
Expression Compression
A downloadable game for Windows
Expression Compression
a math game without numbers
By NotExplosive
Controls: Play with the mouse
Made for Ludum Dare 49 in 72 hours with the theme "Unstable."
(Cheat code: CTRL + SHIFT + SPACE to skip current level)
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Rating | Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings) |
| Author | NotExplosive |
| Genre | Puzzle |
| Tags | Abstract, Ludum Dare 49, Math |
| Links | Ludum Dare |
Download
Download
reckoning-main.zip 32 MB
Version 4 Oct 04, 2021
Install instructions
Download Zip
Extract
Find the .exe in the sea of DLLs (sorry)
Run
(If Windows complains): More Info -> "Run Anyway"



Comments
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oh no, it cant be. MATH!!!!!! i am in shock, i am in shambles, you have me shivering.
first of all the starting sound gave me a heart attack. i open the game and get jumpscared by a strange noise. every time i reopened the game it jumpscared me, even when i was prepared. nothing can prepare one for that strange noise. its not like its bad, just confusing and it hits you right away while being louder than expected.
fun thing you can do. if you keep filling the corner, the game gets really laggy. if you do it with an animated number like danger the game will struggle even more to the point of becoming unplayable. after enough mitosis, the numbers will form into one singularity on the left side that incorporates all the numbers you have duplicated. if you spam try to duplicate them(it wont work as the game is too laggy to function) the game will eventually crash. :)
a delete function for the box would be nice. otherwise if you make a mistake you need to reset, or use other numbers like multiplying by zero to clear the box. a reset for the box would be a lot nicer.
the division stage before the antizero is stupid. i solved for x, but the game isnt capable of solving my equation. everything needs to be done step by step or else it wont work and terms wont cancel out. i had to divide by x to isolate the term i wanted to cancel out. otherwise it wouldnt woork. that was super frustrating and i spent like 20 minutes trying to figure out, what i was doing wrong. turns out i wasnt wrong, the game just couldnt follow my thought process. i literally just had the term i wanted to multiply divided in such a way, that the game didnt recognise as canceling out the part i wanted to cancel out.
wait hold on, maybe not. the way i tried to solve it was by resoiving the multiples first. that didnt work. im 50/50 on weither thats the games fault or if the divisions dont work out that way due to the box applying affects universally. when resolving the additions first, the term can be solved for x in one step. so im not sure. i was frustrated, but i recognize that it may have been my mistake, not the games mistake. still hated that level though, mainly due to how frustrated i was, either due to my or the games fault. but you made this a math game so i blame you.
there's something that could happen which makes no sense, if you multiply a prime which is being multiplied by another prime, by -1, then both primes get the blue box meaning it would be equal to the primes being multiplied together but also being multiplied by -1 twice and -1 times -1 equals 1 and anything times 1 equals it's self
could add a sandbox mode after the player completes the game, and you could add a way to play other players equations, it's just a suggestion so don't if you want to! and only do it if you want to and can
That's a fun idea! This game is several years old at this point so I probably won't be adding anything new to it but user-generated content sounds really interesting!
Thanks for playing!
once you have some free time you might be able to code that in, if you try then good luck
someone might make a mod for that