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A jam submission

Project Chain HealingView game page

Heal with chain reactions in this sokoban-style puzzle game!
Submitted by Nekkabi, TheZoniCM — 15 hours, 7 minutes before the deadline
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CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#1044.0004.000
Fun#1803.6213.621
Overall#1803.7593.759
Presentation#3053.6553.655

Ranked from 29 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Preferred Name
Nekkabi
Toni

Newbie?

Experienced

Nope - I've completed at least one game jam before.

How does your game fit the theme?
The player has to move all microbes into position so a chain reaction that will destroy all of them can (just) get started

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Submitted(+1)

Unfortunately, since I'm kinda bad at puzzle games and want to be rating all of what games I possibly can, I wasn't able to cover the full game. That said, from what I saw, this is a very competently made puzzle game. The only real feedback that I can really think of is that I'd like to see the explosions have some color to them. Otherwise, this is a very well-made puzzle game, fantastic job

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad you liked it ^_^

Submitted(+1)

Looking back at this I was very tired when I wrote that comment, I meant to say I'd like to see the explosions have some animation* to them not color, they already have good colors. But again, very good game otherwise, I just need to correct the record there and not make me look like a fool xd

Submitted(+1)

Great game! I liked the puzzles and the music. One suggestion: If the player fails, let them undo their last move instead of completely restarting the level. It was frustrating to have to completely redo the level just because I was facing the wrong way when I pressed space.

Developer

Happy to hear you enjoyed our game! Also nice suggestion, I understand the frustration! We would have liked to add the ability to undo after pressing space but could not due to time >_< We will add it in a patch after the jam ^_^

Submitted(+1)

Cool game! Great difficult puzzles! I loved it!

Developer

Thank you! ^_^

Submitted(+1)

Damn, very awesome puzzle game , got stuck at level 2 only for like 5  minutes but eventually managed to go till level 6

Also the music change in every level...amazing work, :D

Developer

Thank you for the kind words ^_^

Submitted(+1)

who out of you is Mr Johann Sebastian Bach?? Each level with one unique piece of music?? 

At least until I reached, level 6 just seemed to much for my little brain-

Great job! Also appreciate a lot the option to go back 1 move with Z.

Reminds me of those puzzles where I had to move rocks in Pokemon Diamond and Pearl.

Lovely game!


Submitted(+1)

Also the start menu looks very clean!

Developer

Thanks for playing! Happy to hear you liked our game ^_^

Submitted(+1)

Level 4 song went CRAZY at the beginning, this was a fun puzzle game really had to work my brain in figuring out what angle of explosion would be the best to cause a chain reaction Awesome Game  

Developer

Thanks for playing! Happy to hear you liked it ^_^

Submitted(+1)

An interesting puzzle game. It's fun, tough sometimes and the reactions are satisfying to watch:)

Developer

Thanks! Glad you liked it ^_^

Submitted(+1)

Awesome puzzle game, really makes you work those braincells.

Love it!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing! ^_^

Submitted(+1)

Very cool idea for a puzzel game. The puzzels where challenging but not to difficult.
I also like the art style. With a little polish and more art (background and levels) this could be a game on steam.

Good job :)

Developer

Thanks for playing! We are seriously considering doing a full release with more content and better polish, so the game being on steam might be a reality in the future ^_^

Submitted(+1)

Great game! Those last few levels were brutal, it must’ve taken me 3–4 hours to complete the entire game. The music added a funny contrast: chill piano playing while I stared at the screen like a maniac, trying to figure out my next move.

Suggestion: Allow the player to rewind after starting the chain.

Developer

Thanks! I'm happy to hear you liked the game ^_^ and yeah I made the last few levels extra hard haha.

Thanks for the suggestion! It's a great idea, I don't like either how right now you can mess up at the end and have to restart the whole level because you started the chain. We will look into adding that and few more fixes for common issues in a later patch after the jam!

Submitted(+1)

Cool take on the Sokoban formula. It took me way too long on some of the puzzles haha.

One thing I suppose I have a bit of a weird feeling about is the mismatch between the themes, the visuals and the music. It feels weird when it's supposedly healing people then it triggers explosion and the music is so chill with a sort of otherwise weird looking faces XD

Otherwise I think it's a nice little puzzle game.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing ^_^

Yeah I went a bit crazy with the difficulty of some levels haha. Yeah I agree that we could have conveyed the theme better, the idea is that you are destroying the viruses inside people in order to heal them, we would have liked to add an animation or something in order to show it but had to cut it due to time >_<

Thanks for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Aw yeah, what a neat take on a sokoban game! I had a lot of fun with it, this could be such great full release. I bet some big puzzle streamers would really enjoy it. The puzzles are fun, the music is lovely, and the art is cute as well. Thanks for submitting this one!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing ^_^ I'm glad you had fun with it, we're seriously considering doing a full release out of it!!

