This is a very unique twist to me, its sort of like a puzzle game that puts you on a timer, but it just gets more difficult as time goes on, not exactly impossible. I got so close the second try I gave it in my video, had 2 keys done and the third in hand, but after you get so small, you start to slip through things apparently. It's the 3rd game of my 3 indie games video. Very fun game, but you'd think a scientist would know what a coffee pot is, lol.
Don't know if it's a bug, but I'm pretty sure the game is cheating me by just not spawning one of the ingredients I need to complete the game. I played like 5 times, only completed 1, the rest of the time one of the ingredients just didn't exist. One time I'm pretty sure it spawned an ingredient in a cabinet later into the round, I'd already checked everything over like 5 times and then suddenly it was there, but too late for me to win.
Also, even when it works, sometimes the RNG will just give you a bunch of formulas only using like 2 of the machines so the game just becomes a bunch of waiting and you have no way to improve your score. It's a cool concept but maybe needs more machine options and some safeguards against RNG that wrecks any chance to get a good score. If you had more machines and a bigger lab you could also have extra ingredients you don't need and decoy formulas that take you in the wrong direction, that would contribute some much needed gameplay variety.
There's always all the ingredients you need--however, there are some hiding spots that are very easy to overlook: Always make sure to check the shelves and inside the locker
But yeah, you can definitely get unlucky with the RNG and how it assigns the machines!
I was checking inside the cabinets and locker first thing on every run. I did later find a bottle hiding behind a box on the shelf so maybe I'd been consistently missing them there? I'm still unsure about the late spawn though, I swear I checked every container multiple times and then suddenly there it was, in a cabinet
super fun game but for some reason when I completed the formula the game stopped. I could still move and walk around and I stopped shrinking but never got the "You Win" screen and the "I've stopped shrinking... How do I get bigger?" text never popped up
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This is a very unique twist to me, its sort of like a puzzle game that puts you on a timer, but it just gets more difficult as time goes on, not exactly impossible. I got so close the second try I gave it in my video, had 2 keys done and the third in hand, but after you get so small, you start to slip through things apparently. It's the 3rd game of my 3 indie games video. Very fun game, but you'd think a scientist would know what a coffee pot is, lol.
Don't know if it's a bug, but I'm pretty sure the game is cheating me by just not spawning one of the ingredients I need to complete the game. I played like 5 times, only completed 1, the rest of the time one of the ingredients just didn't exist. One time I'm pretty sure it spawned an ingredient in a cabinet later into the round, I'd already checked everything over like 5 times and then suddenly it was there, but too late for me to win.
Also, even when it works, sometimes the RNG will just give you a bunch of formulas only using like 2 of the machines so the game just becomes a bunch of waiting and you have no way to improve your score. It's a cool concept but maybe needs more machine options and some safeguards against RNG that wrecks any chance to get a good score. If you had more machines and a bigger lab you could also have extra ingredients you don't need and decoy formulas that take you in the wrong direction, that would contribute some much needed gameplay variety.
There's always all the ingredients you need--however, there are some hiding spots that are very easy to overlook: Always make sure to check the shelves and inside the locker
But yeah, you can definitely get unlucky with the RNG and how it assigns the machines!
I was checking inside the cabinets and locker first thing on every run. I did later find a bottle hiding behind a box on the shelf so maybe I'd been consistently missing them there? I'm still unsure about the late spawn though, I swear I checked every container multiple times and then suddenly there it was, in a cabinet
super fun game but for some reason when I completed the formula the game stopped. I could still move and walk around and I stopped shrinking but never got the "You Win" screen and the "I've stopped shrinking... How do I get bigger?" text never popped up
Great game! Will review on my TikTok account in the coming days. You really made me sweat 😅