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Melas by mitkus

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made by mitkus for LD33 (JAM)
A game of agressively peaceful tactics.

Fight on the side of Robopeace organization against the evil Megacorp. Be stealthy and use the environment. We are strong together! Oh, and can you guess what's inside a SuperBox?

Have fun! We really enjoyed making this one.

I plan to upload linux tarball with source so you can build it yourself. Meanwhile, it should run really well with wine!

Authors:
Andrius Mitkus
Žygimantas Bruzgys
Martin Haag
Windows http://amitk.us/dl/melas-win.zip
OS/X http://amitk.us/dl/melas-mac.zip
Source https://bitbucket.org/mitkus/quibble
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=preview&uid=12293

Ratings

Coolness 54% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.24 500
Fun(Jam) 3.32 336
Graphics(Jam) 2.93 738
Humor(Jam) 3.08 367
Innovation(Jam) 3.50 174
Mood(Jam) 3.30 401
Theme(Jam) 2.79 926

Feedback

velvelajade
25. Aug 2015 · 02:59 UTC
I like the concept, but had a hard time figuring it out. The movement of the monster isn't very good.
lubos
25. Aug 2015 · 08:44 UTC
Its a pretty challenging puzzler, I enjoyed it a lot.
flatgub
25. Aug 2015 · 08:53 UTC
I really enjoyed the control system and the puzzles were really good! Well done!
jrhee
25. Aug 2015 · 15:33 UTC
Great puzzler!
dancingmad
25. Aug 2015 · 15:42 UTC
Nice concept! And the music is so jazzy :p
pixzleone
25. Aug 2015 · 19:59 UTC
Cool idea, and it´s very complete.
Hard to say where the monsters are gonna go tho :)
UntitledQ
25. Aug 2015 · 20:27 UTC
Some of the puzzles were almost too hard for me, but I made it to the end. Well done! :)

P.S. The SuperBoxes surely contain kitten jerky.
Damdoshi
25. Aug 2015 · 20:45 UTC
It takes me a few time to guess how to play, but after this, it was pretty cool. I like the puzzle concept.
yuigoto
26. Aug 2015 · 21:26 UTC
It was a bit hard to get the hangs of it first, but it was a nice play! :)

The challenges are really nice and well thought. Sometimes, the game reminded me a bit about sokoban. Maybe it was the boxes.

Anyway, the game was really well thought! Congrats! :)
reiknight
28. Aug 2015 · 13:53 UTC
Wow... the level design is awesome.
Drunkteam
29. Aug 2015 · 17:13 UTC
A very entertaining game, Indeed.Could be great more graphics.
jstclair13
30. Aug 2015 · 14:45 UTC
cool concept.
AlexSet
30. Aug 2015 · 19:37 UTC
Managed to reach it to the end, simple concept but great execution, good job!
puppetmaster
30. Aug 2015 · 19:48 UTC
Nice puzzler! Looks very simple but hard to master! Congrats for your entry.
LukeZaz
31. Aug 2015 · 22:27 UTC
Could do with controls being visible while in-game, but other than that it was well put-together!
Draknek
01. Sep 2015 · 16:22 UTC
UI needs better feedback: clicking frequently gives either very minimal feedback or no feedback at all. Ending your turn has no feedback if the enemies choose not to move. No visual indicator of whether a robot has moved and/or pushed this turn.

Mechanics were slightly more interesting than I was expecting, but when I got to a level I couldn't figure out, the enemy movement made it not very fun to keep trying at it. They seem to have very simple movement rules, but then sometimes they wouldn't move even if they had a path to me?

To put it another way, I think most good puzzle games allow you to look at a level and think everything through in your head. You can't do that so much here.

The level I got up to had two of my robots and three enemies, separated by a crate.
3CGames
03. Sep 2015 · 02:41 UTC
Cool puzzle, nice level-design!
schnerble
13. Sep 2015 · 19:35 UTC
Great work! Took me a minute to figure out what I was doing on the first level (I may be slow), but once I got going it was a good fun puzzler. I got stuck on the room with the enemy robot on the long corridor with the hole at the end.