Milky Helps People by reheated

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made by reheated for LD33 (COMPO)
Milky loves being helpful, but sometimes he finds that he could be more helpful if only he was a little bit bigger. The professor's invention can help milky get bigger, but it's a bit tricky to use! A logic puzzle game.

Tools:
Programming: Notepad++
Testing: Firefox, IE and Chrome, all under Windows
Code base: I extracted the reusable parts from my LD32 entry.
Graphics: Krita
Audio: Audacity, FL Studio, Miroslav Philharmonik.

Ratings

Coolness 69% 3
Overall 4.13 18
Audio 3.90 38
Fun 4.12 19
Graphics 3.52 250
Humor 4.43 9
Innovation 4.36 8
Mood 3.98 34
Theme 3.43 448

Feedback

Cryptix
23. Aug 2015 · 22:39 UTC
All I can think about while playing this game is, what kind of lunatic made this? It's absolutely nuts!
But i'm glued to it, amazing work. :)
kewleus
23. Aug 2015 · 23:05 UTC
This was amazing. Thank you.
Mark Smith
24. Aug 2015 · 02:01 UTC
Brilliant! I especially love the music.
GPASAS
24. Aug 2015 · 08:37 UTC
Well done, Michael. Its good.
gingerBill
24. Aug 2015 · 21:41 UTC
I have never seen a game like this. The game play very fun and would actually plane puzzle like this for a long time.

I found the story "moo"ving. I could have picked an "udder" joke but it spoilt the milk!
petersmyth
25. Aug 2015 · 04:13 UTC
Wow. So good, five stars all around. I love how incongruous the "game" part of your game is with the narrative. There's just the tiniest fraction of justification - the puzzle game is the machine that collects mangosteen - and that's just what this game needed. I love the sincerity of the voice acting, I love the puns, I love the art, I love the nonsense word "mangosteen", I loved it all.
🎤 reheated
25. Aug 2015 · 08:54 UTC
Hi all, thanks for your comments!

@gingerBill: Haha, yoghurt a good sense of humour.

@petersmyth: Thanks! Mangosteen's a real thing, you know, and pretty much that powerful in real life, according to some.
folex70
25. Aug 2015 · 13:01 UTC
i get a message "Decoding audio (this could take a minute) forever and cant play : (
Warxen
25. Aug 2015 · 13:04 UTC
Fun game, liked it to see a game with some humor.
TLansdale
25. Aug 2015 · 13:18 UTC
Easily my favourite game of the competition so far. Great story, very funny, and the logic puzzles are solid. Awesome.
Darius
25. Aug 2015 · 13:32 UTC
Your game is strangely addictive ! I couldn't manage it 'till the end, but the game was really cool and fun to play !
🎤 reheated
25. Aug 2015 · 13:45 UTC
@folex70: darn! what OS and browser?
logiclogue
25. Aug 2015 · 15:11 UTC
Fantastic story, very humorous. A well polished game. Really enjoyed it!
the-arrival
25. Aug 2015 · 22:13 UTC
Wow! I want more Levels. The mechanics are super fun and addictive. With the right strategy it´s very possible to get around even the more complex levels, which is key to good puzzle mechanics. So you start of with a very complex level, but the complexity reduces very nicely with every sure turn you take, which again makes other turn mandatory. It has a bit of the feeling of solving a sodoku, but the right amount of trial and error. This mechanics are a gem!
justinooncx
26. Aug 2015 · 09:44 UTC
Finished the game and got both endings. Bloody hell. I'm a monster for laughing.
Literal Games
26. Aug 2015 · 09:47 UTC
Wow! A really great entry. The puzzles were just on the right side of challenging, and the story was fantastic and funny. Really great job!
BNeutral
26. Aug 2015 · 09:53 UTC
Thank you, Milky!
Quetzakol
26. Aug 2015 · 09:55 UTC
One of my favorite games so far ! The story is fun and well narrated. The music is very good (but a little bit depressing). The graphics are ok, and the puzzles are very interesting and challenging, it was a good idea. Very well done !
CrazyMinnowStudio
26. Aug 2015 · 19:29 UTC
The story was awesome..."Milky was riding his sauce..." LOL Love the puzzle dynamics. Only thing missing is some feedback sound. Great job!
petersmyth
26. Aug 2015 · 19:40 UTC
@reheated i'm sorry! it sounded like a made up word so i just assumed haha. Such a cute fruit! Very fitting for the game :^)
collaboration
27. Aug 2015 · 12:17 UTC
Excellent puzzle, really excellent, it may not match the theme so much, but it's great anyway. Love it!
Nanolotl
28. Aug 2015 · 02:48 UTC
Definitely one of my favourites so far. The picture book style story telling was great (nice puns too). But the best part of the game was the puzzles. It was really satisfying figuring out a strategy, and once you knew the strategy the puzzles were still really fun, sort of like doing Sudoku.
khahem
28. Aug 2015 · 03:34 UTC
This is a fantastic entry.
You managed to create good puzzles *and* build a story around them, with two endings !
Puzzle games are quite rare this LD, this one was really good. Great job !
spotco
28. Aug 2015 · 05:54 UTC
Haha, real leaps of logic to go from the story to the actual gameplay. Still loved it though, so british
Crefossus
28. Aug 2015 · 06:04 UTC
Top notch entry. Great story in just the right dose size so that it was a reward to each puzzle. Maybe missing some juice on the game part of the game - a pause for level completion, some anims along with sfx as some one else mentioned (though these hardly hurt your score...).

