{"id":1831,"edition":10,"categories":51,"features":0,"size":11825,"name":"PUZZLATORY","authors":[{"name":"xem","login":"xem","gh":1225909}],"description":"

YOU JUST FELL IN THE PUZZLATORY.

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WILL YOU GO TO HELL OR IN HEAVEN?

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ONE THING IS SURE, THIS PLACE HAS WEIRD LAWS OF PHYSICS.

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SOLVE SOME EVIL PUZZLES IN WHICH TIME AND SPACE CAN BE INVERTED, AND YOU WILL KNOW YOUR DESTINY.

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WEB MONETIZATION BONUS:

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DECENTRALIZED BONUSES:

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Impressive reverse gravity and reverse time puzzle! really hard to me

\n","games":["Escape from Death Hole"]},{"at":315659499,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"

A great entry as always, very well made.

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To have music, sounds, intro and some story is great.

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Love the flipping of the screen and box physics, some really neat puzzle ideas, some challenging too.

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Not tried out the bonus features but I have tested your level editor as you sent me a direct link and its very impressive.

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Also a great name ;)

\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"at":315687247,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"

Impressive and fun game mechanics. I always say a game with an intro screen is always promising, and I was right this time too. I like the timing with the music with the dialog. Fun story, and I like the messages in between levels. The difficulty curve is good, and I like the way new mechanics are presented.

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The hitboxes on the gravity switches are maybe too large? I felt I touched then when I didn’t. The gravity switch sound is screeching a little bit, but other than that the sound effects are good. The music is also mysterious and doesn’t get in the way of gameplay. Maybe if it were a couple of bars longer it wouldn’t feel to repetitive. That being said, it’s impressive to get this much in a game under 13kb. Solid entry!

\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"at":315808782,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"

As always, an interesting puzzle game, though I don’t really like this time reversal stuff.

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A bit nitpicking:\nSometimes the triggers seem a bit too sensitive, I several times accidentally activated a gravity inverter when I just stood near it to throw a cube there. On the other hand, some levels with two adjacent targets can actually be solved with just one cube.

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Also, restarting a level doesn’t work for me. Probably you forgot to call .preventDefault() for keyboard events, so my search kicks in and prevents it from working.

\n","games":["Yellow and Blue"]},{"at":315950106,"author":"Michael Primo","login":"michaelprimo","gh":10359577,"url":"https://michaelprimo.it","twitter":"MPMintis","text":"

Tried the game! It was fun, especially the cutscenes. Surely you need a bit of time understanding the puzzles, like one I solved by stucking two boxes in midair and some weird jumps I have done for example in one of the beginning levels where you had three blocks and you needed to put one of them to the other side. Really good and challenging game!

\n","games":["Bye Roll!"]},{"at":315999450,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"

Pretty impressive.

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The whole time rewinding and having to work out what to make the white and black versions of yourself do and with the right timings got complicated. The level flip was a nice mechanic.

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It was impressive the way you got the music to play backwards.

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I tried the level editor via Coil and couldn’t find a way out of it back to the main game, so had to restart.

\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":316065981,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"

Impressive game, technically speaking. Very polished.\nHowever, I was stuck early on, on the first level with all the reverse cubes. No idea what I’m supposed to do, but reading other comments, I must have missed some detail.\nThe controls are simple and very responsive, but the jumping physics is a bit frustrating. I think the jump is too short or too vertical, not sure.\nThe music is really well made, although the intro is a tad too loud.\nThe graphics are really nice, a throwback to old flash games.\nThe puzzles are super interesting, I wish I didn’t get stuck so early on.

\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"at":316099795,"author":"Matthew Diamant","login":"matthewdiamant","gh":806338,"text":"

Really thoughtout level design. Impressive to have all the dialogue and cutscene while putting in the monetization and decentralized stuff. Tons of awesome mechanics. Greate job.

\n","games":["There Can Be Only Death"]},{"at":316163208,"author":"Thiago Romão Barcala","login":"thiagorb","gh":821208,"text":"

This reverse black and white levels destroyed my brain, and I thought the way back would be easy.. boy I was wrong. Very challenging. Just nitpicking, the controls could be a bit easier, cause it was not so easy to time the jumping.

