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Help mother nature to overwhelm the wild industrialization!
How To Play:
The board consists of "natural" and "industrial" tiles.
When you click over a tile, all its neighbours get inverted.
The goal is to obtain a table full of natural tiles.
Controls:
LMB: Select tile
RMB: Rotate view
Scroll wheel: Zoom
Note: Mac and Linux versions not tested, if you experience any problem, please let me know!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NickZangus
Email: contact@nickzangus.com
Credits:
All the contents were created during the 72 hours except for the followings:
Music by Kevin MacLeod - incompetech.com
Font by Lauren Thompson - www.nymfont.com
Sound Effects by freeSFX - www.freesfx.co.uk
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 81% |
| #17 | Graphics(Jam) | 4.67 |
| #73 | Mood(Jam) | 3.96 |
| #73 | Overall(Jam) | 3.93 |
| #224 | Fun(Jam) | 3.54 |
| #681 | Innovation(Jam) | 2.90 |
| #733 | Humor(Jam) | 2.21 |
| #752 | Theme(Jam) | 3.39 |
Comments
really nice game, probably the most polished I've ever played in a ludum dare.
Wow... Such a beautiful little game.
Amazingly attractive simple 3D, good sound design, really relaxing.
The puzzle are quite hard toward the end (or rather I'm not very good at them) but still one of my favourite submission.
Congratulations!
This is amazingly beautiful and polished. Love the soft illumination and muted palette, really fits both themes well. Great subtlety in the tile "flip", music and sound effects. I want this as an app right now. :)
Mmmmmm.
This is a highly polished take on a game concept I've probably seen replicated 100 times. I'm pretty sure there are people out there who can solve these things as fast as those other people who can solve rubik cubes.
So, sorry, low on innovation but MASSIVE polish, which isn't really the point of LD, imho!
Well done still, it's REALLY beautiful. Credit where it's due.
Simply lovely and very relaxing to play. Love the graphics and the music. This is a very polished and solid entry. Very nice!
Wow! this game is amazing! great art, sound, and the gameplay is simple but effective, and deep!
Extremely polished game, albeit generic gameplay. Really relaxing soundtrack, and a nice game overall - keep up the good work!
WIN link gives a error404
i like games using those exagonal squares
maybe im not the type of player for that cause i find this difficult lol (i dont solve rubiksCubs neither ^^)
Really nice graphics.
I happened to have made the same game (without such fancy graphics ;D) some time ago, so I could use my solver for the later levels. They were quite difficult without.
Real nice! Relaxing!
Hiccups a bit in the browser - I think it's totally worth optimizing.
This is so good that does not even look like a jam game! Loved everything about it! Even the font ;) Well done Lauren Thompson!
Simple and cool concept, nice graphics, cool sound that sets the mood. Good job!
Great. Love the graphics and the music. This is a very polished and solid entry. Well done ++
Absolutely beautiful and clever. What a combination, full marks for this <3
Really neat and polished entry! The gameplay feels great, I really loved the sound design
Beautiful games congratulations on getting so many levels created in such a short time. Would have loved to be able to see which levels I had completed
Nice game: relaxing, challenging once the board gets big enough, and with really pretty graphics. Good job!
Really neat puzzle design, and it was very polished! This feels like a game that should have taken a lot longer to make =P Great job!
Amazing and brilliant artwork and polishing. I found it really hard after some levels, so I just had to give up. But it is a fantastic entry! :)
My Fav so far! So smooth and polished handling, nice mechanics and awesome graphics. really something wich stands out by a lot out of all the entrys
I usually don't enjoy these types of puzzles, but this one actually kept my interest for a very long time. Something about was very 'welcoming' so to speak. I felt very relaxed while playing, a perfect casual game that I can see myself playing for long periods of time on mobile!
graphics were fantastic by the way, excellent submission, great job! :)
Wow great I feel like playing old point&click puzzle minigame but better looking, and btw I love this graphics!:)
This game is absolutely beautiful. I could stare at the beautiful art for a long time. As for the game itself, I found it hard, but I'm bad at puzzles like these. Awesome game!
"The Unity web player does not work on your system." Screenshots look nice, will find a windows machine to play it.
Would you please fix the link for Win download? I get "Page not found". I don't like installing other browsers to run Unity web player, so please, would you fix the link? I am very intrigued by the game (mine being similar in graphic style).
As many have said your overall presentation is amazing and quite impressive for a jam. On the other hand, the puzzles themselves were mostly trivial, a direct result of this being a well-known puzzle. Having said that, I'm sure plenty of people would enjoy relaxing with a mobile version of this.
