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A jam submission

Path Of Least ResistanceView game page

The game for GameOff2022 Game Jam
Submitted by PathOfLeastResistance — 22 hours, 45 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Innovation#233.8703.870
Graphics#404.0434.043
Theme interpretation#983.5653.565
Overall#1583.2173.217
Gameplay#1932.9132.913
Audio#3821.8701.870

Ranked from 23 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

GitHub repository
https://github.com/PathOfLeastResistance/PathOfLeastResistance

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Submitted(+1)

To be honest, I start playing the game casually and I was like "Oh! Let's stop now and wait a better time to be really focus and take the most out of it!". So hype over 9000 !

Unfortunatly, I didn't take the time to really appreciate the experience of solving those puzzle and come back on it wayyyy too late..

Anway, having a game that teach you basic science is really cool ! Thank you a lot for that. I didn't really had the chance to study that deeply so it's always nice to experiment through a game.

Apart from that, the theme interpretation is a bit niche but works. I didn't have audio when playing in browser not sure if it was my setup or something.

Really good submission!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Really nice game! I love the art, the cliché is very well illustrated. I'm a generalist engineer and studied all this a long time ago, it took me a while to get back into it, and had to look up the last part because I completely forgot how it worked x)

Thanks for bringing back the memories and for the fun time (I actually spent a whole hour solving the thing, mixing up the last connections with my buddy in screen share over discord XD)

Submitted(+1)

I'd really like to understand how you integrated this in unity however!

Developer

Thank you for playing! We decided to use popular electricity solver called CircuitJS, and implemented some of its basic features, like diodes and resistors rewritten in C#, all source code is available under game description, it's a bit messy cause we hurried a lot :) I think our levels are too difficult for such Jam game, so we had to make these videos haha)))

Submitted

I learned more from this game than from my university about circuits! XD Well done

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing! I'm glad to see it can help to learn electricity!

Submitted

Great idea. I'm clearly rubbish with circuits though. I found it a struggle to remove leads that I had put on incorrectly

Developer

Thanks for playing, I have an idea how to make interactions more comfortable

Submitted(+1)

I look forward to seeing where you take this. There is potential for something really goo

Submitted (1 edit)

It wasnt able to load the textures for the circuits for me, but the idea seems cool. The english also has alot of problems.

Developer

Thank you for playing. Can you tell what was the problem with textures? Can you show a screenshot?,I hope we will fix such mistakes (and texts) after the end of Jam

Submitted

Great implementation of the theme. I love the art.

Developer

Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Really impresive.

At first game loaded so slow I started to think it wasn't loading. Seeing how it uses 3D assets I guess game just might be larger than I expected would be cool if there was dowloadable version too.

Developer

Ah, yes, we have a lot of textures and baked lighting, it's a good idea to move it to downloadable assets, thank you!

Submitted(+1)

I was completely fooled by the first scene and thought it was more hand-drawn art. Nope! Nicely done.

Developer(+1)

Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

Interesting idea!

Developer

Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

I can tell this game is well made but I don't know anything about electricity. So good thing you made a walkthrough.

Developer

Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Beautiful artwork! Nice puzzles, had to remember my physics classes

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

This one fly far above my head haha. I tried to understand the mechanics of the puzzle but having zero knowledge in electrical field make it super difficult for me.  Nonetheless, I love the whole concept of the game and it's refreshing to see something new in the game development scene.  

I hope you guys keep working on improving the game even after the results roll in. 

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

Thank you for posting a walkthrough! The 2D and 3D graphics are both excellent and after experimenting a bit I went through your video. Definitely learned some circuitry today - overall great work!!

Developer

I think we could have worked harder to make an ingame tutorial to help solving first levels without our youtube video. But we are so happy to see that electricity can be a game! thanks for playing! 

Submitted

Really hard game .. I have no clue about circuits and I feel I cant play that.

I saw you have a walkthrough so I ll probably go watch that tomorrow. I havent rated the game yet since i havent actually played it. I was just connecting things in the first level to see if i can make things work lol.

I have to say though the art is amazing in the game, and just messing with the modules seems fun. So good job on that. probably one of the best looking games i played so far in this jam.

Developer(+1)

Hi! Sorry for our level design of first levels, we did not have enough time to recompose the first level to make it more friendly to show electricity concepts,  It is too difficult to start from (I showed it to my wife and several friends, and realised that a day or two before the submission). So we've made a video tutorial to handle this problem. Thank you so much for playing! I hope our walkthrough can help to pass levels, and I think we can also make a pdf with circuits (we could have added them to the phone dialogs as prompts, cause our formulas and short examples in dialogs are not enough haha)


p.s. I will live you a link for a walkthrough in case you would like to play again! Thank you!


Submitted(+1)

Hey thnx for the reply!

No need to apologize 😃 It just needs some more time to get used to things. I ll get back to it when I got some more time!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

All the art and design is so beautiful. nice! This is really hard. I was trying to sort of trial and error my way through it, and I got the signal SO CLOSE to matching, but couldn't actually figure it out. Now I am seeing that there's a tutorial up on youtube, I'll try again soon!

Developer

Hi! thanks for playing! It seems you are right, the error equals 0.15 volt is too small and it is not so easy to tweak the potentiometer so precise (or maybe the potentiometer should be bigger)

Submitted(+1)

If ever a game needed a tutorial it was this! Once I realised how things worked I really enjoyed it, but I had to watch your YouTube playthrough of the first puzzle to refresh my knowledge of circuits. After that, the second and third puzzles I was able to do on my own. If it had a tutorial I could see this being a fun educational game.

Developer

I am so glad to see that walkthrough was helpful, you are totally right, our difficulty curve has a real gap on start. Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Wow, amazing simulation, this modular approach is something they teach these days? Had to remove the mental cobwebs of my electronics classes, but 20 years ago I'm pretty sure we didn't work that way, haha. Looks convenient though. The aesthetics and the gameplay feel pretty solid. I would have used a gesture to rotate the modules, which would have been more useful than the camera rotation. Other than that, this is a round entry. Congrats!

Developer(+1)

Hi! thank you so much for playing! We've done the gesture for rotation of elements, but I think it is not very intuitive, hold the left mouse button and scroll wheel, I think we should think about UX more in future, maybe something like selection and manipulators can be used maybe... Thank you for review! 

Submitted(+1)

It took a while to figure out whats going on. Good job though. 

Developer

Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

The game seriously needs a tutorial; it is completely obscure for someone who doesn't know much about circuits. Unfortunately I couldn't complete the first puzzle.

Other than that, the controls and visuals are super impressive! Well done!

Developer

Thank you! you a right, unfortunately we did not have enough time for ingame tutorial, so we decided to make a walkthrough! I hope you like it! 

Submitted(+1)

Understandable, there's never enough time to do everything. I watched the video and I think I understand a little bit more now. You could say your game is also instructive :D I may try it again later to see how the story ends.

Submitted(+1)

You did a full Zachtronics-style puzzle game in a game jam? That's ambitious and impressive. Sadly, I'm going to need a walkthrough.

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Hi! thank you! And we have just maken a walkthrough with explanations! Hope you enjoy!


Submitted

Thanks for the tutorial. I increased my ratings. :)

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