Adelie - Someone Like You by Meep

made by Meep for Ludum Dare 54 (COMPO)

Manage your glacier's limited space in this turn-based action-puzzler! Keep the little ones from wandering off the glacier, while keeping pesky seals off of it.

This is a free-moving puzzle game- you can move as much as you want within the movement time limit as long as the mouse button stays down! For example:

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Click and drag Adelie to move around the glacier, swapping positions at every step. Your turn ends when the move timer runs out, or if you let go of Adelie, after which anything in the bottom row (except you) will fall into the ocean. Seals will then advance toward your igloo, and baby penguins will clumsily advance toward the bottom edge. Losing baby penguins reduces your movement time, and the game ends when either no baby penguins remain, or a seal reaches your igloo. If you're up for it, surrounding a seal with baby penguins may give it a change of heart. 💕

The pause menu comes with a mode that has extra movement time, as well as a mode with infinite move time, for those who want to calmly focus on the sliding-puzzle aspect. 😊

Was made in about 9 hours due to significant commitments this weekend. 😔 No background music because of time constraints and also because I still don't know how to make background music.

Controls

Mouse Drag - Move Adelie
Enter - Pause menu
Arrows/X - Navigate pause menu

Trailer

Cartridge (PICO-8)

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Source (p8.png)	https://static.jam.host/raw/b19/z/5c43c.png
Link	https://meepmoop.itch.io/someone-like-you
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/adelie-someone-like-you

Ratings

Overall	57^th	3.986⭐	37🧑‍⚖️
Fun	127^th	3.694⭐	38🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	64^th	3.914⭐	37🧑‍⚖️
Theme	113^th	3.944⭐	38🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	13^th	4.389⭐	38🧑‍⚖️
Audio	84^th	3.657⭐	37🧑‍⚖️
Humor	75^th	3.379⭐	35🧑‍⚖️
Mood	68^th	3.786⭐	37🧑‍⚖️
Given		21🗳️	16🗨️

Feedback

bigwhiteshogun

30. Sep 2023 · 11:27 UTC

You are back! I kept checking your page every LD to see if you posted a new game and here you are! Sadly I won't be able to rate your game this time as my team basically gave up and dissolved due to being unhappy with the theme, and I can't make game on my own as an artist who can't code. Still super happy to see you continuing tradition of pico 8 penguin games named after Adele. I hope it won't be your last one. Honestly from your honest fan :D

Jvdwijk

30. Sep 2023 · 12:04 UTC

Adelie is back! Looking forward to playing this ^^

FenBisher

30. Sep 2023 · 21:06 UTC

very fun and steep learning curve, seals spawning one away from the igloo seemed a bit unfair at times and caused all kinds on panic to get there

DareDevinBegins

01. Oct 2023 · 00:32 UTC

i unironically was just singing someone like you before playing this.... good artstyle but its tough to grasp

FrodoB4884

01. Oct 2023 · 09:51 UTC

This is a challenging but enjoyable game, well done! :)

Arisu Kurotori

02. Oct 2023 · 16:10 UTC

I really like the art of this game and the integrity of the game is very high. You are really awesome!

OadT

02. Oct 2023 · 18:48 UTC

Love how polished this game is. Graphics and sound are really great! Very challenging for me (even in more time mode) but still very fun! Guess I have to check out the other Adelie games as there seems to be a whole fan club :smile: :penguin:

LDJam user 2331

02. Oct 2023 · 19:53 UTC

@bigwhiteshogun: Aww sorry to hear about the team dissolving. :( I'm really happy to hear people have not only caught on to the Adelie/Adele shenanigans but have also been looking forward to them!

Phillip Scott

03. Oct 2023 · 16:37 UTC

Really polished and very tricky, good fun

LDJam user 258850

03. Oct 2023 · 16:50 UTC

yooo I love it haha ^^

![image_2023-10-03_175012963.png](///raw/223/f3/z/5f4eb.png)

Rincs

04. Oct 2023 · 03:06 UTC

I love it, even though I'm not very good cause I panic too much. xD

Ategon

04. Oct 2023 · 14:02 UTC

Great game

Have to post this here to beat ricky

![Screenshot 2023-10-04 100149.png](///raw/595/84/z/5f957.png)

HacksawUnit

04. Oct 2023 · 16:41 UTC

I struggled to 'get' the game for a bit, but there's a lot of really cool stuff here with surprising amounts of depth. The movement mechanics were very alien to me- I've never really played a game like it... cycycling around to shift things in directions kind of reminds me of dialing with a radial dial phone, if that makes any sense. Anyway, the aesthetic is lovely, and even if I haven't had it fully "click" I appreciate all that is here. Great job! :D

LDJam user 2331

04. Oct 2023 · 17:16 UTC

@hacksawunit: Thanks for giving it a go! Yeah the movement can be a little unintuitive at first- it might help to picture it as a mouse-controlled [15 puzzle](https://static.jam.host/raw/b19/z/5f9ae.gif) where Adelie is the empty tile. :)

HacksawUnit

04. Oct 2023 · 17:26 UTC

@meep I think my biggest confusion was thinking that, at first, the timer was for me to decide what my single move was, rather than a window of time for me to make as many movements as I could! After that it made more sense, although controlling a game like this was still very unique and challenging to my mind- of course, not a bad thing!

