This was really fun! You took a bunch of otherwise simple sokoban mechanics and combined them in a way that felt novel and fresh. The end-of-level transitions look great too!
The "cancel" spell can be destroyed with the fire spell if you enter the trophy room while small. In this state, you can use small + bush to step over the trophy doors and cheat your way to the end.
Fun game, interesting concept. My only suggestion would be to get rid of the next turn button - just automatically advance to the next turn when moves are extinguished! Would improve the pace of play.
I really dig the look of the book! I could push it around all day. An idea: give the book some readable level-specific flavor text that can only be read when the player is facing a page while it is standing on its spine. Maybe sometimes that text would display upside down!
Haven't solved it yet, but I dig the idea! FYI, this game is still searchable. To fix that, go to https://itch.io/dashboard and select "Edit" for your game. Select "Visibility & Access" > "Public". In the "Public access settings" box, check "Unlisted in search & browse".
Two pieces of feedback before this launches for the calendar. First, I'd recommend adding checkpoints after each puzzle solve using the Puzzlescript CHECKPOINT command so players can restart each puzzle without resetting the entire thing. Second, I'd recommend increasing the viewport dimensions in your itch project settings. It's tiny right now!
When I started creating this, I tried to go that "something smarter" route, but I quickly found that I needed more specific implementations of crate types to allow for chained behaviors.
Thank you, I'm glad you like it! I'm proud of this game and its twists and learned a lot about PuzzleScript while making it. I don't know that I'll make a sequel (maybe a level pack?), but I'll definitely be making more PuzzleScript games in the future.
You (and anyone) are welcome to crack open the source code and make/share levels if you have ideas you'd like to explore.
In world 4, there are platforms that move when you shake your playdate. If you stand on one of those platforms, then shake the playdate, the platform will move out from underneath you. This will kill you and then crash the game. Crashing also triggers the "next" level unlock bug mentioned above.
As another piece of feedback, the crank inputs are too sensitive in this game. It is difficult to move a crank platform just one tile.
