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This is wonderful. My first playthrough had me thinking about the two different types of “attack”. If you want to make a very precise piece of artwork, you need to rely on the lightning, which means you need to take your time and be patient.

So for my second playthrough, I tried to make a self-portrait, embracing the little mistakes and misfires that happened along the way. If I was even more patient, maybe there’d be no mistakes at all, but would I prefer that artwork?

I’d forgotten that the tiles cover up the play area as they approach the center. As I was staring at the screen, wondering what to do, sound effects begun playing - a tick and a tock every time the player hits the left and right edges. Those sounds allowed me to continue painting! Very cool moment.

Thanks for making this, I’ll be thinking about it a lot!

The original has been on my mind ever since seeing it on Bluesky, this is a powerful yet simple game!

Its interesting that the game/rules never make a value judgement, or outright say that you shouldn’t be killing bugs (aside from the “endgame”, maybe).

But asking yourself “why” always makes it seem like a very silly choice. You don’t stop yourself from killing a bug because thats righteous, you stop yourself because “its annoying” or “its inconvenient” don’t seem like very good reasons to do so.

Beautiful!

More Sokofox, yay!!! The art and music are wonderful, I found all the collectibles, and I am excited for the full release!

I’m not sure if it was the game, or just my emulator, but there was no “key repeat”, i.e. you’d only move once if you held down a direction key. “Input buffering” would also be nice, especially when you are mashing buttons just to make enemies move faster 😄

I’m really sorry to hear that, I like your games a lot :(

We don’t really know each other that well, but if you want to chat about anything, my email is configurationstep@hotmail.com

If you’re moving on from games to focus on something else, then I wish you the best with it!

Saw you deleted your discord account - everything all good?

Really nice! The “focus” mode adds so much.

I love the colour palettes, too. There seems to be a little bit of magic going on, beyond just “pick 2 complimentary hues”, and it generates some really lovely ones sometimes!

Are you using a web browser, or the itch app? You may need to click the game window before it will accept keyboard inputs!

Cool puzzle, love the sound design! Door…

Really lovely puzzles and presentation! For me, the 4th flower felt much easier to work out than the 3rd flower - I was stuck on grove M for so long! 😅

Lovely little world, beautiful artstyle, I really enjoyed the water temple.

I hope the decision to make the lute “out of key” with the rest of the world was deliberate, because I found it so striking. I wanted to join in with everybody’s music, but I didn’t like the way it sounded when I did, so I found myself more often sitting there silently and listening to everyone else stomp and plonk. Such a unique feeling!

The wind whipping through the pixellated grass is so, so lovely.

The final 3 puzzles are so good!

Super cute! You’ve done a good job of balancing the grid-based mechanics with real-time platforming, I didn’t even realise it was grid-based until about halfway through

This is a really cool and unique puzzlescript game!

Brilliant puzzle!

Wonderful message!

One of my favourite examples of this is when textures and sprites are just PNGs, and you can edit them and put your own silly characters into a game. It’s so annoying when all the assets are packaged into a big monolithic black box file!

I like the mechanic of gaining height only one tile at a time, and the bat is so cute!

I made a custom level - I tried to make it as hard as possible! Good luck to anyone who tries it out (requires the source code) 😄

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I love “construction” puzzlescript games like this. The visuals don’t really match the mechanics (buckets fusing together?) but the mechanics are awesome, and all the levels are great.

Very cool mechanics and level design - I especially liked 12, 16 and 17, they all had fun tricks.

The controls sometimes felt sticky and unresponsive, I believe this is because of the “again” keyword. You can improve the responsiveness by lowering “again_interval” in Puzzlescript 🙂

Super fun! I love how the map structure & checkpoint system work together, its very unique! Backtracking is often quicker than resetting to the center, so you get to experience the challenge of moving through each room from multiple directions.

The lack of tutorial might be a turn-off for some people (the difficulty starts very high, there is no “easy” rooms) but I encourage those people to keep at it! Ignore all the garlic and just explore :)

The art is really cute, too!

This is really fun! Tip for those playing on MacOS: if your keyboard inputs are getting eaten every time you hold down the Z key, inspect the HTML and search for <textarea id="codo_textarea"> and delete it. Fixed the issue for me 🙂

Now, to keep climbing…

Finding the gold medal route in level 2 is a lot of fun. Cool game!

I believe rolling barrels against the screen edge is a glitch, you won’t ever need to do that to solve a puzzle.

For the puzzle in the screenshot - try doing things in a different order 😁

A lovely tribute to a fascinating place! Love all the fun facts and visual polish, and the puzzles get much harder than I was expecting them to - Ardbeg and Bowmore took some real thinking!

Here’s a medium difficulty custom level! Hopefully there’s no cheese 😬

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(Code has one less “break” than the screenshot, see comment below 😈)

The last two levels are so so good, wow!

Only three levels in, but I already love this!

It’s a complex set of mechanics, but the visuals make them all feel natural and intuitive - really impressive!

Really cool, and such a nice length - each level presents a unique idea

This is great, the L/R mechanic is a fun twist on snake sokoban!

A little bit tricky to visually parse at first, but very satisfying and challenging once you work out what everything is!

This is really nice, the soundtrack is lovely too!

I’m stuck on chapter 4, would love a hint if someone has one 😅 Here’s my (incorrect?) understanding of the rule, in ROT13:

Bar bs gur cynargf vf n “yvne” naq jnagf bar zber be yrff guna vgf pbybhe jbhyq hfhnyyl fhttrfg - V qba’g xabj ubj gb gryy juvpu cynarg vf gur yvne gubhtu?

Very smooth difficulty curve, the later levels get tricky!

Love the sense of humour too - “they no longer ask me that” followed by the next level, was a great moment.

Really fun - I liked how you had to return to previously solved rooms and reconfigure them throughout the puzzle

Very satisfying to solve, and the one-word answer made me chuckle when I found it 😄

Good luck with Enigmarch!

This was fun!

I enjoyed all the puzzles, though sometimes the movement speed felt somewhat slow. It felt great in the earlier levels, but when the levels became larger and harder (more resets) the slowness started to become noticeable for me.

Very minor thing - it’d be great if you could hold down the push/pull button and walk into a crate to grab it. Sometimes I would press the button slightly too early and it wouldn’t grab because I wasn’t close enough yet. Maybe I’m just impatient 😅

I love how the 10th level felt like a combination of all the mechanics learned in earlier levels, but still required some brainpower to put them together in the right order, it was a nice way of ending the demo.

Good luck with the full version, this is a great concept!

My best guess is that the “secret puzzle” is the one in the thumbnail, which doesn’t feature in the game. I could be wrong though!

Deleted my other comment after reading MetaMetaPuzzle’s solution, because I was embarrassed by how badly I misunderstood the puzzle, but its too funny not to share. Hope you get a laugh out of this 😂

So good!!

Is the solution (rot13) gung gurer ner checyr ivyyntrf haqrearngu gur oynpxrarq znexf, orpnhfr gur qrfpevcgvba fnlf gurer ner gra ivyyntrf naq jr bayl frr rvtug?

(Feel free to delete this if you don’t want spoilers in the comments)