{"author_link":"\/author\/sftrabbit\/","author_name":"sftrabbit","author_uid":"26559","comments":[{"author_name":"lightsoda","author_uid":"19698","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 7:14pm","epoch":1461006540,"text":"Some nice twists to the puzzles, not what I was expecting, and it didn't ramp up too fast. Nice music too. The only minor nitpick I would have is the input buffering, but other than that, what's there is well done."},{"author_name":"Bendix","author_uid":"11567","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:02pm","epoch":1461013020,"text":"Cool concept! The first game I actually enjoyed even though I got stuck a few times"},{"author_name":"FerraWare","author_uid":"45480","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:05pm","epoch":1461013200,"text":"Wow, I wasn't expecting much at first, but the clever use of a simple mechanic and the level design made this a pretty good game!"},{"author_name":"jdmazz","author_uid":"50350","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:06pm","epoch":1461013260,"text":"I like puzzles, but the puzzles were really easy. I liked the FFV style graphics. Music was good enough to set the mood. Overall, good job!"},{"author_name":"laFunk","author_uid":"62641","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:07pm","epoch":1461013320,"text":"Nice work! I like every aspect of it!"},{"author_name":"ultravioleta","author_uid":"92718","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:07pm","epoch":1461013320,"text":"woow, I loved this game, the level design and the concept, just needs a restart level button :)"},{"author_name":"Jod","author_uid":"20442","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:11pm","epoch":1461013560,"text":"Wow. That's some _really_ nice game design you have there. Very good introduction levels and a way to build up the player experience by giving them consistently more difficult challenges while introducing new gameplay concepts. I am honestly impressed.\r\rI also loved the tileset (old-school dungeons) and the sound. Very nice!\r\rIf I had to pick something to improve I would say the user interface. Adding just a border and a bit of text would make the whole thing more complete."},{"author_name":"Jungle","author_uid":"48998","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:36pm","epoch":1461015060,"text":"I like the graphs! Good level design job. Music are nice also. Congrats!"},{"author_name":"theOnlyGoodDrcz","author_uid":"88774","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:38pm","epoch":1461015180,"text":"I can't run it :( the browser keeps complaining:\rGET http:\/\/josephmansfield.uk\/TempleShifters\/phaser.map 404 (Not Found) -- will definitely be back here. the music I can hear is awesome!"},{"author_name":"theOnlyGoodDrcz","author_uid":"88774","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:49pm","epoch":1461015840,"text":"okay, this is probably some chromium issue; got it working on opera!"},{"author_name":"sftrabbit","author_uid":"26559","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 9:53pm","epoch":1461016080,"text":"Thanks for the feedback everyone! I'm glad to see the difficulty seems to ramp up nicely. I think there's definitely a couple of "aha" moments in there. Wish I'd had more time to explore some of the puzzle mechanics more. And @Jod - totally agree, would have loved to have a background and some level select\/menu screens."},{"author_name":"theOnlyGoodDrcz","author_uid":"88774","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:10pm","epoch":1461017100,"text":"That was amazing! I love sokobanish puzzles; 5\/5 on every aspect! If I had a limited number of tries I would have to spend much more time; some puzzles were quite tricky; I await full version with more levels :)"},{"author_name":"theOnlyGoodDrcz","author_uid":"88774","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:11pm","epoch":1461017160,"text":"ps also I love the way the game explains itself with initial levels. sooo cool!"},{"author_name":"APantaloni","author_uid":"92148","time":"Apr 18, 2016 @ 10:52pm","epoch":1461019620,"text":"This one is really enjoyable. Very neat puzzle game with cool retro graphics and nice music. Very easy at the beginning, then gets tricky."},{"author_name":"ekx","author_uid":"86431","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 4:44pm","epoch":1461083940,"text":"Great puzzle design. Liked the idea of having to kill off your guys to get through a level. Would have liked to not have to repress the arrow keys for every step."},{"author_name":"LOSTALLOY","author_uid":"87699","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 6:56pm","epoch":1461091860,"text":"So many levels! I like puzzles like this! Good job!"},{"author_name":"Odyssey","author_uid":"58620","time":"Apr 19, 2016 @ 7:53pm","epoch":1461095280,"text":"This is quite nice"},{"author_name":"Pomb","author_uid":"21417","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 8:39am","epoch":1461141240,"text":"A bit like sokoban! It's cool :D"},{"author_name":"Fumiko","author_uid":"38848","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 8:50am","epoch":1461141900,"text":"Phew, I got to the end. The Phases I went through: "A Puzzler! Neato!"\r"Man... I think this is to easy"\r"Oh hey - that's a nice twist"\r"HOW DO YOU SOLVE THIS?!"