Tactical Ghosts: The Impification

Such an easy to understand but hard to master movement system! Also the art is fabulous I find it all really cute and holesome :) fantastic job!

The art is very good and the game is quite intuitive and fun!
I don't quite understand the storyline, but it doesn't really matter, the game is just a BLAST!

Nicely Done!

The graphics look really nice and the animations are really cool. However, I found a bit difficult to start and see what is the aim, but then it got really fun :D

Simple but effective, great work! :)

Looking great and it´s fun to play. Well done.

Very simple, fun game!

Fits the theme really well, being always reminded of the time running out kept me on the edge. Good job!

@Azhures You're right. We didn't have time to implement any proper tutorial or explanation of how the game works. That's why you start with simple tasks and then progress to more complicated :)

Uh, very cool! Nice idea, very chessy. Your pixel art is great here, the music is very upbeat. Seeing that there are characters which haven't been unlocked yet is a great motivation.

Awesome design that runs very smoothly. Thumbs up!

I really like how you introduced a nice rythme with this timer ! Simple and fun experience !

Fast and fun! It is very playable and smooth which I really like, also the graphics are nice. There are too many repeats of the same pattern though. It gives nice and easy boost to your time, but becomes irritating when you expect the same easy 'two-click to win' pattern too often just then to be given out of knowhere 'beat 4 enemies on 45 degree angle' pattern during the remaining time xD I would suggest more natural progression of difficulty and tweaking the game difficulty that way to be more rewarding. Now the difficulty level is jumping all over the place, which is sometimes irritating. The game is still very fun though, dont get me wrong. I had much fun playing it :)

Wow! It's such a good game! I was really invested in this one. Good job!

Cutting the game to the minimum scope was a definitely good idea - the game is simple, error-free, and finished. The only drawback is a missing tutorial.

@janku You're 100% right. There is a simple progression where you unlock new units in a certain amount of rounds to get to know them better, but they could be organized a lot better. Thanks for your critique :). If we'll ever plan to remake this game after the jam, we will fix this!

Cool and addicting game! I really enjoyed it! I think this would be a great mobile game :)

I like the idea of frantic chess puzzle solving. I guess the problem with that is that the puzzles need to be pretty easy. It would be cool if the enemies could attack back, would add to the difficulty.

Woah, I didn't expect the game to be so much fun. It got me hooked. Great job, really polished and feels really complete. It would be amazing mobile game! :)

Great game Congratz!

Some true professionalism shining through in the art here. Color palette, tileset & characters are incredibly well designed & put together.

Additional praise to the design choice of not having to wait for an animation to end before the next move is allowed. It provides some very smooth-yet-snappy movement.

I didn't get the timer though, it seemed pretty random? I swear i lost sometimes with timer left in the 300s.

One of my top picks so far, well done!

@snowycocoon I have been playing for quite some time, and it gets really nice! It really keeps you going and retrying to unlock more ghosts :) Really really nice game!

Great entry! Loved the mechanics - the game feels super satisfying to play, and everything plays so intuitively you don't need any direction at all to grasp the idea and start having fun.

It's nice visually but the sound/music is a little bit irritating. Gameplay is simple and works well, although it seems there are a lot of repetitions in the early levels?

@failuer That sounds like a strange bug that we didn't catch. The timer is going faster and faster every round. so 100 units of time in the first round are not equal to the 100 units of time in the 10th round.

cool art, and cool arcade funny gameplay !

Incredible game! Such a nice and compelling mechanic. I managed to unlock half of the content, my brain got exhausted from working that fast, but I enjoyed it! Great job!


Fav feature is the counter that just seems to spit out numbers at random, legit made me laugh. Decent idle game.

Great graphics and fun, but it was a bit confusing to only have coloured squares and no enemies at first, as your screenshots doesn't show this. I thought the game was broken for me at first.

Otherwise, great game, good job!

Haha so cool, though my wrist couldn't even keep up with the speed at 50% of the content! How did you do the rest?!? So fast!

Really cool concept and a simple yet effective main mechanic. Great job

This game is the perfect sort of game I like to see come out of jams. A simple concept, well executed, and polished into a great little package.

It took me a minute to figure out what the heck I was doing, but then I happily played until I unlocked everything. It has a warioware sort of feel to it. The art and sound mix well, though I think there's room for a little more immersive sound while playing. Great entry here!

At the beginning, I thought this game is too easy. But I'm wrong, after unlock all of the 5 characters, it starts to become a brain training game. Very good experience!

The art work is perfect enough to show on ios store or somewhere~its a pity that compo game cant get a graphic score. the mechanic is great too, i would like to kill a lot of time on it.

Great game with simple yet interesting concept! Levels are a bit repeated but maybe that's because I didn't get o far. Great job!

@okamit @bitdecay You're right. A tutorial with a short explanation of the game would be useful for a new player.

@daniilprasolov There are like 30 levels at the moment. You unlock more of them with the game progression :)

Every millisecond is a challenge, It looks like the level is random, so it makes the brain need more time to solve the puzzle. Very interesting idea to make this game even more fun, nice work!

