now just have to publish just in time !

J'adore comment le "win!" il tombe :D !!!

Awesome game!

Amazing entry!
Very fun, I played it to the end. The level design is quite clever.

Good idea, great combination! Maybe you can improve the interface? I think it's hard to follow.

This is the best game I've tried so far. The levels and mechanics are clever, the music is great and really sets the mood and the graphics have a nice look to them. I played through all of it and I want more! XD

@thegreenman thanks for the motivating comment, I will keep that in mind :) if I want to build on it, I will have to rework the whole code though (coded ugly things on top of ugly things)

This was a very good game. The concept was cool and the levels were well designed. Not all levels were hard but not all were a cake walk. There were many levels that made me scratch my head for a good 15 minutes before figuring it out. And you made so much content, it's really amazing. The graphics were simplistic yet stylish. I really can't think of any negatives for this game except the better explanation of the mechanics. Overall a really great game!

Five stars! Great puzzle design!

This is an amazing game! I love the idea! Not only is it a programming and a platformer game, it is also a puzzle game. This is a one of a kind. Great job! One of my favorites.

Great take on Baba is You, good puzzles too!

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Cool idea, some of the puzzles were neat and well thought out, as someone else mentioned Baby is You is what immediately came to mind when I played. Art was bad (mixed pixel sizes are the biggest offender here). Audio was just ok, the music was forgettable but serviceable and didn't get annoying. Icon swapping got a bit tedious when trying to jump and move, I think a "jump forward" would have been a bit better than having to swap between "jump" and "forward".

@Strato "Baba is You" is indeed an inspiration (although I didn't play it yet, I plan to and enjoyed author's previous work), along with "Tower of Heaven"

jump+move is a good idea.

Very cool take on the theme. Appreciate the Baba is You basis but you've got a nice twist that has something special. I had a cool "whoa" moment when I saw the way you'd jump, just when I discovered I was meant to time it. Very neat ^^ Nice job!

This game wins on creativity and gameplay and fun! I have nothing bad to say about it after 30 min playing ...just gonna play a bit more ^^

Great job indeed!

Interesting game, ended up getting stuck but like the concept. It would be cool to have more fun actions / rules you could use to mess with the world.

This was super fun and the concept is very creative!

Its a Fun entry for LD. The concept is good. Also the face of the character LOL. Good Job.

Can you rate my LD entry too? : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/gender-circle

Amazing game! The way the puzzles are solved definitely reminds me of Baba is You, though the mechanics are actually quite different, making the gameplay itself feel very unique and original. I really enjoyed the puzzles, especially the later ones, and I think that the level design is extremely well done.

Very intereseting the idea and very simple to understand, this is maybe a gem in power! I had a lot of fun playing for a while.

This is a very cool game ! I love the concept, and how you use it to build interesting puzzles. I also like the presentation a lot, it reminds me of the old platformer games on computers like ZX Spectrum.

Wow, awesome ! You did a really good job ! The puzzles are interesting and not too easy the difficulty is really growing and it really feels like a "platformer". You did this in 48 hours ! I am really impressed !

@Toulou I indeed chose to go with a ZX spectrum feel ;) If it was to a full game, I am not sure how I should go about it if I want players not getting bored.

Really enjoyed the fun puzzle challenges. I liked that there was a mix of plat-former skill and puzzle work involved.

My favorite entry by far! Neat concept and theme use, good clever design, lots of content and everything looks, feels and sounds polished.

This is by far one of my favorite games from the jam so far. The puzzles are so great, and I love the retro graphics/sound effects and music. The level design in the game is what really stood out to me the most, it's a really creative idea for a game and the level design makes it fun to figure out how to get to the end. I'd love to see a full version of this. Great job, 5 stars from me!

Amazing game, great puzzles. love it !!!!

Pretty interesting game. I rageguit on the level with the button ON/OFF because i couldn't reach the top. It was too hard to switch movements because the hero move too fast.
So maybe you can slow the hero spedd or allow to stop at platform edges or deploys a ladder/upstair to reach floors.

