easier to learn since people seem to be getting stuck pretty quickly.
Hmmm, that's difficult.
I think that one of the problems is that people don't often encounter a mechanic like this, it's pretty unique. That might be it's strength and it's curse, because since I wasn't used to it, it wasn't intuitive to play at first. I got the rhythm of the game eventually, but it took a while.
Something that might have helped me was if there was a tutorial section, where you have very simple levels displaying the basic mechanics, such as the spinning (which was very cool, congrats) and getting used to the pushing, and possibly a combination of both. At the end there might be a slightly more complex level, which would get ppl ready for the real levels.
I'm really not a game developer, so idk much at all, but it seems to me that the difficulty ramp was very sudden. Maybe if you
smoothed it out a bit, and took it tiny steps at a time, it might be easier for ppl to grasp.
EDT: I read some of your comments below, and I totally get why you'd want to make it more of a discovery thing, it was definitely very satisfying for me when I figured it out. So, idk really. I've just put my two cents out there, hope it's helpful
Thanks for the game!! :)
Thanks for the feedback! I did upload version 1.3, which splits 1 of the earlier levels into 3, so hopefully that helps a bit more.
One of the things I love about these styles of puzzle games is the discovery of how the mechanics work … Which might be a bit of the game’s downfall. Where most games usually show the gameplay or selling point up front.
Since this was for a game jam, I didn’t have that much time for testing. Though for the little that there was, people were struggling a bit. Unfortunately, I’m working in pico8 and decided to limit it to a single “cart”. There probably isn’t much more that I can do to fix the tutorial issue.
I do somewhat envision expanding this into a full game. Though definitely will get more testing if I attempt to.