Like the fast but also simple mecahnic of this game! The knight kind of caught me off guard at first, but was of course the most interesting one. I just felt that some levels where repeated a bit too often, so I think there should either be more or new ones should be unlocked a bit faster

Fun and addictive, I like your game! The gameplay, graphics and music/sound just fit together so nicely! Well done! It gets really chaotic at the end, love it! ;D

Simple and intuitive! It almost felt hypnotizing to sit and click away at the cute lil things! Good job <3

Pretty cool concept overall. The chess rules mixed with the frantic timed gameplay made for a unique and fun experience. I managed to get a score of 4100 and unlocked all the content. I wonder if it would've been cooler to have fewer repeated levels until you unlock all content and then having a sort of endless highscore mode. Also in my first run I didn't get what to do because I simply didn't notice the yellow square at all. I think if it had been animated, that wouldn't have been an issue for me.

So much fun! Great art and music too! Best version of chess ever!!

Great entry! I really loved the cuts to the timer between the levels, it really highlights the urgency in the game.

!> Also I took until the pawn promotion to release it was about chess rules :D

This game was amazing, played until the very end! At first I thought it was a bit too simple but them each character unlocked changed up the movement, awesome! Really like the art style and sound as well!

This was such a pleasant little game. It made me feel smart!
I also liked the graphics a lot and would love to see it released for mobile in the future. :)

Simple and addictive! Played to the end and I want more.
I really like how the game teaches itself by starting simple then ramping up the difficulty gradually.

A nice fun and quick game! I liked how you discover things as you go along!

Amazing game! I love the cute graphics! The gameplay is easy to understand and still really interesting. Good job!

Thenks you guys for such a nice feedback :D

@oadt @yaen Definityly there will be more levels in the future. Mayby even generic generated?

@yaen Animated tile- great idea! We will add that for sure

@bqq that's our secreat plan. Teach people basic rules of chess without their knowlage

@ocwal Dude, you take part in Ludum Dare and your game is great- you must be smart. Mobile- thats our plan

@nsadie Thx! Your chess game is even beter

Chess+quick reaction game, that's surely rare mix. I love the challenge of moving rook, bishop, queen and pawn to solve each puzzle.
My only gripe is some levels are repeated too often and need to be varied.

Hi! I really like how you borrow from Chess mechanic! It would have more depth if it is deliberate turn based puzzle than reaction time, but it seems like you prefer delivering a lighter experience, with that you are doing well!
Minor issue: The yellow outline for the end isn't so easy to spot at first.

The theme is respected, however the levels are not created randomly, which creates redundancy
good game

Very polished game, good fit to the theme, good visuals and audio. Great submission overall.

Verrrry good entry, like chess but different and I love that, great entry with this one!

phenomenal! i'm so impressed: really creative take on chess, fun pixel-art and it's somuch fun to fight against the timer!!

I used to play lots of chess, lots. Thank you for your amazing game, made me remember the good old times!

Cool idea. And well-polished too. A bit too repetitive.

Great work! It is such a well thought game!

Great work! It is such a well thought game!

Great work! It is such a well thought game!

Great job on the game. It was very satisfying to play and I liked the fast pace for each of the levels. I was also a fan of the slowly unlocking more levels which kept the game interesting. It flowed quite well and make for an enjoyable experience. It would be helpful if it was a bit more obvious which character was yours at a glance. It was easy to tell for the "rook" since it contrasted a lot but some of the other ones blended in a bit more with the enemies and had me pause to find which one was mine. Same goes for the goal tile, it was a bit difficult to tell which was the goal and which was the movement selection at a glance. Overall though well done.

nice tile-based game. at first, i didn't understand what was going on, but then i saw the enemies. i like how the timer slowly goes down to the point where you can't win, but can flex your reflexes. art is cute and effective, nice game made in a few days. i would personally introduce enemies earlier, but still, nice job

I like the graphics! They're really cute and super polished. The little noise when the character moves around is perfect and the movemnt itself is also super smooth. The grid column/row is really nice looking and overall the game looks great!

I was a bit confused about the game at first because the grids were empty for so long, but eventually some enemeis showed up! And that part was really fun trying to be fast about it \o/

Overall, well done!

Neat art, fun gameplay, really enjoyed testing my reaction speed, great job!

It was great fun, yes. Good job!

It seems like a simple game, but very fun. It was really interesting to play, although the last character is not clear how to control, I probably went through all the places and I can’t get into it. But overall good work.

Really simple and fun! Really good example of balanced approach for the jam game. Good job!

Great game that is well polished and builds well off of the simplicity of the concept! Really fun almost mini-game like speed, reminiscent of wario-ware like games, especially as you unlock the rest of the characters (though I only got to the third ghost type).

Would love to see a variation on the levels that were more varied, possibly randomly generated rather than the set levels that were designed but understandable due to the limitations of the jam. There are also some accessibility points that can be improved on, mainly in terms of visibility of the goal (non-enemy but rather the yellow target) that is hard to see with the lighter colour backgrounds.

Overall great and addictive gameplay that is quick to learn and fun to play around in. Love the complete package of the loop swapping between the black counting timer and the bright, colourful levels to add to the game feel as well!

nice smooth overall look. Even without the tutorial, it's not too difficult to figure out the rules.

Fun game! The idea of mini chess puzzles is really unique. I especially liked how the pawn promotes into a queen if you get it to the edge of the board.

Here's my high score: