Zircon by _HopFrog
Solve puzzles to find 4 diamonds... with just two buttons!
RIGHT & LEFT ARROW KEYS TO MOVE
(PRESS BOTH AT THE SAME TIME TO PLACE A BOMB!)
You may also use R to reset the game if somehow you get stuck somewhere and ENTER to access fullscreen (Windows version!)
The windows version works much better and is highly encouraged because reasons.
A game by Mariano Cavallero (@_HopFrog), with audio by Lindar K. Greenwood (@lindarthebard)
(You better find all secrets... OR ELSE!)
RIGHT & LEFT ARROW KEYS TO MOVE
(PRESS BOTH AT THE SAME TIME TO PLACE A BOMB!)
You may also use R to reset the game if somehow you get stuck somewhere and ENTER to access fullscreen (Windows version!)
The windows version works much better and is highly encouraged because reasons.
A game by Mariano Cavallero (@_HopFrog), with audio by Lindar K. Greenwood (@lindarthebard)
(You better find all secrets... OR ELSE!)
Ratings
| Coolness | 87% | 2 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.56 | 282 |
| Audio(Jam) | 3.10 | 472 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.20 | 479 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 4.10 | 166 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.37 | 666 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.69 | 151 |
| Mood(Jam) | 3.20 | 525 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.83 | 360 |
The art is beautiful.
overall great concept
Also, for some reason the audio is so quiet it's practically inaudible in the left speaker.
Here's what should be changed:
- Do input buffering on the controls a little bit so that it's easier to place bombs in front of you when you're standing still. Often I would accidentally place it behind me due to the order that I pressed the buttons in.
- Make so going around corners is smooth, so that the character doesn't stop, and obviously fix the way that you can glitch off the blocks if you do the wrong thing.
- Make it so that springs automatically recover when you stand on them for a while. Seeing as going back and forth on a spring is a pretty common thing do you it should be easier, having to move slightly off it and then go back is annoying.
I guess some of those things are hard to get right in a limited time frame :P
Graphics were nice! I'd be nice if they lined up with the pixels on the screen properly. Often there was pixel art where because of the scaling some of the pixels were twice the width and others were normal size, which looks pretty ugly. Despite that, still looked good :)
I did manage to beat the game on my third try though... I'm assuming I beat it because I collected everything. A win screen would be nice.
Overall, good game! If there weren't those flaws it would be one of the best!
(Feel free to misquote me as saying "Overall ... there weren't ... flaws ... one of the best!")