after the jam being over for awhile i remembered this game randomly and wanted to come back to it, just played all the levels again. i found myself redoing successful connections just so i could have a more elegant/optimized path. i really like the size of the spaces, it feels like the perfect balance of feeling free knowing there are multiple solutions and also feeling restricted and like you have to still be careful with all your moves and think ahead. i have never made any puzzle games so level designs like these are totally lost on me lol. nice job, i would be curious to know how you went about laying out the levels for this!
Really glad to hear you enjoyed it so much! Level design involved much more trial and error than it did planning. The first thing I did was outline the structure of the levels, so I decided how many bulbs and how big each box would be. The principle here was to ramp up the size of the box before increasing the number of bulbs, to create kind of a zigzag progression. From there I mostly just placed the bulbs and batteries randomly and played a lot. Having friends or family to try your puzzles is a big plus.