Tethernum² by Eigen

made by Eigen for LD31 (COMPO)

Your objective is to achieve a single color for the whole board.

By clicking on a hex you cycle its color along with all of its neighbours. By observing the connections and overlaps you can work out the order in which to click to solve the board.

Or you know, just randomly click around and hope for the best ;)

This is a spiritual successor to my last LD entry but with updated gameplay and visuals. My goal was to further simplify the simple concept that I developed last time round. I hope you enjoy it!

Be warned - it's a toughie!

Web	http://eigen.pri.ee/tethernum2
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=26179

Ratings

Coolness	30%	1987
Overall	3.57	217

Audio	2.20	809
Fun	3.13	505
Graphics	3.35	391
Humor	1.73	905
Innovation	3.70	186
Mood	2.81	674
Theme	3.09	1026

Feedback

furriKira

08. Dec 2014 · 09:45 UTC

This reminds me one of the old games I played that achieves the same thing. It's simple, it's good. I like it!

johnbrynte

08. Dec 2014 · 11:09 UTC

Very sleek looking game! I had a hard time understanding the mechanics but I think just a few tweaks or simpler starter levels would have helped with that.

mrexcessive

10. Dec 2014 · 19:20 UTC

Hi there. Liked the puzzle idea. It might be nice to show the triplets, or have that as an option, to remove the memory part from the puzzle, but maybe that's just me. Enjoyed it. Bookmarked for a proper go later.

Recon

11. Dec 2014 · 13:14 UTC

Very nice!

InHelli

11. Dec 2014 · 13:19 UTC

time killer ))
Good job!

klianc09

11. Dec 2014 · 13:25 UTC

Very clever puzzle game. It's so simple, yet so difficult. This could make a great mobile game, but it would need some more easier levels, or some better visual indication which triplets belong together.
Also the hitboxes of the buttons are not properly working in Chrome, played fine in Firefox though.

Sharky

11. Dec 2014 · 13:58 UTC

Very hard, and a bit confusing to why it only changes 2 beside it rather then all and why it choices those specific 2

🎤 Eigen

11. Dec 2014 · 19:25 UTC

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.

I've made slight changes to the rules and now all the neighbouring hexes are cycled ramping the difficulty even higher. If I get a chance I'll try to add more simpler levels.

pjimmy

13. Dec 2014 · 23:35 UTC

interesting, simple but challenging, well done

dunin

17. Dec 2014 · 18:30 UTC

nice packaged game. And clever.

markusfisch

19. Dec 2014 · 14:52 UTC

Quite a tough game indeed! But also very interesting and very well done!

JayCee23

28. Dec 2014 · 20:54 UTC

Nope I can't play this or I will have to punch someone in the face. Too much for me.

Haha, great game.