Good job.
I loved the sound of the yellow mosnter falling :id:

Keep working on games to make even better ;)

[My game](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/engine-in-shadow)

@visumecadroide I understand, some people have difficulties there :) But in fact there is an easy way to do it. You can always have the character auto jump, and use one direction by small touches to control with precision with very few interactions.
Given the jam time and number of levels, it was hard to mix puzzle/platforming with a steady learning curve, so there is definitely a jump in execution difficulty there!

I made it a bit hard on the platforming side on purpose because of the theme. However, if I was to make a full game, I would probably add an active pause or a slow down feature to appeal to a broader audience, while removing the pause for hardcore players ;)

Not a huge fan of puzzle games but this was fun

Cool game ! First time I see a puzzle game like this one. Nice retro graphics too

I really like this one, you've actually thought things through and created an interesting puzzle game!

Amazing puzzle game, the puzzle design was very well done :) In some levels, the control of jumping etc. in real time was a little bit sloppy for me
One of the best games I'Ve encountered so far :)

Really excellent mashup! I've thoroughly impressed you managed to make that many well-designed puzzles in such a short period of time!

User interface was generally intuitive and easy to use, though some of the timing on the tile-swapping was a little finicky.

Great game but got really tough around level 5 (the move-jump one).

@gamebuilder yup, execution is tough on this one, there is a trick to make it easier:

- consider jump as a "rest"
- whenever you want to take your time, just swap jump back, it will stop you and you can take your time
- if you want to play it cool swap right/up and left/up but never left/right


thank you for playing :)

Thanks. Actually I was way off the mark with the level, it's more like level 10 (screen shot below). But even so your advice to consider jump as rest paid off, and I was able to beat the level and eventually win the game.


This was a really cute puzzle game! I liked the puzzles and the music and it was well polished for 48 hours! Very well done!

This was really good! The difficulty was just right and the puzzles were fun. I think a programming game fits the audience here pretty well too :)

Really very nice as a concept. It is possible to do a great game by reworking a little interface but if not, the mechanics are there and the spirit of the game is simple but does the job.

Congratulations and very good work!

Wow! Pretty cool puzzle that also gets complicated and hard really fast! You can do a lot of fun things with that kind of controls, congratulations on a great game!

Very inspiring, I like all these kinds of visual programming experimentation, nice work !

Love the graphics and the uniqueness of the game. TBH I got stuck on the third level x_x haha, but it's really fun.

Congrats on the entry!

Very cool concept:) Gave up on level with the spikes droping ... was too slow to change the pieces around.
Lovely art. Cool ambient music. Great entry!

cool concept. Reminds me of the programming in pony island. Very innovative!

Brain game. Very good job with unique puzzles and making them more and more difficult. I bet this entry must have been pleasant to debug :D Good job.

@mortus thanks! I wish I could have explored some concepts a bit more.

@SamuelSousa This level is the hardest execution-wise. The trick to it is to have the sequence in mind in advance: as soon as you go right toward the flag on the bottom, store the "go left" icon on an action spot and simply switch grass/character.
If you are fast, you won't need "go left" again, but even if you were a bit slow and had the character end up all the way to the right, you should have time to spare to re-position the character.
Anyway, well done to reach so far!

@randomphantom you are the second person that refer to pony island. If I wanted to explore the concept a bit more in a proper game, would you recommand me to try it?

@jamfella to be honest debugging was a bit a jump in the dark.
I designed the levels as I went, adding features on the fly. Instead of a robust handler for all the triggers and events, I cheated quite a lot to cover all the possibilities I could think of but had to re-ajust lots of things. Long story short: you won the bet ;)

This was great! I loved the mechanics, and the level design was fascinating, often times having a much more simple solution than I expected and brilliantly using misdirection. The concept was great, the graphics suited the game well, and the audio was good as well. I especially enjoyed the "You Win!" visual effect where the block falls from the top of the screen, especially when combined with the screen shake. Amazing work! I loved this!

@joqlepecheur now that you mention it, I can see it working. I always ended up with the character on the far right. Had trouble making him stop on the flag and the the grass to meet him there.

@Chaseplays thanks, I appreciate it!
I had some fun imagining people rushing toward false leads ;)

Very high level the puzzles that this game offers. Congratulations!

I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.

I hope you continue with the project.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape

Really nice game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 41 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gETlUarz7Y