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A jam submission

Waidan: Outer AlchemyView game page

Master the 5 Elements of chinese alchemy in this quick puzzle game about making machines
Submitted by XenixStudios — 4 hours, 22 minutes before the deadline
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Waidan: Outer Alchemy's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Innovation#53.6253.625
Aesthetics (Art or music)#83.6883.688
Your personal opinion#103.3753.375
Overall#103.4693.469
Use of chosen theme#293.1883.188

Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Theme its based on
Symmetry: Yin and Yang

Any pre-made / AI assets used (if applicable)
Song credit: One Sly Move - Kevin MacLeod

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Comments

Host(+1)

Christ its completely wild to make an entire Zachlike for a jam entry! I fully loved this, amazing how many quality of life aspects you managed to get in there, arranging the command order feels really intuitive and the UI and symbols are all easily readable

Honestly this is one of the most impressive games ive seen in a pizza jam, amazing work ✨

Submitted

Really inovative mecanic! Great job. A tuorial would be good but I was able to figure it out eventually. Cant wait to see what you do with it after the jam!

Submitted

I ran into a bug not letting me complete the advanced fusion level, once i brought the combined part over, it wouldnt accept it and dissapear. Other than that actual 10/10 This is by far the most time ive spent on a game in this jam. Would love to see a longer version of this game

Submitted

This one is definitely require a comprehensive reading on the help section. It took awhile to understand, but once figured it's a good game.  Still for a game jam, it should be easy enough to be played by other people. the art music and functionality is great. Overall, a great but complex game, well done!

Submitted

Cool game and good implementation of the theme, I really liked the graphics and quite interesting gameplay and well chosen music, although at first you need to spend a little time to understand how to play

Submitted

Wow! This game is fantastic and you should be super proud of yourself. I loved the concept and honestly didn't want to stop playing. It is definitely a bit challenging but I really enjoy how your level design and tutorials slowly introduced you to greater complexity. 

A couple updates that I think would make this game even better. The ability to copy grabber arms and group select to move objects. The help board is pretty good but a little more detail could be nice. Oh also maybe a fast forward mode, I like that you can iterate but once you've got the puzzle figured out it would be nice to speed up the cycles to either see a mess up later or hopefully complete the level. 

Again, such a fantastically fun puzzle game!

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much! The is the nicest comment I've ever gotten :)

I agree, being able to copy paste arm data and move multiple things around at once would definitely be super nice. The UX in general is rather plain at the moment, which definitely makes it less intuitive to know what's going on. I really appreciate the in depth feedback, again thank you so much! 

Submitted

I can see the likes of this game working for someone.
May not be for me but, it be nice.

Submitted

A really nice zach-like. I also liked the ability to make your own level and save them. Good job!

Developer

Thank you! Unfortunately I learned right at the end of the project that WebGL doesn't properly support copy and pasting from the clipboard so that part is still inconsistent, but when the jam is over I'll post the windows build which does work properly 

Submitted

Not going to rate because I gave up early. This game needs a tutorial to follow to understand as its very complex

Developer

Hey, thank you for checking it out! If you click on the help button in the main game it'll bring up a few pages of tutorials that should help you out