Elemental Sudoku
Elemental sudoku is a casual puzzle game where sudoku meets Doodle God ! In this game-prototype consisting of 16 levels, the player must face the task of filling various sudoku-grids in such a way to restore balance between the elements. No two same elements can be present in the same row nor column and each box represents the combination of its present elements
Example : mud = water + earth
This game was made for the Terry Cavanach game jam (September 2021), is my first game jam entry and was inspired by the mobile game "elemental sudoku" by vostu which was a personal favorite of mine in my youth. Sadly enough it got removed from the app store, so I decided to recreate it in a few days. Since it is my first project, many things are missing, but since it was made in just 3 days I don't feel bad about it. Maybe a more polished version will be coming out one day ? (the code was designed in such a way so it could support very large grids and thousands of elements)
This was a lot of fun to make, so I hope you enjoy it.
(All code / art by me)
UPDATE 12/09 :
- Since it was sometimes confusing that individual tiles in the sudoku had to be filled, I've changed the individual sprites that are alone in a group to new ingredients (for example : what was individual water is now pond, wind is now breeze). Thanks to the folks who mentioned this ;) !
- I've also heard in comments that a retry / clean sudoku button could be nice so I added it. A huge thanks to the people suggesting this !
Thanks to everybody for leaving comments, it was greatly appreciated ;)
Comments
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I believe the accomplishment made me smarter. Your puzzles are entertaining and challenging at the same time, I really wonder how can you do that :0 Great Game B)
I finally gave your game a try. It's pretty cool! I got to level 9, then it wouldn't let me proceed even though i distributed the elements according to the rules.
I think it'd be great if there was some sort of feedback to the player when something is wrong. Other than that, it's very good :) maybe make it a little bigger ^^
Hi ! Thank you for your kind words, it is really appreciated ;)
Yes, this was a game that I'd made in a few days for the jam, so it is in some sort of incomplete state sadly enough... Even though it is just a prototype for the moment I'd really like to continue working on it. I am planning on fixing the UI, adding more elements and implementing some sort of feedback and tutorial. I'll also (eventually) port it to mobile
Have a nice day ^^
Cool game. Guys you have to right-click an icon to see from what it is made of. I was confused because I didn't understand why a cloud needs fire, until I saw in the comments that it is steam, not a cloud XD
Hi, thanks for your comment :^)
Looks nice - but I can't even solve the first puzzle :)
I thought the following seems to be the right combination, but it doesn't move on to the next level.
Hmm strange... Did you put the right elements on the right spots (fire in the fire, water and fire to form steam ?) I guess my game could have used a better tutorial to explain the rules, which is unfortunate since one understands the rules, it forms fun puzzles.
Anyways thanks for giving my puzzle game a try ;)
Ah, I made "steam", but didn't "get" that I could (and had) to put in water/fire in the "pre-occupied" fields as well.
Hi !
Thanks for giving my jam entry a try!
I've just added an update that maybe fixed this issue (for potential future players) where the alone slots now have a new recipe. Pond must be filled by water, breeze by wind etc.
Anyway, have a nice day ^-^
If you know how to play, It's a little easy in the beginning, but it gets trickier ;)
Nice game.