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A jam submission

SparkworksView game page

Connect the sparks of the grid
Submitted by yumaikas (@yumaikas) — 6 hours, 56 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation - How does it look/feel?#34.0004.000
Creativity - How original is the idea?#63.7273.727
Overall#63.5763.576
Entertainment - How enjoyable/replayable is it?#73.0003.000

Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

lovely music, i got pretty close to connecting the whole network!

Developer

Originally, it was about connecting the entire network, heh.

Submitted( 1)

Very chill! I know this is a stretch but listening to relaxing music while re-assembling a "network", if you will, gave me Death Stranding vibes. I think maybe a smaller game map with more puzzle elements would add to the replayability a lot. Sometimes I didn't quite understand why I couldn't build rails on a tile.

Submitted

Very chill! I know this is a stretch but listening to relaxing music while re-assembling a "network", if you will, gave me Death Stranding vibes. I think maybe a smaller game map with more puzzle elements would add to the replayability a lot. Sometimes I didn't quite understand why I couldn't build rails on a tile.

Developer( 1)

Yeah, more puzzle elements were definitely things that would have been nice to add, but building random puzzles the way this works gets really tricky to think about, especially when tired, heh.

The rule with not being able to place tiles is that if a space has two lit rails next to it, you can’t place a rail there. The aim there is to keep loops from happening, so that the end result looks like a tree, or a lightning bolt.

Jam HostSubmitted

Any chance we could get a build which doesn’t require such a new glibc? Or maybe an arm64 build? It won’t run on my kids machine because the OS isn’t new enough and it won’t run on my machine because mine’s not intel.

Developer

So, the Linux build is defined here. If you know a quick way to make either of those things happen, I’d be happy to spin up a build for that.

Both Janet and Raylib can be built from source, that process can be a bit fiddly, but it might be easier/possible to follow with that workflow locally, and spin a build off of that?

Submitted

Definitely encourages a meditative mood! Would suggest that the character might move in steps aligned with the sprite grid -- it felt very sluggish compared to pointing with the mouse.

Developer

That is a good point, actually. It’s something I’d do if I keep working on this, or do something similar puzzle-like again.

( 1)

I really enjoyed this. Very nice work!

Submitted( 1)

Very relaxing vibes. I liked the subtle hue shift in the rails that were active!