Twisted Pair by pfeyffer
A simple puzzle game where you connect two wires at the same time by placing tiles on a board.
It works on mobile devices as well as any browser.
- The project has been written in vanilla JavaScript with Visual Studio Code.
- All graphics have been created in InkScape, photos edited with Affinity Photo.
- The background music has been composed in strudel.cc.
- The sounds have been recorded in Audacity. Yes, that was me, hissing at a microphone at 3 am.
Have fun connecting wires and sending signals!
| Link | https://bluetear.de/twistedpair/ |
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| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/twisted-pair |
Ratings
| Overall | 11th | 4.196⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 19th | 4.063⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 103th | 3.565⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 52th | 4.188⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 31th | 4.217⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 26th | 4.043⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 95th | 2.917⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 43th | 3.932⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 16🗳️ | 23🗨️ |
Personally I'm very happy to see a project in vanilla JavaScript as it means there is much I can learn from the source code. Thanks for sharing this neat entry!

So yeah, very satisfying puzzle game to play. The feeling you get when you finally find the piece that connects perfectly is just awesome. The effects are satisfying as well, the shortcut bzzz when you rotated something in a way that doesn't work is a nice signifier to keep going. Despite the wires going all over the place, the connections were always easy to follow thanks to the highlight, this is a very polished game, I thought it looks great. Sound is the quintessential puzzling banner, plus of course the aforementioned sound effects, I only now see that those were 3am sound effects with the occasional hissing, sound design is great as well here. Very cool game, very well done!
a lot of great sound and visual feedback. I really like that the wires highlight the path!
Had a lot of fun during this one!
I really like that I didn't need any instruction to know what to do with this game

Left you an excellent rating :smile: best one so far for me
It's clever how it forces you to split the wires up, you really can't run them parallel for long, if at all.
I liked the spacey music and the audio was quite fitting.
A great way to escalate the challenge further could be colour coding the electrical signal as well (if you are interested in taking this idea further)
The music is really lovely, and I like the game design. It reminded me of one computer game from my childhood that I almost forgot. It was called Vetka in Russian, which means Branch. It was also a puzzle game about connecting - just not wires, but branches, so they would flower. I loved playing Vetka and spent a lot of time on it! Thank you for that hit of nostalgia :D
A good version of this type of game.
Edit: Yes, that was me, hissing at a microphone at 3 am. HAHA brilliant
Labeling the levels as A, B, C, or with numbers, or otherwise letting the player know the game looped might be good to set player expectations might be good. I had similar feedback 2 jams ago so just passing that along.
The mood of the bulletin board and graph paper textures was nice too.

It's fun to tinker around without necessarily having a plan too, which is helped by the fact that a short circuit doesn't completely reset you, but just gives you some nice visual and sound effects.
Music was good and fit well into the relaxed mood. The wire graphics were nice and intuitive, and the mechanic that figures out which ones to light up is cool.
I like the corkboard and graph paper adding to the tactile feel!
Don't really have any nitpicks or critique, it was just nice, and I would've kept playing if there was more!