\r"Alright I'm getting the hang of it"\r"Oh no... will I be able to finish this? How could I dare to comment otherwise? ;__;"\r"Wait... it's over? Kewl. :D"\r\rThe mechanics are simple, yet lead to complex puzzles - that's a nice feat to achieve. I liked your game very much. Although you probably spend too much time on the earlier levels and then lacked time for later ones. As the game ends after having introduced several new mechanics which where explorered only once or twice. It's an awesome game, but for it's length it would've probably been better to cut some of the early levels to get faster to the shapeshifting. However when the player get's there the shapeshifting-theme is quite present and imo very well interpreted. I liked it! Want more of it! :D"},{"author_name":"sftrabbit","author_uid":"26559","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 8:56am","epoch":1461142260,"text":"@Fumiko Totally agree - I both wanted to gradually teach the mechanics and also explore everything deeply, but I simply didn't have time to make more levels to explore the shapeshifting well. For me, there are a couple of stand-out levels: the one where you're first introduced to sacrificing a warrior, the one with green\/white where you have to change their formation to get the statues out of the way, and the one with the line of red shifter circles. I would have loved to explore these kinds of things more, in particular combining the formation mechanic with the shifting more."},{"author_name":"Insality","author_uid":"43734","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 9:09am","epoch":1461143040,"text":"Imressive!\rSign on all comments above, amazing work\rLove it, for it simple and great level design\r\rI have a question to you, if you can answer me. How do you create such levels? With growing up difficulty and so perfect player feels? I want you expierence :D"},{"author_name":"sftrabbit","author_uid":"26559","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 9:23am","epoch":1461143880,"text":"@Insality That's a difficult question. I'd say there were two things that helped:\r\r1. Being able to quickly make levels with Tiled\r2. Having a set of simple mechanics that you can introduce gradually and combine in different ways\r\rIf I had just had one mechanic, let's say the "altar" mechanic where you move against the thing with the hand on it and it allows them to keep moving while the one walking into the hand stays still, I certainly could have explored it further, but it wouldn't have had the same feeling. You'd learn the rules, and then it would just be level after level of applying the same rule in more complex situations. To make the learning experience fun, you need to introduce new rules that all interact with each other.\r\rOne of my favourite moments, when you sacrifice one of the warriors, was just a happy accident. I had the mechanic of needing to cover the exact number\/colour of goals, and I had the mechanic of them falling down the pit, and then I realised I could use these together. I think it works especially because by that point I had set the pits up as a bad thing, and then that level twists it on its head.\r\rThere are some mechanics that I think *don't* work well. If I were to develop this further, there would need to be some tweaks to the statue pushing (perhaps areas of the floor where you can't push it?). Currently, it's just too *free*, so doesn't restrict the solution space sufficiently."},{"author_name":"M2tias","author_uid":"40135","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 9:49am","epoch":1461145440,"text":"Nice concept for a puzzle game. I loved the sacrificing mechanic and the temple theme. Maybe you could have emphasized the transformation graphically a bit more. I didn't realize they transformed (other than color) before I read it in the description. Puzzles were fairly easy but not the easiest I've seen in this LD...\rGood game, great ambience, well done!"},{"author_name":"plantprogrammer","author_uid":"91677","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 1:54pm","epoch":1461160140,"text":"A very lovely game. Great job for the small amount of time available. I especially enjoyed the music :)"},{"author_name":"Larzan","author_uid":"10395","time":"Apr 20, 2016 @ 5:00pm","epoch":1461171300,"text":"Haha, so mean, i got to kill them to proceed.\rI like the twist on the sokoban idea, well done!"},{"author_name":"Big Cow","author_uid":"51323","time":"Apr 21, 2016 @ 10:31pm","epoch":1461277560,"text":"Really nice entry - interesting mechanics, good level design, nice aesthetics."},{"author_name":"marod","author_uid":"62521","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 5:47pm","epoch":1461346920,"text":"Challenging game! Nice!"},{"author_name":"scorched","author_uid":"48268","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 5:55pm","epoch":1461347400,"text":"The kill-to-fit idea is quite fresh, and the mood is set up great!\rGot frustrated on hand-altar levels though..."},{"author_name":"gnerkus","author_uid":"28566","time":"Apr 22, 2016 @ 9:53pm","epoch":1461361680,"text":"Nice puzzles."},{"author_name":"Tex Killer","author_uid":"7901","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 3:27am","epoch":1461381720,"text":"Very nice puzzles!\r\rAs the others have said, the first levels are more though out, so the end was pretty abrupt, but it was still very entertaining. You might want to put some visual indication in the game that the 'R' key resets the level, as people might not read the description here before playing."},{"author_name":"reheated","author_uid":"15514","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 12:41pm","epoch":1461414960,"text":"Clever rules and nice puzzles and music!"