Comments on: Niña Neuve (Jonathan Whiting)

By: Nic

Nic — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:40:42 +0000

This game does a great job of introducing its mechanics. Many games resort to explaining things with a text box, but here the levels are designed so you can figure out the rules on your own.

Good music too!

By: Nic

Nic — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:38:33 +0000

I got stuck at one point (The first time the music changes). When I changed floors, the boulder fell behind some glass panes and I couldn’t get to it.

By: nobody

nobody — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:09:51 +0000

Those empty floors serve a gameplay function as well. Without them, failure on the level immediately below would force you to repeat the one above (during which failure would take you even further up/back). So the empty rooms serve as a clever backstop to all that potential repetition.

By: thecreepyhour

thecreepyhour — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:39:51 +0000

I guess nueve makes reference to the fact that the rooms are 9×9 tiles in area.

Nice game. The concept of a small, changing box as a wider space is very appealing to me. Also liked the rooms? floors? where you don’t actually do anything, which serve as a prelude to actual puzzle rooms with the same layout. And the almost minimalist repetition of concepts/challenges. Yes, I liked this a lot.

By: Jonathan Whiting

Jonathan Whiting — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:03:44 +0000

Ah, thanks for spotting the typo. It should be Niña Nueve everywhere! Blame bleary eyed proof-reading after an intense weekend.

By: David T. Marchand

David T. Marchand — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:01:36 +0000

Actually, maybe in this case the correct translation would be Girl Nine.

By: David T. Marchand

David T. Marchand — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:59:42 +0000

Beautiful game! It's strange, the page of the game is called Niña Neuve while the in-game text calls her Niña Nueve (which, by the way, is Spanish for Nine Girl, which surely has some meaning?).

By: nobody

nobody — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:53:04 +0000

This is excellent. Similarly to Fracuum, it takes a bit to fully understand the implications of the central conceit, with the ‘one room’ concept here seeming at first merely aesthetic but ultimately proving to have a whole series of concrete gameplay implications. Unraveling precisely what those are was very satisfying.