I am extremely fond of this. It's my personal pic for fav in the jam after playing all of them. Fantastic work! Definitely gives me some VVVVVV overworld vibes, which isn't a bad thing as i consider that one of my favourite games. You've managed to do an awful lot with the theme, and game with the allotted time. The movement is lovely, the theme is wonderful. The mechanics are great. Great work!
One of my favourite games from the jam. It's a very lovely idea. It was made a bit easier by knowing the shapes of the constellations from memory, but still a lovely idea! Perhaps it would be nice to see it extended to some fictional or lesser known constellations to aid with that? Great work!
Huge thanks! I'm glad you like it. In the version we submitted for the game jam there's 12 unique custom levels spread over 4 visual themes, and then each visual theme can have randomised layouts too.
Oooh, I think i see what you're doing! I assume you're moving entirely in diagonal movements on the keyboard which isn't required for you to do
We should have made it more clear during the tutorial, but pressing "up "on the controller moves you north east, pressing "down" moves you south west, "left" moves you north west, and "right" moves you south east. On analogue sticks this isn't the case and you have to use it as you would perhaps expect.
Responding to people's comments we have got a build of the game where the camera is slightly off the isometric view, which would hopefully make it a bit more intuitive, but updating that during the game jam felt a little bit unfair, so we'll do that after the fact. The character not facing in the correct direction on entirely diagonal inputs on the other hand is a bug.
That's interesting! Curiously what type of controller were you using? I tend to play it with keyboard or a dpad, and even with analog sticks we lock into 8 directions to prevent the player getting snagged on walls and such.
Whichever method you are using it should just move in the direction you are facing. Thanks!
Lovely aesthetic! I struggled with the gameplay some. It could do with some visual / audio feedback to let you know when enemies spawn and also when you manage to deflect things, and also when you can't use it due to cooldown.
Interesting! The use of the skunk in a colourless world is a nice one! The ending felt like a soft lock assuming that was the ending. but lovely concept! Tab is a strange key to use when playing with wasd controls. As soon as I changed to cursor keys it was better.
Really cute idea, but things snapping back all the time is a bit frustrating! I get that sometimes it seems to be because it's an invalid placement but it would probably be better to signify that in a different way.
The maze shifting and changing as the game progressed was something we were really striving for with this! We really wanted to allow players to block each other in, or take them further away from their goal, but never in a way that felt too frustrating. We're very pleased with what we came up with! And thank you! It was a very intense and focused week or so, but I really enjoyed working on it!
Mani took care of the multiplayer handling of controllers and such. I handled more of the single player bot AI, as we really wanted to include both! Especially as we felt most people playing the game for the game jam are most likely to be just playing it solo, even if we were trying to make something which was more focused on multiplayer.
The shifting mechanics was a tag team, effort which ended up working really nicely! Thank you very much!
That character is such a cutie! Very interesting concept i just feel this game could really do with controller support. I kept finding myself doing all kinds of weird windows shortcuts with the controls here.
Great work! It's a super cute character, and a good theme. It took me a long time to realise that you could go through the doors. I just ended up finding that out by accident in the end. Also some more feedback to say you've completed the level or such.
Huge thanks! Hoop/King Civet did an outstanding job with the art direction for the game. Maniko and I came up with the concept for the game play and gave them full control over that, and they did a wonderful job with it!
That could be just from having a large monitor, whoops While 7 by 7 is our default grid size there's a bunch of different maps in different sizes, which zoom the camera in further!
