Sticky Turtles! by Sevansevan
Let's catch some turtles today! How many can you get? :-)
(It is possible to catch all 25, but feel free to stop whenever you feel like it!)
Arrows to move, Z to undo, R to restart.
07/10/2025: fixed some incorrect texts
| Link | https://sevansevan.itch.io/sticky-turtles |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/sticky-turtles |
Ratings
| Overall | 96th | 3.45⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 86th | 3.45⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 55th | 3.65⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 93th | 3.65⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 194th | 2.55⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 105th | 2.875⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 162th | 2.868⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 23🗳️ | 16🗨️ |
Clean code without bugs. I didn't know this engine easy to understand.
My only complaint is that the undo button isn't super helpful for solution exploration, because of how many moves you might have to undo, once you've realized you've gone down a dead-end - It would have been *really* nice to have an "undo to last turtle" button as well, because the time I spent undoing meant that it would be faster to restart 90% of the time instead of hitting undo.
But dang, this is a *ton* of fun. I spent about a half hour playing so far, and I *will* be back to try to 100% all of the turtles. :) Great job!
You're right, an "undo to last turtle" is well-thought ! Very tricky to do in puzzlescript though ^^
I told you I'd be back to 100% it :)
This was *so* much fun - Solution spoilers below
!> The way the level design taught me how to create "staircases" with my turtles on the left in order to get in/out of the narrow "lock" openings was great. That led to a massive moment of realization that I *didn't* need to grab the turtle on the far right to start, and could use the same staircase pattern to sneak in/out of the far right lock, which was also so good. And the fact that I had to put that far right turtle all the way to the left of my massive tower in order to keep from getting too tall was such a fun eureka moment! Really really fun, and I'm sad that it's over now. Great job!
If you enjoy these kinds of puzzles feel free to visit the rest of my creations on https://sevansevan.itch.io/ :-)
That last bit was brutal! (In a very fun way :) )
!> It was such a fun moment realizing that I had to grab the last turtle on the left midway through clearing out the top area, in order to reach the upper-rightmost turtle!
I'll have to check the rest out later! Thanks for sharing! :)


I'm surprised because ||I usually do areas in the following order : left right left up right up|| so I guess you found a different turtle order :-)
@liquid thanks for the encouragements :) I feel like this levels kinda covers the mechanic already, not sure I'll do additional ones :)
But now that I think of it I guess you can always do better puzzles with a portal gun mechanic... O:-)
The game looks good. The written permission to drop off early is definitely appreciated. That said, I'm glad to see that others completed this as it definitly looks like quite the challenge to do so!
Lovely turtle game ^_^