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Review by Mokkan all reviews by Mokkan

I find SpaceFants to be an amusingly quirky game. The graphics, music, and sounds all fit together quite well, and I particularly enjoy the Dogz/Catz-looking allephants. The gameplay seems to resemble Lemmings in that the goal appears to be to guide enough allephants to the goal. The tools available are pretty simple, but I think the concept is quite solid. It is really novel that the perspective of the camera affects the connectedness of the bridges, although I wish I was able to make more practical use of this mechanic.

I found the pathfinding to be a bit strange at times, which made the game a bit harder, as I wasn't able to reason about where my allephants would go when I placed a wall or a bridge. It also seemed a little strange to me that allephants would happily wander off of the islands, but they treat the edges of the bridges as walls.

In terms of how the game applied the TINS ruls:

## genre rule 143: Humoristic/Funny
Humor is subjective, but the goofiness of this game definitely appeals to me.

## artistic rule 147: Inspired by MC Escher
The aforementioned bridge-connectedness being affected by the camera angle is a great implementation of this rule. Also the tessellation of the hexes and the infinitely repeating map.

## artistic rule 94: Plug
I believe there is a plug for "Allefant 1" that pops up as an on-screen message.

## technical rule 113: Hexagonal
Hexes are everywhere in this game.

## bonus rule 13: Test of Might (include tests)
The readme alludes to some tests, but I did not see any test output when I ran them :(

Nice job, this is a great entry!

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 5 Technical 5 Genre 4

Review by Mokkan all reviews by Mokkan

The Beehive of Babel is a VN of sorts, and I found the writing to be engaging from start to finish. The setting was quite imaginative and fun, and the story was enjoyable to play through. I don't think the puzzles were too difficult, but they made me feel somewhat clever to solve, so nice job with that!

## genre rule 143: Humor/Funny
The humor in this game really worked for me! Very strange and random.

## artistic rule 147: Inspired by MC Escher
The tower had some Escherian qualities with its strange geometry. I think it worked well!

## artistic rule 94: Plug
The plug in this game was quite good and well-integrated into the gameplay.

## technical rule 113: Hexagonal
Hexagons were a definitely a core element of the game (the map, the rooms, the bees, etc). Well done!

Nice work!

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 4 Technical 4 Genre 4