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Shapeshifter
My game in Love2D for Ludum Dare 35
A puzzle game that takes the theme Shapeshift very literally.
The goal is to clear the shape tokens from the board by forming the shapes inside the tokens with other tokens. Shift the tokens left, right, up or down to get them into the correct position, then add a new row until you can't shift any more.
* Hover over a row/column with the mouse pointer
* Left or Right mouse buttons shifts current row left or right
* Mouse Wheel Up or Down shifts current column up or down
* Middle mouse button adds an additional row and clears any matches
If no proper mouse is present, use your pointer device to hover over a token and WASD to shift and SHIFT/SPACE to add an additional row
The more shapes you clear, the more varied the shapes get!
Tools Used:
Love2D for the engine
bfxr for the SFX
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 100% |
| #102 | Innovation | 3.82 |
| #239 | Overall | 3.48 |
| #303 | Theme | 3.62 |
| #423 | Fun | 3.20 |
Comments
Could use better cues when you're about to lose. Interesting idea nevertheless.
Hahaha that got crazy confusing fast, Well done! a lovely game with nicely polish graphics and game play.
Fun puzzle concept! Appealingly clean visual communication.
Nice concept and good fun, nice one.
Only issue was the fact that you can "shift" entire lines/rows even if shapes should block them since all shapes "pack up" on the corners.
Makes the game very trivial (and repetitive without much thought) since you can just pack everything up on the sides and clean as you go. Think preventing shifting of lines/rows if a shape on that line/row is touching the side of the screen would add a lot of brainstorming needed.
Other than that, very cool and clean :)
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Really nice game even if a bit unintuitive at first. But still addictive later :p
Not a huge puzzle fan, but this was still pretty good to me. Liked the presentation
Great job. I liked what you did. I didn't think about doing this with the theme. Keep up the good work!
Im a simple man. I see minimal games, I play minimal games.
Cool game, I like that you can make combos by plugging several sphapes together. But I feel like it's too easy to survive by combining everything possible each turn. Have a limitation on how many move you can make each turn would be better I think. Keep up the good work
Nice aesthetic and fun gameplay. A good puzzle game. Well done ++
It's a great puzzle game! This could be the next 2048 or something haha. The concept is awesome, and it's a lot of fun to play. The challenge doesn't reveal itself till later on when you realize that you have to pay attention to a lot of things, which is realloy cool. The sound effects were good too.
The rules were a little hard to understand, but I guess that is the point since we need to figure out what is the best thing to do.
Overall, great, fun puzzle game! :) Great work!
Love the presentation! Why is graphics not a thing I can vote on?
This is a puzzle that made sense very quickly! Fantastic job with scaling the difficulty! nice!
excellent puzzle game :) could have been more player-friendly... but a solid entry !
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its a nice puzzle game. I could see people getting addicted to it