Piggle Puzzle by fractalsunrise
Help the piggles get to the goal, but watch out: the more piggles you have, the more likely they are to get piled up!
Click to place food. When a piggle sees food, it will start walking. When it gets to the food, the piggle will stop to eat it and make another piggle. The first piggle will keep going until it hits a wall. Plan your moves to get the piggles into the goal squares on the right.
You can skip the intro screens by pressing Escape.
Update: The piggles apologize for not properly listening to mice. They were even prone to ignore mice. While the piggles are still insatiable in their hunt for food, they now have enough civility to communicate with mice properly. You can now help the piggles to the goal even if you resize the game window! Mouse bug: fixed.
Update: It was inevitable. In their endless quest for food, the piggles have stumbled into the wide world of the Internet. There they continue to look for food to their little piggle hearts' content. The web build is now working.
Ratings
| Overall | 505th | 3.513⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 342th | 3.564⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 223th | 3.628⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 619th | 3.385⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 726th | 3.218⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 401th | 3.289⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 392th | 3.295⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 633th | 3.203⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 42🗳️ | 42🗨️ |
I played a fair bit and once I got an understanding of the mechanics I had quite a bit of fun trying to avoid the piggy piles and to wrangle those things into the goal.
The music was nice, and the presentation was great as well.
My only gripes are that I kept accidentally placing the food before the level loaded by impatiently clicking my mouse. My fault, yeah, but could be prevented by not letting food be placed before the splash screen is gone.
Second, it took me a bit to learn that I had to press SPACE to make the game go. Also probably my fault for missing some instructions.
Either way, my gripes are more personal problems, and your game was great but I like to give any constructive feedback that I can!
Hi-5 for a great entry!
Update: Great; I'm glad it worked. Thanks for the feedback!
I personally would've liked more if the level transition happened by itself, but it's a great game. I'm just picking on it for a sake of being "constructive". Great job!
Really enjoyed it overall. Have a great LD!
@jeffrey-hwang: We'd have loved to do automatic level transitions, but we didn't have time. Will definitely bear that in mind if we do a post-LD version.
@abilean: The theme connection is "The more piggles in the pen, the worse it is trying to get them to the goal". Some of the levels (*cough* level 9 *cough*) fit the theme better, but it's true that the early levels are less that way. We didn't want to make it too hard while the player is still learning the ins and outs of the mechanics.
I like puzzle games that give me time to think, so the fact that I can decide when to do the next step is great!
And those pigs are just sooo cute <3
In the start, I also had the problem that I already placed food by accident and it seemed like the mouse was not working, but apparently I already placed 2 out of 2 food before the level loaded (Chrome on Windows). Luckily I read @burgee 's comment, which also explained why the pre-placed food was different each time. ;)
I was stuck in level 3 for a while, since I thought that I had to collect all the piggles, so I had to avoid every piggle pile. ;)
I liked the music, although the loop was a bit short, so after a while I enjoyed the Mute button, and then later I turned the music again on for a few loops. :)
I would probably have liked a graphical representation of the remaining resources, and an auto-advance to the next level (or a more visible form of feedback when you completed a level).