Pinecross
Solve puzzles, plant trees and regrow the forest!
Note: This is a very rough demo and some aspects (i.e. puzzle balancing) are not fully complete.
A little picross game made for Manouk (Mossypine)'s MossyMonth creative jam, with the theme "Forest"
https://itch.io/jam/mossymonth2023
Soundtrack can be downloaded for free in the links below, thank you again to LemonPoppyseedGames for providing this!
CONTROLS
Left Click - Fill/Unfill a tile
Right Click - "Mark" tile as empty
WASD/Arrow Keys - Move Camera
Scroll Wheel, Z/X or -/+ - Zoom Camera
R - Reset Camera
CREDITS
- Code and Art by SleepyHart
- Music by LemonPoppyseedGames:
- Ambient Forest Audio by kalnkbeeld from freesound.org https://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/
- Tile Sound Effects by forthehorse68 from freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/ForTheHorde68/
- Control Prompts fom "Xelu's Controllers & Keyboard Prompts" https://thoseawesomeguys.com/prompts/
Download
Development log
- Soundtrack Update39 days ago
Comments
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I have never played a nonogram in my life, and you introduced me to it so well! The instructions were very clear and I adored the feature of multiple colours. Thank you so much for participating and making this lovely little game <3
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it and good to know it worked as an intro to nonograms! Thank you for hosting the jam, it's been lovely to see people's work and to take part!
As a fan of nonograms, I had such a lovely time playing this - the introduction of colours was a really cool feature that I don't think I've seen before! The music was also so fitting and very relaxing, and I think you and Lemon did such a wonderful job with this!
Thank you phroo! Glad you enjoyed it!
The levels take an obscene amount of time to load and the CPU usage jumped up over 30%. WTF?
Thank you for the feedback and sorry to hear that, I'm looking into it. Was this an issue for just the larger levels or on all of them?
I only played the first two levels, but I'm talking about 60+ seconds of loading. Very offputting.
This was a fun puzzle game. I liked the introduction of the different colors
Thank you for playing and glad you enjoyed it, really appreciate the feedback!
I will say, the game does a good job of ramping the player into the larger puzzles, but puzzle 12 "raspberries" was quite intimidating. I know that this game was made for a jam and it still needs a bit of balancing work. My suggestion would be to have a few more smaller puzzles to introduce the multi colour mechanic.
Hi Foxy, thank you for playing! I definitely agree, think I focused to much on systems and not enough on puzzle design. I might update this after the jam to add a few more 5x5 coloured to ease that transition (and see if I can update raspberries without breaking current save files), but thank you so much for the feedback!
Amazing take on a Picross game!! I grew up playing Nonograms and I haven’t seen one before that uses different colors. The music is delightfully soothing and perfect for solving puzzles to. Great work on this submission!!
Hey Fletch, thank you for playing and glad you enjoyed it! I know, Lem did such a good job with the music and think it's my favourite thing about it!