video sculpture w/ cool sense of scale, also just kind of playing with physical objects/environments in space
i found this game while looking for weird stuff to show to my students and i think it’s really great! such a good atmosphere.
Icefishing V is one of my favorites. If anyone tries it and doesn’t know what to do and wants a hint, try entering things that look like phone booths.
New small puzzle game by the Baba Is You developer
Bit of a DOS platformer throwback, seems real clever, my ass is stuck bad on Level 9.
I played this a day or to back, simple gamejam puzzle game where you have to gather every block before hitting the exit square, but when you touch them they attach to you and make your character block bigger so it comes down to figuring out what shapes will pass through the various gaps in your way. It is fine.
(btw if somebody plays this and passes Level 9, please tell me how, I’m losing my mind)
I’m on 11 I think but I don’t remember 9. Let me check and I’ll let you know.
Maybe post a spoilered screenshot? I don’t know if there’s actually a way to get back to that level through the interface and I don’t want to break my save.
oh yeah that one is going to be hard to hint. make sure you’re thinking about all the mechanics you learned so far. if you don’t fully understand those mechanics, you might need to do some experimentation.
if that doesn’t help, let me know where you’re getting stuck and i can provide more targeted advice.
basically i’ve tried getting and dropping the bomb in (i’m pretty sure) every single available square i can get to after acquiring the bomb. i know (or think) i need to drop the ‘land bridge’ on the right so i can fall onto it and walk to the exit. which i can do, but i can’t figure out how to do that and get the gem. am i seriously missing a mechanic? i replayed the first 8 stages before taking that screenshot and didn’t come across anything that i thought would help me with this one.
no, that all sounds right. you have all the mechanics you need to beat that level. maybe you need to examine more closely what conditions could create a land bridge.
thanks for all this. but damn, i feel like i really must be missing something. maybe it’s a lot more obvious than i realize it is. is there a way to trigger the dirt falling that isn’t the bomb? is that what i’m missing. as far as i can tell i need to use the bomb to both explode my way over to the gem and drop the land bridge, but there’s no place i can drop the bomb that does both. have i just not tried the right spot?
i have spent close to an hour on this stage, i think. any additional tips you can offer appreciated!
that’s all correct. you need to both open the wall and drop the land bridge with the same bomb. it’s not a matter of just dropping the bomb in the right place, you have to create the correct geometry within the stage. the falling dirt only happens in specific conditions.
if you’re still stuck, the solution is this:
dig a tunnel sideways from the bottom of the ladder so that the land is disconnected, put a bomb on top tile of the ladder, so it hits both the rock wall and the land bridge. this will both dig a path left and drop the land bridge. go under the diamond, make it fall off your head, collect it, and exit the level.
Ok, thank you! I will try this when I get a minute to get back to my computer. I think I know what to try.
oh the save file is in AppData\Roaming\LD48_Hempuli\save2 and you can edit which level you are on in there, it’s a plain text file with 7 lines
also if u press ctrl-w u auto skip the level ur on which i did accidentally a few times
Another puzzlejam puzzle game, this time a puzzle platformer. Basically you can freeze an area of the stage around you and “screen wrap” within it, so if you walk off the right side of that area you then appear on the left side. It’s a concept that’s been done before in a more fleshed out fashion but this is a solid take on it for the ten or so minutes it takes.
Also now looking at the comments I see I’m not the first SBer to try it!