As above, so below (Erkberg)
About
An atmospheric, relaxed puzzle / drawing game about connections and the stars.
I'd love to see your constellations, please share them in the comments! (the game has a built-in screenshot feature, just press the print key on your keyboard and a screenshot will be taken and saved to the game directory)
Sandbox mode is the main mode in the game. Here you can draw constellations with configurable amounts of stars. You can still switch to "below" in that mode, but there is not much to be done there.
I unfortunately scoped a bit too high for everything else. Story mode and "below" gameplay (and visuals) still need a lot more love until they can be called finished.
Here's an excerpt of my list of TODOs for a post-jam version:
- improve story mode / below gameplay by adding more mechanics (pickups to increase amount of star lines drawable, buttons to disable obstacles, maybe a mechanic where the below affects the above, making some actual use of overlapping starlines mechanic etc.) and by adding some more concrete story along with matching constellations
- turn story mode gameplay into actual puzzles by removing the possibility to go "bit by bit" (as seen in level IV)
- build a lot more story mode levels with some actually brainteasing puzzles
- add gamepad support, polish below visuals / UI / transitions etc.
Although far from finished, I'm actually really happy with how the game turned out and look forward to continue working on it.
And I also look forward to see how other participants interpreted this really great theme!