So there is no reason you shouldn't eat a cake? Doesn't sound dynamic to me, introducing shatter crates! They break under any load too strong, whether you like it or not!
On a more serious note, I do recommend you try to design puzzle elements that have both advantages and disadvantages. If an aspect of a puzzle only has advantages, the player will take that path. What you wind up with here is essentially puzzles glued together because the player will beeline for the cakes in whatever order is most fit. Not that that can't be a good puzzle if you obfuscate the order, but having more options for you, the designer, to control the player will help create more diverse puzzle opportunities.
I really like a game called I Wanna Lockpick, a game about opening doors with keys. In the second world the game introduces a door that requires exactly zero keys of a color to open. Before this, there were interesting ordering puzzles, but the zero door introduced a new concept to juggle: divisibility and remainders.
An hour of thinking of the concept, several hours for coding, an hour designing a layout, another hour trying to see if its impossible, realizing it isn't, and several more hours of tweaking it until I find something that's just barely possible...
I was looking for bad Itch.io games but this was actually good 👍 feel like the art style is kinda illegible and hard to understand sometimes but great concept and I like the sound effects.
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So there is no reason you shouldn't eat a cake? Doesn't sound dynamic to me, introducing shatter crates! They break under any load too strong, whether you like it or not!
On a more serious note, I do recommend you try to design puzzle elements that have both advantages and disadvantages. If an aspect of a puzzle only has advantages, the player will take that path. What you wind up with here is essentially puzzles glued together because the player will beeline for the cakes in whatever order is most fit. Not that that can't be a good puzzle if you obfuscate the order, but having more options for you, the designer, to control the player will help create more diverse puzzle opportunities.
I really like a game called I Wanna Lockpick, a game about opening doors with keys. In the second world the game introduces a door that requires exactly zero keys of a color to open. Before this, there were interesting ordering puzzles, but the zero door introduced a new concept to juggle: divisibility and remainders.
fun
yea ngl but its very short, so any level ideas?
I have no idea how people come up with levels for these games
An hour of thinking of the concept, several hours for coding, an hour designing a layout, another hour trying to see if its impossible, realizing it isn't, and several more hours of tweaking it until I find something that's just barely possible...
I was looking for bad Itch.io games but this was actually good 👍 feel like the art style is kinda illegible and hard to understand sometimes but great concept and I like the sound effects.
thx bro, some times the cover of the book does not say its contents! 🤗