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Hmmm… yeah, on a second listen, you’re probably right. It’s just that the ostinato is the most distinct part of the song(s) for me. I guess that’s what pattern recognition does to a person.

*blushes in not-a-Monkeytype-player* Why thank you :)

Assist options are probably something I could have done pretty easily, actually. I had considered adding a option to stop time when you press Tab, but I never got around to it... like sound... and a proper tutorial... a lot of things.

Dude, I literally NEVER would have thought to use Navmesh for wire routing! I probably would have wasted two days trying to implement a physics wire sim, only to scrap it and have electricity be "transmitted wirelessly". Well done!

FEZ REFERENCE SPOTTED

I have no idea where you found that track, but that music is definitely a remix of Adventure by Disasterpeace.

Wow, I'm really sorry about the power outage. That's awful. I hope it came back on soon after.

I think I saw what you were going for, though. I noticed that I was able to open the plan in the middle of execution. Not sure if this is a bug, but if it's a feature, I think that maybe part of the game was going to involve stopping the code while it was executing and changing around the parameters. Just a guess, but cool if correct!

Good work! I did the looping code thing too, just a lot less elegantly.

I love the little audio detail you put into the grass! I really need to start adding sound to my games...

I considered doing something like this, but I passed it up for something more complicated because I didn't think it would make for very interesting gameplay. Sure enough, you have 100% proven me wrong; thinking in looped space is actually really tricky!

Great puzzle! It took me a bit to figure out the game mechanic happening at the bottom, but when I pieced it together it blew me away! I literally said "oh my god, it's Tetris" out loud (it wasn't Tetris).

I will now proceed to lose 3 hours of sleep tonight thinking about what where the secret circumcircular octahedron was hidden...

I LOVE THE UNHINGED MIDDLE SCHOOLER VOICE CHAT

Honestly, you guys deserve more ratings. This was so much fun!

Nice! I really like these kinds of games! The one thing I felt was missing was an indicator of where each instrument would start, since I like to be able to plan out my route early on, instead of making a guess and hoping for the best. Still very satisfying, though! The reverbed "NO" whenever I tried to go back too far made me laugh.

Oh no! Curse you, HTML5, and your endless inconsistencies!

Yeah, there are a lot of little things that text editors let us do that we take for granted. In retrospect, there’s a lot I would have added, like the DEL key and the CTRL functions (undo, cut, paste).

Hello, there. :) Should've figured I wasn't the only one.

I had some trouble putting the blocks together, but well done getting the drag and drop to work! I speak from experience that that is not easy.

That tiny blue door on the floor is such a tease, dude. I can feel my brain overheating. Great game, great music, impossibly good level design. Like, how do you even start to make a level like that?

Really neat concept! However, as neat a puzzle it is, the fact that you have to backtrack really bogs it down. In fact, most games run in circles trying to figure out how to minimize backtracking. I spent most of the play time just struggling to jump on a box while lagging, waiting for the door open/close cutscene to finish, and forgetting which door takes me back to the previous room. The game looks wonderful, and I could definitely see myself playing a full version of this, but there are a lot quality of life improvements that would have to be made.

<sigh> I wish I knew how to scope my games well... Really clever! I love the way the Rulemaker just concedes. It's not mad, just really, really confused.

Ah, yeah. Sorry about that. That's something I was concerned about when making this game. I didn't know if my own ability to type would skew my sense of difficulty. But yes, your impression is entirely correct. At it's most basic, it is a timing  and typing speed challenge.

If you're stuck because of this, here's a few tips: 

• Type "#" to comment out a segment of code; this allows you to pre-write a command, and then delete the comment marker and save.
• Hold CTRL when using Backspace or the Arrow keys; if you use Google Docs or Microsoft Word enough, you know how this works.
• If worst comes to worst, you can type "north east", "south west", etc. to move diagonally.
• If you softlock yourself somehow, CTRL+R resets the level.

The convoluted dev exit joke at the end got to me. I used to do that a lot :)

After having lived a good, full life as a dog, the first thing I am asked to as a human is to decide whether I "hypothetically" want to be my favorite vegetable. Such is life I suppose :)

Still waiting to hear what door I opened with that key...

Seriously, though, this had me smiling the whole way through! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make it to end because of a bug stopped me from progressing, but what I did see was great!

Nice game! I had I little trouble getting the ball rolling (literally, not figuratively), but otherwise the game played pretty smoothly! I like to think that all the people in the chat are actually other people (or representations of other people) who helped you, but whether or not that's true, I hope you had fun making it!

Really fun and blood-pumping! I had a little trouble picking up objects and moving them to the inventory, but the visual clarity of everything in the game is incredible. Great work!

I've developed a frustrated relationship with D&D and TTRPGs in general from playing for a few years with a group I feel doesn't want me there. It was fun in certain moments, but otherwise I was left feeling entirely inadequate, regardless if I was a player or a DM. I decided I'd stop going a few months ago, and I haven't touched TTRPGs since. 

After playing this though, it brought back some of the joy in planning and thinking through dungeons and encounters. Trying and failing over and over to get the player through while also providing a challenge kind of desensitized myself to failure. It helps that you wrote the player's dialogue to be the friendliest, most patient, most engaged player than anyone I've ever met. I kind of want to try playing or running a game again after playing this. Thanks a lot!

