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A jam submission

In a World of John and Paul I'm a MoldView game page

A puzzle game abut molds growing in a Petri dish
Submitted by Palantir98, Andrea Zanin, remo.gd, Scottona — 1 hour, 39 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#34.5714.571
Accessibility#33.8293.829
Controls#34.1144.114
Overall#34.0294.029
Fun#64.1434.143
Originality#74.1434.143
Audio#263.5713.571
Graphics#333.8293.829

Ranked from 35 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Godot Version
We used Godot 4.4

Wildcards Used
We implemented the One-Handed wildcard

Game Description
This is a puzzle game about a mold trying to grow in a Petri dish!

How does your game tie into the theme?
The objective of the game is to grow the mold without dying

Source(s)
N/A

Discord Username(s)
Andrea Zanin, Palantir98, Sugo98

Participation Level (GWJ Only)
This is our 3rd game jame

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Submitted

An ‘undo’ mechanic would be nice on death.

On the 3 puzzle games I played this jam so far, this was the most engaging logic wise

I eventually got stumped by lvl 19

Nice game! :D

Developer(+1)

Thank you :)

Happy to hear that it was a good challenge for you. We will definitely add the undo button if we will decide to expand the game!

Submitted(+1)

I really enjoyed this! cool puzzle mechanic with a lot of variation and a good amount of levels. I didn’t manage to beat level 32 yet, it’s quite tricky (which is fun). my only complaint is that there’s no undo button — I guess that would have been a lot of work. awesome entry regardless!

Developer(+1)

Thank you! Yep, the undo button ended up being cut, we only kept the 'reset level' which was quite easier.

Submitted(+1)

Wonderful puzzle game! You understood the core mechanic really well clearly as all the variations on it were great! The gradual introduction of complexity with each level for each mechanic was really well done. Music and visuals were really solid too, I loved the style of the background image along with the mold itself. Really nice challenge curve too, 32 had me stumped for awhile! Excellent job!

Developer

Thank you, we did everything by ourselves but we had a really good team and we are happy to hear that each piece turned out to be solid :)

Submitted(+1)

Dang, that's a solid puzzle game! Such a simple, yet surprisingly complex idea. I'm gonna have to spend more time on this. My mold isn't very smart.

Developer

Thank you :)

Some levels are quite tricky, so feel free to ask if you need any tips but with some trial and error I'm sure you can solve all of them!

Submitted(+1)

Super fun puzzle game! A really impressive amount of content and mechanics. I really enjoyed the difficulty curve, it felt like a nice balance of easy to difficult while new mechanics were being introduced, the last puzzle was pretty tough, but it was very satisfying to solve it! Great work!

Developer

Thanks! Happy to hear that we properly balanced the difficulty :)

Submitted(+1)

Awesome puzzle, the mechanics are clear and expand smoothly. 32 levels is a really great job. Did you test them manually? A few months ago I made my first game, also a puzzle and it was hard to test only 10 levels to remove shortcuts. Or I am just a bad puzzle designer :D
Nice game, well done!

Developer

Thank you!

We developed the levels firstly "by hand", drawing them for instance on excel to have a grid just to have an idea. Then, on Godot, we had a TileMapLayer that was used to generate the levels and we mainly used that to test the levels without the need to actually play them, we just needed to draw the result of moves. Finally we also did some playtests on the actual game but the main focus was ar TileMapLayer level.

Puzzles were limited enough that removing shortcuts was easy, but many levels can still be solved in multiple ways.

Submitted(+1)

Awesome game! Very clever puzzle that made my head think, good job!

Developer

Thank you, glad to have given you a challenge!

Submitted(+2)

This game is brilliant! I legit love it. Very rewarding figuring out the puzzles. Great aesthetic design. Perfect game jam entry. No notes.

Great work!

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much! Really appreciated

Submitted(+1)

Really challenging game, nice job

Developer

Thank you :)

Submitted(+1)

This is a really cool abstract puzzle. You did a great job creating so many levels. This isn’t the kind of game that will keep me for long, but I enjoyed how everything is neatly designed. I clearly felt the progress in understanding the game mechanics through trial and error, and that’s a very rewarding feeling for a puzzle.

Developer

Thank you for the kind feedback :)

Submitted(+2)

Yess I beat it! It took all my mold brain power but I beat it! Great job on the game, it's super polished and tons of mechanics/levels. Feels like a complete flash game that you'd find on old flash websites!

Developer(+1)

Happy to hear that it was a good challenge for you and the levels difficulty turned out to be just right :)

Submitted(+2)

Very nice use of the them, fun puzzle game. Great job! 

Developer

Thanks :)

Submitted(+1)

Nice game ! Really liked the use of the theme and how you implemented it ! =) It's definitely a great little puzzle game !

Developer(+1)

Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

I loved this instantly, I didn’t even need time for it to grow on me. The mechanics you introduce break the mold of other puzzle games. I’m outta puns now. My only issue is now my brain wants to solve mold puzzles instead of working.

Developer (1 edit)

Sick puns ahahah. Wish we used them in the description of the game but english is not our first language and we couldn't think of them.

Anyhow, happy that you liked it!

Submitted(+1)

It took a while to get there but I did it! Seeing all the mechanics, you did such a great job making them all of the “plausible”.

Submitted(+1)

Very good! The challenges kept me hooked until the last level. Vibes are good.

If anything, I would maybe speed up dying animations.

..Did I just spot something suspicious in one of the levels?

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the feedback :)

Sometimes the mold can grow in strange patterns but nothing suspicious was intended

Submitted(+1)

Very cool concept. I didn't do all the levels, but I found the difficulty very well-balanced, which is super hard to do in a puzzle game!

Developer(+1)

Thanks! Really appreciated

Submitted(+2)

Nice implementation of the theme - simple and elegant. Some levels are genius, while the others just good. Dying time is too long. Got stuck on level 32 :(

Developer

We are happy that you liked it! We agree on the dying time being a bit slow, we planned for an animation speed setting but never implemented it.

The last levels are quite difficult but you should be able to go back and try them any time since the unlocked levels are saved in your browser.

Submitted(+2)

Hell yeah! This game is awesome. Love this submission. Good job guys. The later levels got quite challenging and really expanded on your concepts, lots of fun and great interpretation of the theme with lots of creativity. I like the art and the lab theme.

If there were to be a later version of this game, I would want a previous turn button so I didn't have to repeat my moves as much as things became more challenging - so the player can really fiddle with the puzzle with ease. A small note on accessibility, is that there's a potential danger of colourblind issues so a texture or pattern on the green slime would be nice. Although, saying that, I am colourblind and managed okay. 

Submitted(+1)

Got up to level 32 >:D

Submitted (2 edits)

Went back to try the final level again and I think I was getting close, encountered a small bug.


Developer

Damn, complicated levels may have some unexpected interactions unfortunately... We'll definitely look into that bug

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the feedbacks! There are definitely many things we could have added but didn't manage in time.

We also had concerns about accessibility for colorblind people but could not address them in time, happy to hear that you could still play the game up to its final level :)

Submitted(+1)

No problem :D thanks for making the game y'all

Submitted(+2)

Really clever puzzle game, well done! It fits the theme very well and the concept is very unique. Great job!

Developer

Happy to hear that you liked it!

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