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August 21, 2024

noctiluca [browser]

Illuminate, absorb and transform cells in the puzzle game Noctiluca by Lucas Le Slo, created for the 'built to scale' themed GMTK game jam 2024.

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  1. WOW! That really makes you think. Totally different mechanics than I think I've ever seen. That ones gonna take some time.

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  2. Level 3 is so simple, yet I can't do it.
    What is the new mechanism for getting past?

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  3. Level 3
    RRURDLDRRRRRU.....

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  4. Stuck on 3. Is something wrong with my brain?

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    1. And then I got it on my 10th try without thinkin. Durp

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  5. I feel like the rules change.
    sometimes it gets smaller, sometimes it moves, gets bigger now wtf.

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  6. Gaah. People, why you make it a game, have it save progress. If you don't, then at the very least let us select levels. I really hate it when a fun game lets me play half, then I come back later...and now I have to replay the same half.

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  7. I can´t for the life of me figure out #5. There´s no room to get behind the shrinked piece to be able to slide it into the slot, whatever I do.

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  8. Hpspetry3 - Lbh znxr bar gnyy cvrpr, bar jvqr cvrpr. Gura hfr gur gnyy cvrpr gb chfu gur jvqr cvrpr vagb gur fybg.

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    1. Thank you, that's what I though I was supposed to do. Then to do it...

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    2. Ok I figured it out. Now to struggle with level 8. I agree with those who say the lack of a save option is frustrating.

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  9. Managed to get through it, I was frustrated with the lack of progress-saving, but it was good enough to draw me back in enough times to get through. I'm not sure I could do it again, some of them felt like I solved them by accident when I was just futzing around, but I at least have an existence proof that it can be done.

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  10. This is one of those games that I like to play for a bit and come back to later, but without progress-saving I was forced to abandon it.

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  11. Nice one !
    Walkthrough here : https://youtu.be/_czngFBxxfU

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    1. Both the walkthrough and my solution for level 6 don't use the space above the 1x2 bar. Maybe that space is an intentional distraction, but it makes me thing that there's an intended solution I'm not seeing.

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  12. @Urban Garlic yes I was surprised that this level is so simple - my solution is probably not the intended one.

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