Stars Align
You are a lizard, who is also a wizard. You have the power to cast a summoning spell to pull tiles towards you. Your mission is to align all the magical tiles in order to ensure that their magic power can flow freely. Can you line up the tiles in all 15 levels?
Created in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 55. (Theme: "Summoning.")
(Unrelated to this puzzle game Stars Align, which I wasn't aware of when making this... whoops. Check that one out too though!)
How to play
- Use the arrow keys to move around.
- Use the space bar to pull a tile towards you. Tiles can move over empty spaces but not gaps in the level.
- You can pull tiles from as far away as you want, even from the other side of a gap.
- Your goal is to line up the lines on the edge of each marked tile with another marked tile, with a clear path between them. They can align over gaps, but not through walls.
- Blank tiles can be moved around but don't need to be lined up with anything.
- Brick walls block alignment and the character's pull power.
- Z to undo, R to reset, M to mute.
Tools used
- Graphics: Aseprite
- Game engine: zucchinibread.js, my browser game engine
- Level design: Tiled + ulvl
- Sound effects: PXTone and Audacity
- Music: Ableton Live
Comments
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Another excellent puzzler, everything after level 5 was a headscratcher so you really delivered some of your best here.
thank you! I’m glad you found it challenging and to your liking. :)
Really like it, but the controls are so finicky. Every time I try to turn, it turns and moves, and I have to undo/try/undo/try/etc. until finally I just turn. It took a long time for me to discover that turning without moving was even possible! Is there a way to fix that?
Yes, this is pretty easy to fix, there’s a constant I need to adjust in the code. It seems like this definitely varies between people – I and others who have tested it didn’t find it super difficult to turn, but other people have really struggled with it, so I will probably adjust this after the Ludum Dare rating period is over.
edit: Now that the Ludum Dare rating period is over, I’ve uploaded a tweaked version where the timeout for ‘just turning’ is a little longer. If people continue to have issues with this, let me know!
Another really fun puzzle game! I got very, very stuck on Level 9, but I eventually made it past somehow. Took me about 2 hours total.
Perseverance is key sometimes I guess, haha. Glad you were able to finish it, thank you for playing! :)
Stars Align Gameplay
Keep at it, I believe in you :)
i just beat the game, and i loved the concept! its very cute and fun, and a good twist on the push the box type of puzzles. i was stuck on level 13 for a while but i figured it out on my own! im going to try your other games too :)
thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
It's impressive how almost every game you make provides unique gaming expierence ! Like , you're one of the God's Chosen Ones for puzzle games concepts ) I enjoyed chain thinking which this game provides . But 11th level looked boringly symmetrical , i decided to stop . So still - my favourites are "The Great Flood" , "Hazel&Hector" , "Pigeon Post Principle" )
Haha, I appreciate the kind words, thank you!