Very well polished game! I love seeing the different ways people play with the theme; I had assumed it meant the player swapping roles with the obstacles, but there's just so much else that can be done with it.

I really like this level design philosophy of "here's a few constraints, there is no one solution." I know there are lots of games that get designed like this, but man, there REALLY need to be more games that get designed like this. Great work!

This looks fantastic! The timer system feels antithetical to the relaxing vibes a Pokemon Center has, and I feel like I should be able to put potions back if I dropped them but didn't use them, but the rest of the game looks and plays woderfully! Great work!

After the first level, it took me back to the main menu, and I wanted to cry. Turns out I just hit the Main menu button instead of Next level. God, I love spatial puzzles way more than I have any right to. Great work!

Try hitting space.

Nice job! I, as per usual, forgot to read the notes at the bottom, so I was really confused as to how this was "roles reversed" until I died, which ended up being a really enjoyable twist. When I was planning  for this, I wasn't able to come up with a role-reversal that didn't somehow involve an AI agent taking the place of the player, but after playing this, I'm realizing that it wasn't necessarily the player's agency that had to be reversed, rather just some property that traditionally belongs to the player (in your case, it was the player's upgrade system going to the world, and the world's randomization system going to the player). Even if to you this seemed obvious, I think that was really well thought out!

I think something that the game is lacking in is readability: in order to make this sort of game work, the player has to be able to connect points on the map to the current room, and because they can only access one or the other at any given time while playing, they need to be able to remember the room layout. Here's the problem: if it weren't for the enemies and barriers, all of the rooms would be completely identical. 

The simplest change I think you can make to fix this to add small cosmetic alterations to each of the rooms, sort of like what you're doing with the barrier blocks already. Easier said than done, of course; I know how confusing procedural generation can be, even in its simplest form. The fact that you pulled off a functioning procedural generation algorithm in under forty-eight hours, and, at least from what it sounds like, you've never attempted something like this before. Great job!

This was a really neat little game :) I'm glad I wasn't the only one to try the "develeoper instead of the player" idea; I was curious to see how to you exectued on it, and I think it reads way better than mine did! If you think about it, each edit to the game is like a branching level, so I could easily see this as becoming a full game given enough time. Great work!

Before anyone asks: no, this will not actually crash or damage your computer. I'm not that bad at iterating while loops.

Short, simple, and at the same time, surprisingly and terrifyingly complex; that's my kind of game.

You stumped me with the third ending, though. I feel like the hints for the last ending are just not complete enough, but they kept me busy trying out ideas for a solid 15 minutes. Great work!

Thanks for the feedback! We did trade quality for quantity a little during the final hours, and I'm a pretty poor judge of difficulty, so I'll be sure to keep an eye on these sorts of things in the future.

Man, this game had me smiling like an idiot the whole way through (even thjough I was playing by myself)! The SFX are so juicy, and everything looks so clean aesthetically (I really need to try using vector graphics in my games). Great job!

Thanks! Actually, if you're referring to the weird floor tiles that keep showing up, I used those sprites when writing the code to focus of the mechanical aspects of play before uploading any sprite work, but I had so much stuff to add that I just ended up keeping them like that.

Yeah, pacing the game wasn't something I had time for. Hope what you played of it was fun, though!

Yeah, I remember working on a project like this: those illusions are not trivial. Nice that you managed to pull it off without any detrimental bugs.

If you want some pointers on visuals, first off, there's nothing wrong with monochrome. What you have here is a nice starting point, but it feels a little flat, and not because you're using an orthographic camera. What I mean is that from the way the game appears there is very little meaning to be made of it. That's part of what visual identity is: extracting meaning from visuals. 

To establish the vibe you already have, one of abstract calm, you could add some dark grey background objects and elements. These could be unity primitives like lines, cubes, or spheres, or they could be more complex shapes or other cool impossibilities like the Necker cube. These objects could slowly rotate/float against the black backdrop, just to give the space some motion. 

Since you're using Unity, there are a few tools that could actually help you. Particles are useful for giving a sense of atmosphere, literally; particles help encode what the air is like in the space. Slow wandering point particles could resemble dusty air, floating wispy clouds show humidity, faster curvy lines show wind. Particles can also be used to show the weather, like rain or snow. Bloom is a also neat tool I would use here; it's a post-processing effect that can emphasize light by layering a little blur over the screen to give a glow effect to anything bright. If you're struggling with aesthetics, definitely learn how to use Unity's particle system and post-processing (they make anything look 1000 times better as long as you don't overdo it).

If you need some inspiration, look up some abstract art from Frank Lloyd Wright. I get that the designs might be a bit too complex for this, but I think they're a good starting point for some neat shapes that compliment what you currently have. Also, if you're interesting in making abstract game art yourself, learn to use Inkscape. I think it's really good for making abstract, geometric art.

Hope this helped! Best of luck!

Nice game! It was hard to track what was going on mechanically, but I understood enough to have some fun. Good work!

I've seen a lot of games like this, but all of them are on a 2d plane with no changes in elevation. I bet getting the programming down on this one alone was rough, but a stroger visual identity would do it a great service. Gives me monument valley vibes, really neat!

i am so happy to hear there are other artists out there like escher