Doppel Effect by Wendel Scardua

Yet another jam game for the NES/Famicom, this time a Sokoban-like puzzle.

Move crystals and altars around. Whenever the number of crystals conected to an altar changes, summoning circles will activate, creating doppelgangers who mimic your every move. Each type of circle requires an specific number of crystals.
You can press the "B" button (or whatever it's bound to on your keyboard, probably the "Z" key) to undo movements. Or press "Start" ("Enter" ?) to quit to level selection.
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Derivative rules: - when a new circle would be activated, the previous doppelgangers will disappear (even if carrying keys) - this happens even if the circle was already spent by a previous activation
The last levels introduce the pressure plate. If you place crystals/altars on all of them, any closed doors will open:

Notes
- 2024.04.15 22:34 GMT-3 - This version seems to be bugged, levels get corrupted after a while, trying to fix it right now
- 2024.04.15 23:07 GMT-3 - Fixed the bug
- 2024.04.16 11:53 GMT-3 - Forgot to write here: someone found a bug when undoing the de-spawning of multiple doppelgangers :( (don't know if it counts as a game-breaking bug for me to fix it during jam)
| Link | https://wendelscardua.itch.io/doppel-effect |
| Link | https://wendelscardua.itch.io/doppel-effect |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/doppel-effect |
Ratings
| Overall | 199th | 3.952⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 147th | 3.976⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 183th | 3.857⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 248th | 4.083⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 507th | 3.821⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 665th | 3.475⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 58🗳️ | 59🗨️ |
Once i spawned in the second guy, i got kinda excited since this is very similar to the mechanics in our entry ^^
Puzzles are thoughtful and quite pleasent to solve! Great sokoban twist :D
Jokes aside, this is a very nice puzzle and oh boy isn't it quite a challenging one! :sweat_smile:
If I had more patience, I would probrably have even more fun, thinking of the best possible solutions for every game. I was a bit to lazy to focus myself for long :D
Thank you, it was very interesting!
https://youtu.be/eQrmE5W6CWU
And I'm the host for the ludum dare score chasers tournament this Ludum Dare. Wanted to ask if youre fine if I put some gameplay of the game in an intermission video. Last year for reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_eIvjBmIQ
If you want to watch my playthrough again for the feedback I gave, you can find it here:
https://youtu.be/VrinXzvnhho
I'm actually surprised I didn't have more trouble with this, given my ineptitude at sokoban-type games. :sweat_smile: Nice work!
Como sempre, um jogo que desafia os miolos! Você está cada vez melhor!
Quando eu crescer eu quero fazer jogos pra NES como você!
Parabéns por mais um jogo!
All in all, I had fun. Good job!