},{"author_name":"Rafos Games","author_uid":"92721","time":"Apr 23, 2016 @ 7:45pm","epoch":1461440400,"text":"The puzzles are very challenging, good level design =)"},{"author_name":"puppetmaster","author_uid":"39425","time":"Apr 24, 2016 @ 8:03pm","epoch":1461527880,"text":"Very atmospheric unique puzzle game.\rCongrats for your cool entry!"},{"author_name":"geekguy100","author_uid":"76055","time":"Apr 25, 2016 @ 3:55pm","epoch":1461599400,"text":"Nice game! A unique puzzler."},{"author_name":"orukinawa","author_uid":"34628","time":"Apr 28, 2016 @ 10:40am","epoch":1461839700,"text":"I kept wondering how it fit the theme until the later stages. Nice interpretation and solid game!\r\rP.S: I felt bad for the extra templars :'("},{"author_name":"NuberuGames","author_uid":"92922","time":"May 1, 2016 @ 10:34am","epoch":1462098540,"text":"Great idea and puzzles. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Mantlair","author_uid":"49861","time":"May 1, 2016 @ 10:44am","epoch":1462099140,"text":"Veeeery good. Please continue making this thing. Concept is kinda like my game. (The going togatger part. On my game tiles have to be connected tho.) You even made pixel animations. That's a nice thing for an LD. Well done! (Music really puts you in the mood!)"},{"author_name":"knason","author_uid":"65229","time":"May 1, 2016 @ 8:00pm","epoch":1462132500,"text":"Awesome! really great game! I got stuck and needed to restart on some of the levels, It would had been nice if you could just reset the level your on. But overall great job!"},{"author_name":"sftrabbit","author_uid":"26559","time":"May 2, 2016 @ 2:11pm","epoch":1462197960,"text":"@knason Thanks, and you can! Just hit R and it should reset the level!"},{"author_name":"silkworm_sweatshop","author_uid":"47199","time":"May 6, 2016 @ 8:33pm","epoch":1462566480,"text":"Great puzzler and a lot of content!"},{"author_name":"ragnta","author_uid":"64481","time":"May 7, 2016 @ 7:09pm","epoch":1462647840,"text":"It's an awasome game. But when I started it, I got a white box. If I push an arrow, I got a character.. I think the game has a bug at start :\/\r\r(Note: Please read the instructions of my game the next time! ;) )"},{"author_name":"Ellian","author_uid":"7701","time":"May 8, 2016 @ 11:13am","epoch":1462705680,"text":"I see where you're going with this shapeshifting thing, it's a smart puzzle game you've made there. Difficulty ramp up pretty nicely too! Good job!"},{"author_name":"fin_nolimit","author_uid":"86340","time":"May 8, 2016 @ 7:14pm","epoch":1462734540,"text":"I got stuck a few times (especially on the level where you can drop in the hole but I loved the game! I like figuring out puzzles. nice work!!!"},{"author_name":"sftrabbit","author_uid":"26559","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 1:40pm","epoch":1462800900,"text":"Thanks all - lots of nice and helpful comments!"},{"author_name":"lkr","author_uid":"42013","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 6:18pm","epoch":1462817580,"text":"Fun gameplay and game mechanics, with a nice difficulty curve. Love the visuals and moody music also."},{"author_name":"MSiddeek","author_uid":"52528","time":"May 9, 2016 @ 8:19pm","epoch":1462824840,"text":"Very nice mode and consistent visual style. The background music also added a lot. How many levels are there? I didn't manage to finish it"}],"images":["ld35\/26559-bdab7449f637e6e484b462b4b5f41b7b.jpg","ld35\/26559-9a8ab8cdae4ad8110ca429107ca508de.jpg","ld35\/26559-f2c773319ae4089942d562814affc42c.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/josephmansfield.uk\/TempleShifters\/","text":"Web"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"2792","g_author":"26559","g_event":"LD35","g_eventkey":"33","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"2818","g_title":"Temple Shifters","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"54","g_commentcount":"46","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/26559-shot0-1460944686.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/26559-shot1-1460945352.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/542293\/26559-shot2-1460945352.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"A tile-based puzzle game in which you must help the ancient warriors perform their sacred ritual. Transform between the Warrior, the Ogre, the Phantom, and the Serpent, using their special abilities to interact with the environment around you and get the warriors to their goal.\r\n\r\nA few of the puzzles have some major flaws that mean there's a super simple way of solving them. As a bonus meta-game, you can try to figure out how I *meant* for you to solve it!\r\n\r\nArrows to move. R to reset the level.\r\n\r\nTools used:\r\n- Phaser (first time using this)\r\n- Tiled\r\n- Sublime Text 2\r\n- Gimp\r\n- Photoshop\r\n- Ableton Live (and an M-Audio Axiom 49 MIDI controller)\r\n\r\nSource (needs to be tidied up): https:\/\/github.com\/sftrabbit\/TempleShifters\/tree\/master\r\n\r\nThings I wish there had been more time to do:\r\n- Fix the puzzle flaws\r\n- More puzzles involving formation movement\r\n- More puzzles involving the blue character\r\n- The render order (the characters appear above the tops of the walls)\r\n- Some nice particle effects when shapeshifting\r\n- Sound effects (moving, falling, level complete, etc.)\r\n- More wall tiles so they connect together better\r\n- Add environment details (actually had things in the spritesheet but didn't have time to add them)\r\n- Level select\r\n- Level names\r\n\r\nAll in all, however, a mostly successful second Ludum Dare for me!","title":"Temple Shifters"}