Shapeshifter by mikekreein
Shapeshifter
My game in Love2D for Ludum Dare 35
A puzzle game that takes the theme Shapeshift very literally.
The goal is to clear the shape tokens from the board by forming the shapes inside the tokens with other tokens. Shift the tokens left, right, up or down to get them into the correct position, then add a new row until you can't shift any more.
* Hover over a row/column with the mouse pointer
* Left or Right mouse buttons shifts current row left or right
* Mouse Wheel Up or Down shifts current column up or down
* Middle mouse button adds an additional row and clears any matches
If no proper mouse is present, use your pointer device to hover over a token and WASD to shift and SHIFT/SPACE to add an additional row
The more shapes you clear, the more varied the shapes get!
Tools Used:
Love2D for the engine
bfxr for the SFX
My game in Love2D for Ludum Dare 35
A puzzle game that takes the theme Shapeshift very literally.
The goal is to clear the shape tokens from the board by forming the shapes inside the tokens with other tokens. Shift the tokens left, right, up or down to get them into the correct position, then add a new row until you can't shift any more.
* Hover over a row/column with the mouse pointer
* Left or Right mouse buttons shifts current row left or right
* Mouse Wheel Up or Down shifts current column up or down
* Middle mouse button adds an additional row and clears any matches
If no proper mouse is present, use your pointer device to hover over a token and WASD to shift and SHIFT/SPACE to add an additional row
The more shapes you clear, the more varied the shapes get!
Tools Used:
Love2D for the engine
bfxr for the SFX
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall | 3.48 | 239 |
| Fun | 3.20 | 423 |
| Innovation | 3.82 | 102 |
| Theme | 3.62 | 303 |
Only issue was the fact that you can "shift" entire lines/rows even if shapes should block them since all shapes "pack up" on the corners.
Makes the game very trivial (and repetitive without much thought) since you can just pack everything up on the sides and clean as you go. Think preventing shifting of lines/rows if a shape on that line/row is touching the side of the screen would add a lot of brainstorming needed.
Other than that, very cool and clean :)
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The rules were a little hard to understand, but I guess that is the point since we need to figure out what is the best thing to do.
Overall, great, fun puzzle game! :) Great work!