Really nice entry! Solid game and mechanic! Really feels like it could be a full proper puzzle game for both mobile and PC if it had a bit more.. such as seperate time/moves unlocking of levels.. check out the game "Cogs"
Very elegant game with nice polished graphics and sounds. I thought it was too easy at first, but then I hit some of the later levels.
Great game! It's amazing to see what you could do in three days.
If you add more levels and actions-counter you can go on app-store or g-play.
Looks awesome!
gameplay is not original, but the execution is so excellent!...solid entry!
The puzzle was quite hard, but seriously so well made that it didn't matter. I just kept swapping around and enjoying the whole thing a lot. It would be super crazy cool if the tiles kept track of how often they had been turned and so if someone like me isn't doing that well the game would present novel variations on the graphics of the tiles. If the music also reflected the relationship between the two tile types... As for the levels, since I was playing so badly, all three first levels became equally hard and the next one too difficult. I would suggest increasing difficulty more slowly and starting with simpler levels. Like starting with a hex tile that only has every other neighbor possible (4 tiles in total). Great game though. Really stunning. I guess you've though about it, but in case you haven't... controls would work very will on pad/mobile.
Beautiful game with calming audio and a great message. It took me a few minutes to get through all the levels. I wish you had included a fullscreen mode.
High scores all round for this one, very nice indeed! What a beautiful clean graphical style. Tricky puzzles later on as well.
Great graphics, even if the idea is a little on the simple side.
I can't help be disappointed you only went the nature route. Growth could easily refer to industrial growth too, which could provide an interesting alternate approach.
Very cool game. The art is amazing and the puzzles are well done.
Very solid entry. Love the music and the mood. I think it has potential to be a popular mobile game. You should try it!
Added MAC and LINUX versions, if you experience any problem, please let me know!
Nice little puzzle, the graphics add a nice touch by making it less abstract.
Amasing style and nice colors! :D The music was also very suitable :D So all in all 5/5 in Overall!
Fantastic! I loved the aesthetic and presentation. Superb work on the models.
Great game. Loved the meditative gameplay. One of the few entries where i'm not found any flaws. Very polished and well balanced game.
Very lovely and relaxing to play. The puzzles get a bit difficult but very nice game overall, nothing much to criticize, well done!
Visually this game is awesome! Game mechanic isn't new, game idea come from "Green Piece", but I love this idea =) Difficlty curve is strange, so few levels simplier than prevously cleared. Maybe this because of game mechanic and various human logic mechanism...
Clever puzzles that can be solved in just a few steps, so if you're overthinking it and presses a bunch of tiles, that means you are doing it wrong. PS: I'm doing it wrong :( this game gets really hard!
Incredibly well polished take on an old puzzle game. Looks and plays great. Would be nice to see a target number of moves to know just how bad I'm being on some of the levels!
Very good design and graphics, the game is very polish! This is a good little puzzle game, I liked it! good job!
Nicely done. I was afraid it was similar to my entry. But it's only graphical style. Although I lack animations :)
Keep up the good work.
Nice smooth feel to the game & graphics. The puzzling itself seemed a bit too simple, but also a bit too complex at times - when you don't 'get' it, there are not many hints/ways to progress.
Nice looking game. Calm music helped when I'd otherwise get aggravated at returning to an earlier configuration.
Very enticing to look at but not a game I've ever really enjoyed playing, and I don't really see how it fits into either theme.
Nice graphics and mood! The tiles design is really cool, and the game overall looks very polished.
Good job!
super nice and calming puzzle game, really like the simple art too, very polished
One of my favorites for this edition of Ludum Dare. I love the puzzles, the idea is very simple but it is done so well, everything is awesomely polished, the minimalistic visuals are greatly done. Congratulations.
Impressive graphics and polish! I like the wires, tubes and roots shooting out of the tiles. Nice music, soothing mood.
Very challenging game at the later levels. Became difficult to come up with a strategy, but still stayed fun. Wonderful graphics, too!
Standard puzzle, polished, with amazing graphics and well selected music. Doesn't really fit the theme, though.
Beautiful game. I mostly felt like I was guessing until I got it right, but it was still enjoyable
I rather like the lack of "pressure" like #moves or a time limit etc, because if you don't have the pattern down to a science but just know the basics you can afford to mis-step and then fix it the 3rd time around or whatever.
So maybe it's been done, but it's all where you look, and since my main focus is on LD, this is the first exact copy of this I've seen!
And like the other people were saying, sometimes it's nice to have a nice presentation on top of a simple puzzle, because in other contexts you can possibly "separate and sell" the graphics engine to be put on top of other games in the same class.
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