[The game is available on HTML and Window, be sure to play in full screen on HTML for best experience!]

Main Mechanic

Slide and stop right on the stair to continue to the next levels. The light mage leaves crystals on tiles went through and destroys it if it is already there. The dark mage will see these crystals as solid blocks, helping in an ice-sliding puzzle. The opposite is true for the dark orb of the dark mage.

CONTROLS 

 WASD or Arrow keys: Slide 

 Space: Switch character 

 Mouse: Interact with GUI

SETTINGS

"Double Dealing Illusionists", as the name implies, is a game where you control two different characters (a light mage and a dark prophet) to descend the dungeon together. The magic the mage casts and be seen as a barrier to the prophet, and vice versa. This creates an illusional path for them to move through the dungeon safely. However, since they two share the same fate (i.e one dies if another does), you have to help them maneuver their path so that they can avoid dead-ends.

DDI is a simple ice-sliding puzzle topdown game, in which you "slide" instead of moving. This is the biggest motivation for you to use the complementary power of these two characters to illuminate a path.

Puzzle-solving has never been my flair, but in this case, I took risks creating puzzles that are both intuitive and challenging (hopefully not too frustrating). I already solved them, but not in the minimum number of moves.

Can you prove me wrong? Then solve these 9 stages in an even smaller number of steps than I did!

CREDITS

  • This is my second time participating in the GTMK jam (and this time as a solo developer), and I still honestly have much to learn (please be critical to me if possible).
  • Still, I'm very proud of what I have made in this jam, compared to the previous entry I have already grown a lot.
  • Programming + Sound effect: me
  • Music: FesliyanStudio and Pixel Beats
  • Art: free assets from Itch.io

Download

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WindowBuild.zip 26 MB

Comments

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Hello I'm searching for anyone who knew pixel beats and i saw you used one of his songs on your game.

We are trying to contact anyone who had any contact with pixel beats, he removed his youtube channel and all other accounts from the internet. If you have any information about him please contact me at jhlmacedo@gmail.com or this thread on reddit where we were able to recover most of his songs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chiptunes/comments/rt6h84/we_love_you_pixel_beats/

We are hoping someone can help us understand what happened, we want to know if he is well.

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Nice graphics, good idea with a lot of potential, keep up!

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Looks fantastic! However, when reloading the page, it seems to break the game. Additionally, I seem to die on level 1-5 for no reason. Very cool concept though!

Oh that's new, it was supposed to reload the game when you reload the browser, if it is a critical bug can you give me a screenshot so I can fix it after the rating period? Thanks very much! As for level 1-5 the bug is that the circle squishes with you if you swap, kinda hints to which path you should choose also, but yeah I will fix that no matter what!

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the game seems confusing and gets boring after a while maybe add hints when the player is  struggling

Thanks for your feedback! I will provide more hints.

your welcome

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cool but what does the game have to do with the title? theres no illusions

Actually the magic the mages cast was illusion to one and material to another (like the light crystal being touchable only by the dark mage), and yeah I just couldn't think of any catchy names :<

thats ok, but you should maybe add it in somewhere