Your life is CONcurrency by pixlark

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made by pixlark for LD 44 (COMPO)

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A puzzle game about managing concurrency.

Important Note: You can't drag the pieces around by holding the mouse button. You click once to pick up, once to put back down. Just didn't have time make holding-down work.

Tutorial

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This is an orb. Every orb has some number.

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This is a flag. For every orb there is a flag, and your goal is to match them up.

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Every orb and flag is connected to a path. When you hit GO, the orbs will move from left to right, towards the flags.

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As you can see, the orbs aren't usually lined up correctly. That's where swappers come into play. When two orbs hit each side of a swapper at the same time, they will swap:

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If two swappers are aligned vertically, only the top swapper will function:

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This is a stopper. This will slow down an orb by one step, allowing you to sync them up correctly:

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Finally, there are certain spots where swappers cannot be placed. These are marked with red:

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Ratings

Given 2🗳️ 2🗨️

Feedback

Michael Feldman
29. Apr 2019 · 22:13 UTC
Hey saw this one reviewed by ElysiaGriffin. Immediately made me think Minesweeper. Which I can see after playing does have some similarities.
Mad props for creating a puzzle game for a jam. That's still something I've not been able to pull off.
Nice UI, nice file size. And nice marketing ;) cheers!
cppchriscpp
05. May 2019 · 01:42 UTC
Nice puzzle game! My inner nerd definitely enjoyed that one, and I managed to get through all 9 puzzles. (Nice addition of the 5th line for the last one; took a little extra time) Just challenging enough to get me thinking. The mechanics were clearly explained, and worked the way you'd expect.

If I had to nitpick one thing, it would've been nice to have a way to speed up the puzzle solving - it certainly wasn't a dealbreaker, but it felt a little bit drawn out.

Overall a great entry!