Boxed by starpixie

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made by starpixie for LD23 (COMPO)
Puzzle platformer based in two boxes, and each box contains the other box. You must use the shrines located around to alter the other box, and eventually place both boxes on the correct shrine to unite them into a full-spectrum universe!

Controls are:

WASD to move.
Ctrl to pick up.
Space to switch universes (must be near a box).

Ratings

Coolness 20% 1007
Overall 3.13 341
Fun 2.75 460
Graphics 3.25 265
Innovation 4.25 18
Mood 2.42 599
Theme 3.67 114

Feedback

JaJ
23. Apr 2012 · 18:27 UTC
Awesome concept! Very innovative and I love the way you used the theme. I really wanted to play around and figure it out, but in the end the game proved to be too buggy for my patience. Especially when you try to throw a box against a pedistal odd things might happen and I kept getting stuck.
arhpositive
23. Apr 2012 · 18:38 UTC
nice graphics. wandered around a little but couldn't do much. the theme is successfully integrated into the game and the idea is cool, but the lack of sound affects the general impression.
caranha
27. Apr 2012 · 15:45 UTC
This is a very cool, if hard, puzzle game! I liked how changing one box would affect the other one, and changing between worlds.

One thing that I would change, is that the other would should "freeze", so that we don't have the current world changing because the other world was changed -- this made the game a bit confusing.

Great job, anyway!
evilseanbot
28. Apr 2012 · 03:58 UTC
I really like the concept!

The controls a little awkward because throwing boxes left and right is very different.

Also, its possible to throw the box to the side of a dish-plate-thing, making you lose your process cause you can't scoop it out

Maybe it would've been better if placed boxes at your feet/picked them up from above instead of tossing them?
PIXEL^3
28. Apr 2012 · 18:10 UTC
The player looks like a girl scout :p
anyways, cool game. the gameplay was fairly original.
question is,
where in the world did you get the idea for this .-.
Hazard
03. May 2012 · 17:33 UTC
The concept is brilliant and irritating at the same time. It's frustrating to get stuck so easily, though.
Cambrian_Man
05. May 2012 · 18:17 UTC
I really like the concept and I feel like it could be fleshed out. Bugs did make the game somewhat difficult to actually play, and having things on one universe immediately affect the other one sometimes meant stuff seemed to happen almost randomly. I didn't realize at first why things might flip out. If it were clearer what was happening, it might've been more fun, but I still enjoyed the game.
Make A Game
05. May 2012 · 19:18 UTC
Good use of theme and great concept!
robcozzens
05. May 2012 · 20:50 UTC
I would play it, but I'm on an iMac.
Datamosh
06. May 2012 · 14:18 UTC
Fun little game and nice graphics! Good work, although kind of "buggie" sometimes!
machinas
12. May 2012 · 23:19 UTC
awesome concept, but just ran into bugs that I couldn't get past. boxes kept getting stuck, i got shot out of walls. would be nice if you could pick up a box while you're standing on it.
Knighty
13. May 2012 · 09:57 UTC
I like the idea, although it is very confusing. Especially when the worlds start flipping upside-down or rotating it becomes very difficult to keep track of where you're going.
AirRider3
13. May 2012 · 20:24 UTC
Oh, they said it's original, but I can't try it! Maybe a web version next time? :)