gridlocks

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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</max></min></max></min>
  • 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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