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This is an escape room puzzle game about programming and art.

In order to progress through the rooms, you must line up blocks to create programs to draw pixel art on the wall.

It starts easy, but gets very hard by the end.

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  rstcxk 2024-11-19 22:27 UTC

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  Nice little game, but not perfect

  Tried it out and i enjoyed it for the most part. But some glaring issues took away from my enjoyment

  • Most of the time is spent looking for the tiles in your inventory, which is very clunky and sluggish
  • If you make any mistake, you have to restart from the beginning. Which means more sluggish inventory juggling
  • In the later levels, it just boils down to writing the same expression over and over "x >= <min x> and x <= <max x> and y >= <min y> and y <= <max y>" to draw a rectangle. I liked the frog level though, it had some satisfying modulo solutions
  • The preview's board colors have a slightly different hue than the color blocks. This is especially apparent with "light grey" and "white" colors. I used white as image's background and after like 15 minutes of inputting the expressions, it turns out it was supposed to be light grey. I stopped playing after that

  Most of these problems should be pretty easy to fix, so im hopeful that the game will be much better in the future :)

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  DS 2024-11-24 22:00 UTC

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  Good concept, needs a bit of QoL improvements

  • At the start there's too much text. Many people will just skip it. I did try to read it, but didn't grasp it at all, because it was too abstract, I haven't seen the nodes it was talking about. And after I closed the dialogue I forgot everything and didn't know what to do. After some minutes I noticed that I can place the color that's shown at the wall, and it caused progress. After that, when I saw a shape at the 2nd pattern, I understood what to do. But I just came there with the help of guessing and reading the node names with the debug menu.
  • I don't understand why such a big palette of colours is used from the start on, when 2 are enough. Finding the colors in inventory is also not fun. Maybe only give the colors to inventory that you need for the current pattern. And/Or make it so that if you leftclick a color with any color node, you get the punched color.
  • (Sorry, haven't played this for too long.)
  • Btw., you could also make a 3D version of this game.
  • Just out of interest, why doesn't this take part in the game jam?

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