Theme? He gets bigger (I was expecting him to crush the other character) but is never really a monster. Although, I played the get smaller ending...

TIL mangosteens are real
grywhttl
29. Aug 2015 · 00:39 UTC
Excellent! Super good job
Fanatrick
29. Aug 2015 · 00:46 UTC
Veeeeery creative, I enjoyed it, especially the humor and the general idea behind the theme. Awesome entry :D
hgcummings
29. Aug 2015 · 00:56 UTC
Wonderful, bonkers story and very satisfying puzzles in the gameplay. Kept me engaged all the way to the end.
killersnoofie
29. Aug 2015 · 04:30 UTC
very good
ehtd
29. Aug 2015 · 04:33 UTC
I like the idea of story/puzzle Could not make it to the end, but it was very good.
MrTwister
29. Aug 2015 · 04:50 UTC
Quite a cute and fun game! Loved it :)

The puzzles were well designed and fun to solve. Only had a bit of trouble with one of the first 3 levels (if I recall correctly), the rest had pretty intuitive solutions.

As some other people have pointed out, the connection between the story and the gameplay is rather weak, but it's REALLY rare to see a pure puzzle game with a story that makes sense with the gameplay, honestly, so it's not a a problem for me.

Really well executed, loved the humor and the graphics. A fine entry indeed!
CheesyRamen
29. Aug 2015 · 05:10 UTC
Great puzzle mechanics, great story, great work!
One of my favourites so far in this jam =)
El Cabaro
29. Aug 2015 · 05:22 UTC
The logic puzzle bit is actually pretty brilliant, though I got stuck pretty early on as I'm wont to do. I liked the voice actor.
panda
29. Aug 2015 · 06:50 UTC
I played to both endings! Very fun game, and I loved the cutscenes! Beautiful :)
randoman
29. Aug 2015 · 22:42 UTC
Great game! I love puzzle games, thanks for the post you made with a list of them!
darklightteam
01. Sep 2015 · 13:41 UTC
Wow! Really nice entry. I loved the levels, they are very cleverly designed. Congratulations on this one.
RiaDelva
01. Sep 2015 · 13:46 UTC
really nice puzzles!
and funny story ^^
TestSubject06
01. Sep 2015 · 14:22 UTC
This is a great little puzzle game, I liked the challenge of the final level!
Tselmek
01. Sep 2015 · 14:35 UTC
Loved this game, the story and the graphics are really charming. The puzzle mechanics are well found and they have a bit of Sokobond feels to them. The levels became insanely hard very fast, I had to search some hints in the timelapse in order to progress in the story. Nice take on the theme. The 2 endings were very funny, congrats!
ohsqueezy
01. Sep 2015 · 15:41 UTC
What an awesome mechanic! I could play hundreds of these puzzles!
Shaun LeBron
01. Sep 2015 · 16:11 UTC
take all of my 5's. uniquely fresh
UncleChris
01. Sep 2015 · 17:10 UTC
This was amazing. Loved it very, very much. One of the best games I have played. I haven't finished but, oh my heavens I will. :)
Ninja Garage
06. Sep 2015 · 02:59 UTC
Good, addicting game! :D
tayl1r
10. Sep 2015 · 13:08 UTC
Really nice. Funny, well presented, and a pretty fun game too!