Submitted(+1)

Do it!!

Submitted(+1)

For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out level 13. But great puzzle game! I also liked that the different microbes were introduced in easier levels, so I could figure out what they do before having to struggle with them.

Developer

Thanks for playing! I'm glad you liked the game ^_^ For what I've seen a lot of people struggle with level 13 >_<

Submitted(+1)

The music and visuals are great, almost aquatic in that believable otherworldly way. Puzzles progress in difficulty and incorporate more and more elements as the level progress. I am amazed that you managed to create 15 levels on such a short notice. Games like these definetely benefit from take-back button and I was glad to see it here. If I were to nitpick, I would like to hear a unique explosion sound for different microbes to get a nice symphony on victory runs (my game also doesn't differentiate souds for units so that's being extremly nitpicky). Overall, had a blast. 

Developer

Thanks for playing! I'm glad you liked our little game ^_^

Thanks to using godot's tilemap system, creating the levels was not as painful as might seem, but yeah definitely had to replace some sleep hours with level making anyway >_<

The microbes playing different sounds when exploding is actually a crazy good idea >_> Will play with the concept for sure if we get to do a full game release, thanks!!!

Thanks for such a banger review :3

Submitted(+1)

I love tehse sokoban style games but wow, the piano music so beautiful I acidentally left it on it the background and didn't even realise it was from a game haha. It's a very unique concept I've never seen before, but I don't know if this was just for me but I coulldn't find a way to full screen the game? which made it annyoing to look for the different explosion types. Also if you could make the chain reactions explode faster, maybe that's my tiktok brain but it was a bit annoying/boring to wait for the animations to play, really good game though.

Developer(+1)

I'm glad you enjoyed the music and the game ^_^

You can fullscreen the game from the options menu but honestly I just noticed thanks to your comment that the default fullscreen button that normally shows on the bottom corner is nowhere to be found in our game, I must have messed it up when exporting the project >_<

About the explosions being too slow, it's definitely a valid point of criticism and we're looking forward to make a patch for the game after the jam that will fix that issue along several others like the movement not being very polished.

Thanks again for playing and for your feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Haha no worries, now you know at least and yeah you could prob add a 2x button or something but I'm sure you guys got that. This is a shameless ask but if you guys could play my game and give me some feedback I woulld be so grateful ;)

Submitted (2 edits) (+1)

Level 12 was my favorite; it took me a while to figure out, but the progression of slowly figuring out each section of the solution, and then finally watching the chain reaction, was so fun.  Even when I was stumped on a level for a long time,  I never felt lost on what to do. There were always a few microbes placed in odd positions that made it clear how the chain reaction was generally supposed to go; then, it was just a matter of solving the Sokoban puzzle to get the microbes in the right order - great level design!

My only critique is that I wish I could hold down the movement and rewind, similar to 'Baba is You.' With a little more convenient controls,  I would definitely play this as a full game!

Also, the music is great in all levels, but the level 13 song is phenomenal

Developer(+1)

Thanks! I'm so glad you enjoyed the level design ^_^ I spent a lot of time designing the levels so the solutions where not too obvious and uninteresting but they did not feel random either, so it's nice to see it was worth the effort!

Also thanks for the feedback! We will definitely work on a patch after the jam addressing some common issues like the movement and the speed of the animations, so hold down movement will be coming soon® !! We're also considering doing a full release with more levels and new microbes we had to cut from the jam due to time constraints (and probably some more), but can't say anything for sure yet :v

Submitted(+1)

This is a cool puzzle game I always felt so satisfied when I figured out the chain on a level. Great work!

Developer

Thanks! Nice to hear you enjoyed our game ^_^

Submitted(+1)

This was a really cool game! The last 3 puzzles had me stumped for quite a while, especially 13, but I got them in the end.! I also really like the aesthetics of the clipboard and the microbes. It was clever to have them display their reaction pattern on the sprite, but be subtle about it so it didn't look out of place.

Developer

Thanks a lot! The sprites of the microbes was something that we iterated on quite a bit until we were satisfied with them, so I'm very glad you liked them!!! Also congrats on beating the whole game, I definitely went a bit crazy with the difficulty on the last levels so it means a lot when someone enjoys the game enough to beat them ^_^

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

This puzzle game proved yet again what an 70Iq well versed indidual I am. Forgot to write the criticism: faster movement would have proven a bit better

Developer

Yeah we went crazy with the difficulty of some levels haha. Thanks for the feedback, movement and animation speed is definitely something we will improve into the future!

Submitted(+1)

Very chill puzzle game. Really liked the idea on it, with the whole chain reactions. Very well executed, only concern is that you have to mash the direction where you want to go. Still enjoyed it, Great job!

Developer

I'm happy to hear you enjoyed our game! The controls are definitely a bit rough, I'm considering doing a patch post jam improving them and a couple other things, thanks a lot for the feedback ^_^

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