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Nice job","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":859027,"author_name":"Martin183","author_uid":"martin183","epoch":1664906559,"text":"Cool game, some music would be nice for the mood!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":859074,"author_name":"merdeboi","author_uid":"merdeboi","epoch":1664906812,"text":"Great mood, visuals, audio feedback. Good puzzles, initially I thought the white cubes were working against me, but they help you :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":859224,"author_name":"helluin","author_uid":"helluin","epoch":1664907519,"text":"turns out lights out becomes a lot more confusing just by flipping some tiles every 10 seconds. very nice take on the theme with fitting visuals and sound design. sadly there was no music to match these despite the menu suggesting there would be","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":859312,"author_name":"retrowillgames","author_uid":"retrowillgames","epoch":1664907957,"text":"@helluin Sorry for the misleading menu option! Meant to add music but couldn't make anything I liked in time. Right now the music setting toggles a background ambience sound (Edit: Now seeing that the ambience doesn't play in the web build, oops). Thanks for playing. I hadn't heard of Lights Out,  I suspected a similar game probably already existed, but I couldn't think of a way to google the mechanic lol.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":859438,"author_name":"LDJam user 11377","author_uid":"11377","epoch":1664908663,"text":"You mentioned focusing on game juice and it really shows! Great audio and visuals accompanied by compelling puzzles. You knocked it out of the park with this one and I'm glad you were able to submit despite an initial lack of motivation. I would love to see anything else you've made and look forward to your future Ludum Dares.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":861385,"author_name":"defilerzero","author_uid":"defilerzero","epoch":1664919142,"text":"Congrats on your first LD entry (and first solo as well). Solid little puzzle game, and the timer both helps and hinders the player which is a nice twist.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":861389,"author_name":"Pietrek","author_uid":"pietrek","epoch":1664919174,"text":"I really liked the game. It's simple, but looks great, sounds great, and feels great to play. Also it's just really polished, especially for a game jam project. The only nitpick I have is that the theme is just kinda thrown on top of an unrlated game. Still, well done!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":865890,"author_name":"Zakroutil","author_uid":"zakroutil","epoch":1664973241,"text":"Nice and simple game, well polished and fun to play!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":868897,"author_name":"digitaldude555","author_uid":"digitaldude555","epoch":1665002035,"text":"Indeed it is quite juice, though the sound effect reminds me of water for some reason, took me a bit to figure out but I solved a few puzzles, very nice. Theme fits well with the game.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":873389,"author_name":"ActuallyTheMoon","author_uid":"actuallythemoon","epoch":1665078359,"text":"Really neat puzzle game. Took me a while to figure out that the white outline predicted the next cells to shift, would have been nice if the outline was a bit clearer to see. Aside from that good stuff!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":876734,"author_name":"sdelay","author_uid":"sdelay","epoch":1665149083,"text":"You rock, it is a clean nice game! You rocked on : \n* Menu, settings\n* Sound design and audio feedback\n* Good handling of the theme\n\nI would say you lacked of ambition, but the jam is about finishing a game, and you did it!\noh, I just read your description, I understand your lack of motivation at some point, and you did very good considering this.\n\nMy last question: Why \"ergo\" ?\n","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":876874,"author_name":"Lorwon","author_uid":"lorwon","epoch":1665151700,"text":"Nice entry for a first jam !\n\nEven if i do not like puzzle game, I enjoyed playing your game\n\nWell done\n\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":877140,"author_name":"Keenan Woodall","author_uid":"keenan-woodall","epoch":1665157986,"text":"Great idea for a puzzle game. My puny brain couldn't get past the level with the horizontal line though haha. ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":877790,"author_name":"Harmadillo","author_uid":"harmadillo","epoch":1665169604,"text":"Nice game. The puzzles were simple(in design, not to solve) but very nicely done. The menu art and mood was great. ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":878829,"author_name":"TrueVacuum","author_uid":"truevacuum","epoch":1665201318,"text":"The special effects are cool, but the combination with 10 seconds is not very good, but still very happy~","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":881210,"author_name":"LDJam user 233659","author_uid":"233659","epoch":1665280921,"text":"It's really satisfying to click on the squares, you really nailed the polish and sound design. 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