Whale quest! by methylenblub

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made by methylenblub for LD35 (JAM)
You are a shapeshifter, and after all those college and shapetraining years you finally got your 1st mission!
For shapeshifting you need to "fuse" with diverse item you will find through your way to the town.

CONTROLS
Please use the arrows to move, keep in mind that you can't move to a position you've been before.
For restarting the game you can use R
**PRESS ENTER AFTER THE TITLE SCREEN**

Ratings

Coolness 56% 3
Overall(Jam) 2.76 957
Fun(Jam) 2.66 900
Graphics(Jam) 2.29 1021
Humor(Jam) 3.04 274
Innovation(Jam) 2.86 714
Mood(Jam) 2.50 922
Theme(Jam) 3.04 759

Feedback

rogberth
19. Apr 2016 路 08:38 UTC
Small but cute little puzzle game : D I really enjoyed trying to guess what does it take to become a proper whale haha
TheCain
21. Apr 2016 路 03:52 UTC
Was there any way to actually win? or just get 'Congrats?'
Anyways, interesting meld of puzzles.
Garr
21. Apr 2016 路 12:39 UTC
I really wanted to play this, but I DL the windows exe and ran it and it just froze at the title screen. :(
medidog
21. Apr 2016 路 17:52 UTC
the same happened to me exactly like @Garr said :(
馃帳 methylenblub
21. Apr 2016 路 18:28 UTC
@TheCain There's actually 3 endings!
@Garr & @medidog you have to press enter, unless it really froze the app, then sorry :(
erikkire
21. Apr 2016 路 18:29 UTC
Please no installers in the future
Humorcet
21. Apr 2016 路 18:46 UTC
fun little game, i liked the whale
runvs
22. Apr 2016 路 13:49 UTC
Nice puzzle game. Well done for a gamejam! :)
Crowbeak
26. Apr 2016 路 09:38 UTC
It's frustrating that the game shuts down when you fail. It would be nice to be able to just loop back in and try again. The exploratory nature of it is cool, though.
dcolgan
29. Apr 2016 路 01:12 UTC
Could not get the title screen to run.
blob
29. Apr 2016 路 03:44 UTC
I... I don't understand.
Stending
30. Apr 2016 路 13:30 UTC
Pretty cute, loved the little storyline behind!
Well made, congrats! :)
Mantlair
30. Apr 2016 路 13:39 UTC
Ummmm. I couldnt find any other ending then the wikipedia one. So i am not voting now. I will if i get the point.
Ironhead
30. Apr 2016 路 15:00 UTC
I tried a few times and I successfully became a whale. Cool little puzzle game.
Alphish
30. Apr 2016 路 16:01 UTC
Yay, apparently I've managed to become a super-whale. Pretty cute puzzle game, but the exploration part seems rather unnecessary to me (in fact, with all that random generation means sometimes items end up in configuration where a perfect victory is impossible), and I wasn't really fond of slow walking and having to *press* button to move to the next field.

Maybe you can expand upon that general idea, somehow...?

(I just wonder, what exactly happens to player character once they successfully turn into proper whale...?)
jakass
30. Apr 2016 路 16:06 UTC
Nice game!
Yumeito
06. May 2016 路 20:48 UTC
Nice little game :)
Chaserbrown
07. May 2016 路 17:58 UTC
Fun little game! It was kind of confusing, but I assumed that you were trying to collect the items that you thought a whale needed in order to become a whale?
dcRfj15
08. May 2016 路 00:47 UTC
Very short game, but the idea and implementation was nice. I had trouble finding the alternate endings in the game, I kept getting the wiki pedia one. It would be nice if there was a small hint about how to win the game, I tried getting all the items, covering all of the tiles, avoiding all the items, and all of them seemed to give me the same ending.
Also, there should be a little more contrast between the tiles the player has visited and the tiles the player hasn't visited, unless the player was looking carefully it was kind of hard to tell them apart.
Good job!
hazzahazzam
08. May 2016 路 02:43 UTC
Ah! I can only find two endings. Puzzle games are fun when executed well. And this was fun!
xxdos
09. May 2016 路 00:11 UTC
Done! ;)
Great Job!
ayesh
09. May 2016 路 17:37 UTC
simple and entertaining
nice game!
Tanton-H2X
09. May 2016 路 18:14 UTC
just too short!ToT but these great design symbol graphic really attract me alot~ (theme was too hidden let me feel ToT)