Shift Shape Adventure
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This is an entry for round 2 of the GDKO 2025. The theme was "Storytelling" and additionally two requirements:
- Include a non player character (I included the snakes)
- Include projectiles (I included shooting)
I plan to continue expanding this game for the next rounds of GDKO.
Controls:
- Move = ⬆️⬇️➡️⬅️ or WASD
- Open/Close Manual = M
- Restart = R
- Transform = 1/2/3/ ...
Please ask any questions in the chat and I will try to provide hints, I designed the game to be mysterious and to be difficult
The game is finished once you collected all the 12 pages I did not have time to make a proper game end screen.
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I also got a ghost snake which makes it impossible to continue
nice game! would like an undo button but otherwise pretty solid
Thanks for the compliment, I can implement a undo button, will need to refactor the code a bit though to make that possible. 👍
Oh no, this is a bug, thanks for reporting!
I'll try to find why this is happening.
In the meantime you can press [R] to restart and return to the last checkpoint
There are a lot of parts I can't get past.
Which part specifically? I can give you some hints!
This game is incredible! It improves on the original in almost every way, though I still wish it had a more traditional ending screen.
I really have to start working on adding more traditional ending screens, I did not learn from my past mistakes 😅
Any hints on the translation? I don't know where to start.
This game was made for a game jam in two weeks. I did not have time to make an actual language, the texts consists of a bunch of random symbols I drew.
No need to translate
Do you think it would be fun to translate the manual, I could potentially add some kind of meaning to it.
Yes, I would love to
Haha nice, this is a good excuse for me to pickup some linguistic puzzle book I recently found
Great game, got the real ending and all 12 pages. You really have something special here. Would love to play the full game if you ever end up making it.
Thanks a lot! I think I will make the full game eventually. Still figuring some things out, do you think I should keep the manual or should I drop it and focus more on the metroidvania type gameplay?
great game but after unlocking shape 4 you can just dig the hole here and skip the rest of the puzzles
i would love to see it become a full game tho
Haha, I did not expect anyone to find this! Good job!
This is the shape I used during development to quickly iterate over making the puzzles.
yeah, that breakable hole was way too suspicious for me to not check it out XD
amazing easter egg tho and also you did a great job at teaching the mechanics of the game
Thank you! I plan on making this into a full release eventually, you can track the progress on my youtube channel, I will be making a video about the game:
https://youtube.com/@joszsmakesgames?feature=shared
Great game. Good dificulty (could be a tiny bit harder). Reminds me of Speleomorph by hcs64, but it does not have shooting and has one different mechanics.
Found the sixth shape and 12 pages, but the manual still says missing pages after 12. Is there more or can i rest? :)
Yes you can rest, 12 pages is done! 😁