Distant Assistant by Neon Glass

Description
After receiving a distant SOS signal you - a promising space engineer with block-moving specialization - are sent to a remote solar system to find out all of its color missing! You'll have to repair the radio structures on every planet, solving a variety of other problems as well, to restore the color to this system and to figure who sent the SOS signal in the first place.
Instructions
- Click to move The Ship around.
- Click on Flags to start levels. (You need to be touching the flag to actually start the level!)
- Drag any tile indefinitely to solve the puzzle.
- Complete puzzles to unlock more.
Controls
- Mouse for everything
- Esc to return to menu (for volume sliders)
Credits
Neon Glass Team:
@dragonayzer - Programming, Game design, Art
Friends:
@EvilEbolai - Programming, Game design
@tabera - Art
Music by Aleks SHAGI
| Link | https://neon-glass.itch.io/distant-assistant |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/distant-assistant |
Ratings
| Overall | 561th | 3.386⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 402th | 3.405⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 343th | 3.5⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 677th | 3.143⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 655th | 3.167⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 403th | 3.333⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 515th | 2.525⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 533th | 3.452⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 21🗳️ | 12🗨️ |
I loved the art in the background when you were flying around, and it was cool to have a match 3 game where matching 3 is not what you are trying to do but something you are trying to avoid, as well as the ability to swap diagonally and several swaps in a row.
I hope you will reach 20 ratings, because right now you don't have enough to get yours at the end of the jam
I like the unique artstyle and atmosphere!
Some of the puzzles where also a little challanging, though most you could solve by just moving the pieces to the target location :)
The only criticism I have is that it's sometimes hard to read what's happening with a lot of combos. A simple falling animation would have made the game perfect.
But over all I did really like my stay with the game and played it to the end.
Play-through with more comments:
https://youtu.be/UzITztoEsGw
My thoughts are shared in the VOD.