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Robot University v 1.13
Developer   puz
GenrePuzzle
PlatformWindows
Downloads563

About: A simple-rule block-fitting puzzle that awakens untapped powers of your right brain and discovers the visual genius in you.

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Very nice. There's some clever puzzles that get outright difficult later on.

[EDIT] After playing for a bit I do have one criticism:
The blocks (especially the red and brown ones) have a tendency to be really hard to spot when your rushing to get the puzzles done. Perhaps altering the colors to differ more from the background, or even add a small outline to pieces. Either would likely fix this one small issue.

[Edited by - FalconDragoon on October 20, 2009 3:32:42 PM]

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Very nice. There's some clever puzzles that get outright difficult later on.

[EDIT] After playing for a bit I do have one criticism:
The blocks (especially the red and brown ones) have a tendency to be really hard to spot when your rushing to get the puzzles done. Perhaps altering the colors to differ more from the background, or even add a small outline to pieces. Either would likely fix this one small issue.


Dear FalconDragoon:
Thank you *very* much for your feedback. It's the first real feedback on my game since I joined GameDev about 11 weeks ago and just for that, it was worth the money. I agree that something must be done to fix the problem of pieces blending into the background. Again, thanks.

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Glad to oblige =) keep up the good work.

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Nice to see a new game in the GD showcase :)
I was a bit confused when the game started at "Level 11". You should write it "Level 1-1" or something like that.

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Nice to see a new game in the GD showcase :)
I was a bit confused when the game started at "Level 11". You should write it "Level 1-1" or something like that.


Dear A-E:
Thank you very much for playing my game and giving me feedback. I implemented your suggestion. All I had to do was change "%d",L to "%d-%d",L/10,L%10. I love easy suggestions ;-)

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Quite fun, and can be quite challenging with the strict time limit that's in place.

As far as improving it goes:

- I couldn't find a way to turn off the sound, I prefer listening to my own music when playing games typically.
- Maybe a level selection could be added, so you can easily swap between levels. I know it's possible to go back a level, but then if you do that too much you can't then skip forward despite completing them previously.
- Saving and loading so you can continue from where you left off, auto-save + level selection would be a nice combination.

Other than that, looking good!

- SD

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Quite fun, and can be quite challenging with the strict time limit that's in place.

As far as improving it goes:

- I couldn't find a way to turn off the sound, I prefer listening to my own music when playing games typically.
- Maybe a level selection could be added, so you can easily swap between levels. I know it's possible to go back a level, but then if you do that too much you can't then skip forward despite completing them previously.
- Saving and loading so you can continue from where you left off, auto-save + level selection would be a nice combination.

Other than that, looking good!

- SD


Excellent suggestions! I will do my best to follow up. Thanks.

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