Clod's Quest by Sidnoea

You're a clod.
No, literally, you're a lump of earth.
A ball of mud. Sentient mud.
How? Probably through magic... Like a golem?
Anyway, that's not important.
What is important is that you're on a quest-
a transformative journey- to become shinier.
You must collect every fragment of the
P H I L O S O P H E R ' S S T O N E
to make your muddy dreams come true.
Will you be able to navigate the rooms
while managing your ever fluctuating size
and avoid danger?
| HTML5 (web) | https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=31670 |
| Source code | https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=31670 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/clods-quest |
Ratings
| Overall | 119th | 3.909⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 178th | 3.697⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 49th | 4⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 58th | 4.212⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 447th | 3.652⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 236th | 3.5⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 234th | 3.355⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 352th | 3.391⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 30🗳️ | 31🗨️ |
Slightly better graphics and menus and this could be a very enjoyable puzzle game. Main nitpick: I believe you could improve the collisions (even if the clod grows as a circle, its collision appears to grow as a square, so it collects water diagonally and that’s a bit confusing). Of course that would maybe require to change all the levels, so you may not want that…
As some people mentioned, it'll be nice to be able to tell visually when you're too small to touch the water or too big to enter the door.
Anyways, it was fun, good job!
My main gripe - first level was too hard and almost steered me off the game. Consecutive levels were in my opinion better balanced. In any case really cool game!!!
here is a link to your spot on the stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/298451826?t=02h33m00s