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A jam submission

Mishap at the Shape Factory (with gnomes)View game page

A puzzle game where you transform shapes and their properties.
Submitted by WhiteMadness — 2 hours, 13 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#11183.9693.969
Enjoyment#17303.4693.469
Narrative#23322.7192.719
Artwork#27923.3443.344
Audio#35792.8442.844

Ranked from 32 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The shape machine is a feedback loop that outputs shapes that are fed back into the machine

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
https://freesound.org/people/Rudmer_Rotteveel/sounds/336005/
https://www.free-stock-music.com/escp-neon-metaphor.html
https://freesound.org/people/iainmccurdy/sounds/684796/
https://freesound.org/people/AudioPapkin/sounds/813058/
https://freesound.org/people/BMacZero/sounds/94131/
https://freesound.org/people/mwl500/sounds/49972/

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Madness and Gidrovoc

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Comments

Submitted

Nice puzzle game that gives the illusion of choice for a lot of the starting combinations. (I enjoyed ruling out certain patterns).

Submitted

very creative, you did a great job!

Submitted (1 edit)

Great puzzle game! Had to really think about it a couple times. Give that gnome a raise.

Submitted

Love the gnome. Great game! Fun puzzle concepts that really got me thinking! Good work! :D

Submitted

We almost started making game with the same mechanic but come up with a different idea after all :)

Mechanic itself feels nice and interesting but

  1. Clockwise and counter-clockwise images look almost the same and because of that it takes extra seconds to figure out what I want to do
  2. Game itself feels a bit slow, would be nice if it was a bit more realtime somehow (although, I realize it is not that easy to make and may be it’s just my clip culture)
Submitted

Well done! Good narrative! :D

Submitted

An actual puzzler from the meme!  The tutorial gnome was super handy.  But man, I don't have the brain for these puzzles right now, will have to come back when I'm not actively rating.  Great concept!

really enjoyed the concept of this game, but i could not for the life of me get past level 6 lol

Submitted

I guess we doin bangers now

Submitted

Damn, these shapes got hands. Really great puzzle game, I definitely spent more time than I should have on this XD. This gives heavy Flash Game vibes, love it!

Submitted

Really clever idea.  I too found the opening stage confusing, but that's just part of playing game jam games sometimes, ofc. 

Submitted

I guess we doing shapes of various size and colour now

Really fun ! I thought the puzzles ramped up a bit too quickly. I would've liked it if you had to lock in your machine and then run your shape through it the whole way. Regardless I really likey le gnoma

Submitted (1 edit)

Hello! I very much enjoyed playing your game. The in introduction level took me a bit to figure out I could hit the switch again and that the machine needs every slot to be filled but once I understood that everything else in the game was more or less intuitive. On the puzzles where there were a lot of steps the comment of the gnome really helped to just experiment. the puzzles seem to be crafted in a way in which you never have to undo too many steps which greatly helps the enjoyment of the game. The explosion of certain combinations is peek comedy and helps keeps from getting to lost in the puzzle. The comments of the little gnome guy on the factory lore also do a lot for making the game feel like its own little world, not just a puzzle game . Anyway after it all I only have one question. why does the factory need a large blue hexagon?  

Developer

Thanks! The hexagon is for the giant board game they're making where the gnomes are the pieces.

Submitted

I guess we doin circles and squares of every color now. Very cool puzzle game, I loved it!