Agraffs

05. Oct 2023 · 07:20 UTC

Interesting game, like the principale. Was really fun once you get the hang of it, nice idea the add the timer on the bottom that really spices things up. A really good jam project. GG.

Took the time to try your other games, the idea of having a recurring character is a cool.

Ategon

05. Oct 2023 · 07:39 UTC

Thanks for submitting the game to the stream! If you wanted to watch it again in the future heres the vod timestamped to your game

https://youtu.be/OMFzVKOU-1I?si=nBtsSSLCwAv8mytV&t=1305

LDJam user 243193

05. Oct 2023 · 07:50 UTC

I need to find better tactic for this game but nice game nonetheless.

Blazejmg917

05. Oct 2023 · 17:56 UTC

Great Game! Love the P&D-type puzzling used in a different system!

LDJam user 2331

05. Oct 2023 · 18:01 UTC

@blazejmg917: Thanks! Was hoping a fellow P&D player would stumble on and recognize this. :D

Little Doctor Games

05. Oct 2023 · 23:42 UTC

Despite me being utter trash at this game, the adorable graphics and sounds and novel idea kept me playing! Once I figured out how to manipulate the seals and penguins I got a bit better at it, but admittedly not by much lol. And of course I gotta show love to a fellow Pico 8 dev!!! Great stuff!!

HelloImBenjamin

06. Oct 2023 · 05:53 UTC

Great Job! I love the cute graphics and just overall how it plays.

amarokczukay

06. Oct 2023 · 08:19 UTC

Great to see a new Adelie adventure! incredible to see what you've put in WHAT?? 9 HOURS??? that's incredible! pixel art is super nice, permutation puzzle is a cool gameplay (i'm super bad at it but i love it haha!).

i wonder what would happen if you don't have a timer but a certain number of moves each turn. i think it could be a little bit less stressful, but idk…

GettingRekt

06. Oct 2023 · 09:12 UTC

Great game with the visuals and the gameplay. Alot of polish as well. But oh boy did it make me feel stupid, stupid and slow at the same time. Even with a gaming mouse there is quite easy to get lost in the sauce at normal speed, I wouldn't dare to try to play this with a trackpad. I guess I'm just too old.

LDJam user 2331

06. Oct 2023 · 13:13 UTC

@amarokczukay: A movecount tracker would be interesting, but might be hard to compare with the randomness of the seal spawns. There is an alternate ending though based on minimum turns taken- surrounding a seal with baby penguins makes it a good seal, which prevents bad seals from spawning in those cells. Completely filling up the empty space with good seals gets this ending. :D

Krassenstein

06. Oct 2023 · 17:25 UTC

Thanks for letting me play this! Excellent job!

Here's the VOD on YouTube to watch the gameplay, just skip to your chapter on the video!
https://youtu.be/-eCnQ8GAhN8

Hawkin

12. Oct 2023 · 01:41 UTC

This is addictively tricky! It's like a "missing tile" puzzle, but fast paced! I definitely need a lot of practice to get that quick, so I appreciate the "timeless" mode. A great pico title as always.

HagamosVideojuegos

13. Oct 2023 · 05:23 UTC

I'm really bad in your game but I like it a lot!

Good graphics, interesting game design and theme use...

Well done! Take a candy! :candy:

LDJam user 4886

13. Oct 2023 · 12:17 UTC

Ok, I had to set it to unlimited time, and then I started having fun, because it was indeed stressing! :D I only got to turn 5. Maybe I'm not a good penguin parent...

Keely-Brown

14. Oct 2023 · 13:45 UTC

Very cool mechanics, even though I was terrible at them. Really appreciated the infinite mode which gave some space to figure out the mechanics in a less hectic situation. The aesthetic and theming were also both very good.

LDJam user 250426

20. Oct 2023 · 06:13 UTC

i wasnt too good at the normal mode, but i loved the no time limit mode so i could go for the true ending hehehehe >:D

![AdelieSomeoneLikeYou.png](///raw/a32/d3/z/6079f.png)
great job meep, especially for a 9 hours wthex xD