Reviews for I Puzzle Good

[Keslen]

Well that was really enjoyable - it was a near ideal contribution to the puzzle platformer genre.

I loved how each puzzle was contained on a single screen so you never had to worry about stuff you couldn't see yet having an effect on anything. I also loved the increasingly growing number of features you had at your disposal to get through them - very nice pacing and difficulty curving.

There are only two things wrong with this game, in my opinion, and one of them is just a minor nitpick: I'd've rather have been able to jump with the up arrow and use space to pick up/drop the boxes. As for the other thing: that guy seemed to take way too long to stop, especially when going at full speed - a much higher coefficient of friction would have made the game handle a *lot* better.

There was also one aesthetic note I wanted to offer regarding the 3-high pits present in a lot of levels that indicate you've failed the level if you fall into them. One of them had a series of platforms on its side that allowed you to jump back up to the start of the level while all the others forced a hard reset of the level despite having room for a similar feature. If they all had that feature (or even if they all didn't), you'd probably see a slight uptick in the overall opinion people have.

Niborious7 responds:

Thank You!

I changed the physics. You now slide to a stop much faster. And you can turn around faster. Pressing in the opposite direction actually makes you slow down faster now, before it wouldn't change you acceleration.

Some of the levels require a reset because the level would change when you hit a switch on the way down. The first of these levels actually makes it much harder if you don't reset. Resetting is usually faster than climbing back up anyway. I think aesthetically you are probably right, so, for consistency sake, I made all of those levels force a reset.

I think I will work on adding a controls options menu.

[ionrayner]

So much levels, I like it, but the medal is not working.

[xXIokoXx]

A simple puzzler. I do enjoy games like this, the only thing I would change is the background.

Niborious7 responds:

Yeah, its actually just one of the floor tiles blown up and anti-aliased, so you're probably right.

[kakapants]

great game, great problem. i accidently hit the "F" key instead of the "R". That led to my character constantly trying to run to the right and i had to restart the game.That was bad news for me when i realized the game doesn't save your progress. I didn't go back again to try to replicate the bug because i was pissed off. i was at lvl 36 i think. awesome fun though, just straighten out the kink with safari or add an autosave feature. good luck and thanks for the game

Niborious7 responds:

Edit: There is now auto-saving - A continue button will show up if you have save data. Unfortunately, there was no auto-saving when you were playing, so you will still have to get back there

I just fixed the issue with getting stuck running in a direction.
It would happen when you release a key as it is transitioning in or out of full screen. You could have fixed this in game just by pressing and releasing right again, but if you were using arrow keys to move and accidentally hit D when hitting F, then you would have to press and release D again which is not intuitive for the player.
I fixed this by clearing all keyboard inputs during fullscreen transitions.

I will work on implementing saving and level selection. I didn't think it was a big deal before because I thought that once you got past a level it shouldn't be that hard to get back there from the beginning. But, my experiences with the game are very different as the creator since I had frequently playtested from the beginning to the end and can beat the whole game in under five minutes :P

[z64ry]

I love the game so far. I havent beaten it yet as its finals week. I sat behind you a few times in Anthro and saw you working on this game(sorry to be a creep), but yea. Since I saw you playing, and watching you make the game, i wanted to play it myself, so i googled it and found it lol. Anyways, good job,i like it. i think its great. if you see me on campus, feel free to say whats up, ill try doing the same. good luck on mondays final. Zot Zot fam.

Niborious7 responds:

Lol this is great. I was pretty surprised that this is the first thing that comes up for me when I googled the title. You're going to have to say hi to me first though because I don't know who you are xD