Medusa's Mind Maze
Avoid Medusa's gaze and all the obstacles in your way in this turn-based puzzle game! Made for the Do you WANNA Jam?! 2023.
Note: Please play on 100% zoom for the intended experience, there are some UI issues if not. The last level is a bit buggy if you move too quickly.
Controls:
Arrows or WASD to move
Space bar to close eyes
R to restart level
Programming & Art: Manisha
SFX: Pixabay
Music: JasCas (cashwarrior1)
Epic soundtrack:
Comments
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Super cool game. I personally would've loved to see a level with the combo of Medusa's gaze and gargoyles. But, hey not complaining as it is a jam. Loved the little details like sound effects, the texture on the path, and level failed fx.
Oh thank you very much!! Definitely ran out of time to make more levels. Glad you enjoyed :)
The art looks great as always. The level progression is nice and linear. And the dangers are easy to understand how they will behave. Nice job! Thanks for hosting the jam!
Thanks Mr. Moo! Glad you liked it. Congrats on your ranking~ Was a blast hosting again this year!
Awesome game ! with indeed a nice ramp up. although i needed 3-4 tries at the start to finally see and understand the "!" but had no problem after that.
I found the balance of theme, ambiance, music, graphics very well thought-out and i think switching the maze (dealing with medusa's gaze) can bring quite a few possibilities to spice up the difficulty for more levels.
Thank you very much :))
Cool game ! Cool ramp up of the mechanics, nice ambience and cool art. I had a bit of a problem to understand how the spikes were working, the fact it's turn base made it a bit weird since you have to go in when the spike is still there but without the "!" I wonder if a little animation of the spike "shaking" like it's about to go would've been clearer. Other than that maybe having a better tell of what killed me when I die. I had to give up on level 11 since I kept dying from something and I had no idea what was killing me and it's hard to get better if you don't know what you did wrong.
Cool game tho, well polished.
Thanks RockyMullet!
Yeah for sure, the spikes were two states at first but then i realized that made no sense so I tried to come up with a lame solution to give it 3 states haha A more practical visual indication would have been better for sure! Level 11 is a bit bugged, sorry! I had only spent 3 days on the jam so its definitely lacking in areas~ Maybe i should have just cut that one out haha. Good news -that was the last level of the game xD Thanks for playing :)
This looks pretty interesting. I don't really understand how it works though. I keep dying at random instants!
Hey! Thanks for giving it a try :) Its a turn based game so everytime you move, any obstacle or enemy does a move as well. The '!' shows up on the spikes to tell you that their next move is dangerous. Hope that helps :))
Thanks, that part does help. I still can't pass level 5 though (which looks different from the screenshot). I just seem to die randomly in the middle when there doesn't seem to be any danger.
Nevermind, I figured out I needed to eliminate the snakes before moving further. Should be made a bit more clear.
Nice game! I just reached the end.
I appreciate you retrying!!! The game is a tad buggy as i only spent a couple days making it. Might come back to it eventually tho:)
Super creative and fun. I love it!!!
Amazing game!
thank youuu :)