Make your Queen happy by Rafos Games

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made by Rafos Games for LD35 (JAM)
Queen mimicry plays with her little friends.

Click on the blue figures to change shape to make the queen happy before time runs out.

I hope you enjoy my mini game =)

Your free to comment in english, french and spanish. I appreciate your suggestions, comments and constructive feedback =D
Music from Henry Purcell - Dance for the fairies

I'm used Construct 2, Paint.net and ChipTone for this project.

Edit: I forgot to mention that it's mobile friendly.

Ratings

Coolness 62% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.37 415
Fun(Jam) 3.37 329
Graphics(Jam) 3.63 370
Humor(Jam) 3.45 137
Innovation(Jam) 3.29 338
Mood(Jam) 3.25 427
Theme(Jam) 3.77 210

Feedback

AnaGF
18. Apr 2016 路 23:59 UTC
A bit hard but a good mechanic idea. Art is cute and funny.
theOnlyGoodDrcz
19. Apr 2016 路 00:28 UTC
aaaa somebody stop this! pretty cruel, but cute as well :)
cabezotta
19. Apr 2016 路 14:31 UTC
Is very hard! But you are working very well with the theme :) I think that it would be better if you have some sort of indication of "time before the clicked figure changes to blue again", but the game is good overall! good work!
kestrelgames
19. Apr 2016 路 18:05 UTC
It's SUPER cute, I could see this working really well on a phone game (looks like it's laid out that way already)! Competitive mode too maybe? :)
馃帳 Rafos Games
19. Apr 2016 路 18:43 UTC
Thanks everybody =D

@cabezotta thank for the suggestion =)
@kestrelgames yeah it's a good idea O= could implement in a future update =)

I know my game is a little hard to play hahahaha I'm looking how to balance it =)
sndr
19. Apr 2016 路 19:02 UTC
Hard but funny mechanic! Very kawai artstyle!
samlo
19. Apr 2016 路 19:08 UTC
Pretty difficult, but soooo funny
thephantom
19. Apr 2016 路 19:36 UTC
very cool casual game. good job :D
Sabina Lis
21. Apr 2016 路 02:33 UTC
Me gusto el sentido del humor, la yuxtaposici贸n de lo kawai con m煤sica cl谩sica y la relaci贸n con el tema del juego, me result贸 dificil encontrar un patr贸n de juego
MechanicalLife
21. Apr 2016 路 15:14 UTC
Really cute :) Managed trough 16 rounds, pretty proud :)
I have to say tough it gets hard fast.
IvanFon
21. Apr 2016 路 15:37 UTC
Awesome concept, and it's already a fun game!
luquio
21. Apr 2016 路 18:29 UTC
haha it was super great to play it, reminds everyone how hard is to make girls happy... mostly when shapes start to randomly appear and dissapear super fast... that stage will be my girlfriend! Great work and hope u could make it available on mobile! as i see it would be perfect for mobiles. cheers bro
sftrabbit
23. Apr 2016 路 19:18 UTC
Simple concept, pretty difficult! Nice work.
AsixJin
23. Apr 2016 路 23:00 UTC
The game was pretty hard...It kinda sucked when all of them were pink and then right as the timer went to zero some turned blue and I lost them. I like the pacing of the game and the art.
MayankUnreal
23. Apr 2016 路 23:01 UTC
Cool graphics.It's fun playing it
fin_nolimit
23. Apr 2016 路 23:03 UTC
That is a cute little game!!! Fantastic job!!!
Llucile
24. Apr 2016 路 23:44 UTC
Really nice game ! A little bit hard but fun to play. And the art is really sweet
bigpan
02. May 2016 路 19:28 UTC
Extremely hard to play but very addictive, nice job! My finger hurts now...
Swynfel
02. May 2016 路 22:11 UTC
Yo!

Very cute game! And pink!

Very innovative mechanic, I think I have never played anything of the sort (or I can't remember).

However they are some problems, because those last-millisecond-shapeshifts where extremely annoying !

Maybe you could have stopped the random shape shifts during the last second? I also think there was too much time : what you do in the beginning is more or less useless.

I also saw that clicking on already-correct shapes didn't do anything : you could have been a little more evil and made them shape-shift back to a wrong shape, it would the "I'm just clicking randomly" strategy (which is actually pretty effective).

The game also gets a little repetitive after a while. I saw that once you have too few shapes, they start randomly moving : very good idea! This could have maybe been done a little better, by preventing the shapes from overlapping, and/or having the shapes "move" instead of teleporting (you could have had them bounce around : so much fun!) That allowed a change in the game pace which was cool !

You could also have different times of "mini-games" in the same theme to make the game less repetitive : some rounds, the shapes are all blue, and you have to find the single one that is the same shape as the queen, in a very limited
amount of time. Unfortunately, that only works with a lot of shapes.

Anyway: Good job and good luck for your next ludum dare!
馃帳 Rafos Games
04. May 2016 路 01:36 UTC
Thanks for the feedbacks =D

Hi @Swynfel =) yeah, all my friends have the same problem with the last-millisecond-shapeshifts hahaha, but I'm working to fix it =) and I like the idea to make others "mini-games" =D

I take all the feedbacks to work in a better version =D
yuigoto
04. May 2016 路 03:11 UTC
This game is cute, but it's quite challenging! :O It feels like a whack-a-mole type of game, but totally suited for mobile (because we need more than just a mouse cursor to properly play the game :P).

I love this type of game, it's casual but quite addictive! :) Some sfx would make the game a nice release for mobile stores, and I hope you polish and release it! ;)

Cheers!
Fabraz
09. May 2016 路 19:54 UTC
Tough!
MintArcade
09. May 2016 路 19:55 UTC
Awww,so cute and cruel, most likely "crutel"
^_^
avinashd
09. May 2016 路 22:47 UTC
One of the few games where the shapeshifting is your enemy and out of your control! Really innovative!

I'm definitely reading too much into the cutesy game, but it could be seen as an allegory of keeping free speech (various colors/shapes) down to please an existing way of thought where failure causes citizens to leave the support of the queen.

As Swynfel pointed out, you could make it extra evil and have the correct shapes shapeshift as well! Or make it even more fast and it could easily become a twitchy game perfect for mobile devices!

This game has a lot of potential, I hope you improve and release it after the jam!