\n","games":["Death Tournament"]},{"at":316180921,"author":"Jerome Lecomte","login":"herebefrogs","gh":1383818,"url":"herebefrogs.com","text":"

Only you can dream up some evil, mind-bending puzzles like this!\nBonus points for the cinematic intro (and in-game jokes/sass)

\n","games":["Stand By Me"]},{"at":316755036,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"

Very clever puzzle mechanics and nicely polished intro and dialog throughout. Gives the game a nice feeling, plus is fun, plus acts as a guide, which is really smart.

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There were a couple things though that at least for me negatively affected my experience. The biggest is the upside down screen transition, it kind of hurt my eyes and gave me some motion sickness. As someone who plays vr and does a lot of sim racing, I don’t get motion sickness too easily, but the quick full screen flip effect was just really unpleasant for me.

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Imo, the whole thing would be much smoother if you simply reversed gravity and inverted the player and the box sprites, but kept the entire screen in place. However, thinking about it I’m not sure if that would negatively affect the gameplay.

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And to a lesser degree, I do think the jumping and movement are a little small/slow. It made some puzzles feel a bit frustrating and fiddly. I had solved it but it was too hard to move to the right place.

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However, I still enjoyed the game, and the thought behind the puzzles is super impressive, especially the reverse time stuff. Very smart and very polished. Great work!

\n","games":["Charon Jr."]},{"typ":2,"at":316956417,"author":"Anurag Banerjee","url":"https://linkedin.com/in/anuragbanerjee","twitter":"BanerjeeAnurag","text":"

The game was engaging, the intro was very cool and caught my attention for sure. The controls were good and self explanatory but the reverse puzzle was a bit too much for my taste.\nI had some issues in connecting to my wallet but was able to resolve it. The decentralized aspect was well covered and a few different aspects like Leaderboards, E-Shop were implemented.\nSo, overall, it is a well though out and fun game.

\n"},{"typ":2,"at":317260841,"author":"Taufik Sani","login":"tictacx-gm","gh":106235867,"url":"https://linkedin.com/in/taufiksani","twitter":"gorilatictacx","text":"

Creepy soundtrack, nice touch. Intro cutscenes are long, no way to skip them.

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You are crazy :D in a good way! followed the development of this on twitter and I am happy you finished it. The puzzles are really intense and challenging, out of ordinary, the “tenet” like time mess is quite mind bending. Love the texts and dialogs, made me crack some laugh! Is definitely very innovative! The music does get a bit annoying after a while

\n","games":["Dante"]},{"typ":2,"at":317291715,"author":"Paul Gadi","login":"polats","gh":26343,"url":"https://polats.com","twitter":"polats","text":"

Cool mechanics, the reverse time broke my brain! Nice narrative in the beginning and engaging text throughout the levels. Love the play on words in the title

\n"},{"typ":2,"at":317319441,"author":"Nathan Lie","login":"njlie","gh":20246798,"url":"https://coil.com","twitter":"feraltc","text":"

Nice puzzle game with some slightly janky platforming elements. The gravity reversers would trigger before it appeared as though I actually reached it. The sound balancing was a little off - the sound effects seemed much louder than the music. Otherwise it’s pretty solid.

\n"},{"typ":2,"at":317326761,"author":"Tim Sulmone","login":"Sikbik","gh":39201520,"url":"https://runonflux.io","twitter":"little_stache","text":"

Cool puzzle game with a lot of decentralized bonuses :D\nReally enjoyed the intro and ever-changing physics mechanics.

\n"},{"typ":2,"at":317365783,"author":"Ewa Mazur","login":"mypoint13k","gh":89944062,"url":"https://mypoint.pl","twitter":"mypoint13k","text":"

I really like the way you’re showing what the bonus for Coil Subscribers is - it’s well-visible, the bonus is also something that shows your effort and love to Supporters, but why is it also active when I’m a non-Subscriber? Is something not working correctly?

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