Very hard! I have been stuck! I don't understand how to make progress after 20 minutes and I want to! The core loop is interesting!
I get the panel with 4 colors lit up and then have no earthly idea what I can do.
Unlocking anything feels good and I read Mr_Cook's comment but still am totally stuck, even with trial and error😵
The buttons feel so good to press and it feels so good to make progress though, if someone posts a walkthrough (probably has to be video or written well) where I can get unstuck I will come back and try to beat it, I am determined!!
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GOLIATH LOOPER's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #134 | 4.429 | 4.429 |
| Artwork | #753 | 4.143 | 4.143 |
| Enjoyment | #754 | 3.857 | 3.857 |
| Audio | #1005 | 3.571 | 3.571 |
| Narrative | #5358 | 2.286 | 2.286 |
Ranked from 14 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?
A bomb defusing game with a focus on an absurdly short countdown.
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
All hand-made except for a couple heavily edited CC0 sounds.
Comments
50 days ago (+1)
Sorry you found it frustrating, I wanted to add more features to make the game easier but that was all I could do withing the time limit being solo.. As for the 4 buttons, they're a keypad for the big panel above them, they require a 6 character code that you can find elsewhere. Also, there is a pretty simple way to gain 10 seconds using the big green buttons. If you want to progress I think the best method is to only focus on one element or series of elements during a single loop and then chain everything once you've figured it out. Thanks for checking it out and giving it some time tho, I appreciate it !
53 days ago(+1)
Glad you enjoyed it ! For the extra time you just had to press the 4 green corner buttons in a single loop to get 10 seconds back but I probably should have made it clearer with some sound effects... Thank you so much for giving it a try and some time !
Oh that was it?! Hahahah damn, I thought I tried that but guess I only clicked 3 heh.
Okay did it now and finished with 2.3s left, literally let out a "woohoo" hahah, felt great!
Another really fun thing that also speaks to the cleverness of the puzzle is that, now afterwards I checked the order that Mr_Cook did it in, and I did it in a completley different order! I did the 4-digit code first! Being able to solve it in your own path really adds to the solve!
Thanks for the help and again really well done! :D
Time to Complete: 1hr 32m
What I Loved
- Love all the different button pressing sounds
- The everything graphic wise looked beautiful and everything I clicked sounded satisfying
- The gameplay loop
- Had to whip out the pen and paper for the shape code puzzle
What I Wished
- Had a desire to scroll out the camera with the scroll wheel to see the whole board (maybe just to see but not able to interact when zoomed out?)
- Wish it was more obvious when a puzzle would give time, I felt hopeless about the timer until I finished a puzzle that gave time
- When at the point of optimizing the run for getting the key and putting it in the hole I wish I had a quick restart button (like R) for when I messed up a puzzle and knew I wouldn't have enough time to get to the key hole
What needs Work
- No idea I had to press space on the first screen
- 3 countdown cycles to figure out that I has to press WASD to look around started by just clicking everything I could see
Overall I really enjoyed the game!
Extra Stuff I wrote down
Order I figured out the puzzles (might be useful):
- Was able to figure out the main goal after pressing the red button! Traced the red wire -> yellow -> blue wires/switches to a screw panel
- Was able to open the screwdriver panel but didn't have enough time to open the panel on the left (was slightly frustrated)
- I figured out that the green buttons gave extra time and was able to get the key out but I had no idea what I had to with it
- Next I decided to get the figure out the shape & color puzzle took a while to find the light switch that revealed a code and felt more joy when I figured out that the puzzle added even more time!
- I decided to figure out what the blue triangles did, I chained together and optimized the puzzled I finished to try and figure it out, took about 7-8 countdown cycles to chain all the puzzles together cleanly and get the code! Then I knew what I needed the key for!
- I first tried to finish the game by chaining together the 2 puzzles that add time then doing the screwdriver/key as fast a possible then entering the code/red button as fast as possible, was definitely not enough time
- Next I tried slowly but surely to chain all the puzzles into 1 big optimized run here is my final order:
order I took to finish: - screwdriver button 1 & bottom left green button - yellow to blue & blue write switch 1 - screwdriver button 2 & bottom right green button - 134312 color switches & blue wire switch 2 - screwdriver button 3 & top left green button - screwdriver button 4 & top right green button - screwdriver - blue wire switch 3 & blue wire switch 4 - open panel & blue wire switch 5 - key & blue to yellow switch - number keypad & red button - key hole
Good Game!
55 days ago(+1)
Awesome ! Thanks for checking it out ! I wish I had time to make a map that reveals the different connections as you progress in between each loop, that was a day one want and same for the restart button 😭. Other than that I feel like the difficulty is definitely gonna gonna lower the review count, so I'm so glad you gave it so much time ! + You gave some ideas to add to the page so thank you !
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