Sea Magic

So far, this is the only score I can manage, I can't even beat size 2, slide 2, and turtle 2, and I haven't gotten to one of those weird bottles in the corner of some levels, but I have practically given up

Neither the in-browser or downloaded version work for me.
I'm using Windows 10 Home v.22H2 and Firefox v.136.0.2 (64-bit). When launching in-browser it just gets stuck on a black screen.
When launching the downloaded exe it plays music but the screen only shows black with 1/4 of the screen being white. The attached image shows everything in the cmd prompt.

The game won't launch for me because of an error in linking shader in transmission

Great Game!
INCREDIBLE SEQUEL!
Very fun mechanics (even if slide was making me insane for a while)




SPOILER FOR SOMETHING THAT DIDN'T WORK

I'm really surprised this didn't unlock some kind of weird overlapped/meta level

Great game, good seaquel!

On a whim (I was mainly interested in seeing low ranks; you can finish the game with just 2000 points collected), I tried to minimize scores and at least ice 2 seems to be interesting.

Update: I've managed to finish ice 2 with a 100 99 score without boxes, picking up the first star at 56 points. So close to Double digits!

Casual Player New Run Scores

(Edit: I made some improvements, and I replied to this comment with screenshots of each level at each of these scores (or a slightly lesser one) if you need a hint. )

Favorite level rankings

(More fav) move 2, slide 2, slide 1, size 2, move 1, lily 1, ice 1, turtle 2, ice 2, lily 2, size 1, turtle 1 (Less fav)

To the developer:

Favorite part of the game was the no box challenge.

"Lily" like "lily pad" is typically spelled without a doubled "L".

General Hints:

I needed 11 boxes to start getting hard bottles, but that's probably my fault for not thinking hard enough (trying goat-note-tech for those in the know). The order I got the hard bottles was slide 2, then move 1, move 2, and slide 1. Unless there is some sort of slide chaining behavior I missed, slide 2 is the gatekeeper bottle.

Great game and keeps with the spirit of Bee Magic despite the change in objective (min-maxing vs. win with restrictions).

It would be nice to have some clear indications of the “best” score for each level as something to aim for, i.e. the optimal score with n# boxes, or without using knowledge learned from the “messages in the bottles”, etc.

Even like an indication on the “leaderboards” people are posting would help. (How many boxes did they use for that score? Did they use “vanilla” powers only?)

Those optimal scores might not even be known, however, (as there’s so many tools available once the player gets into the end game) and I can see how pushing the barriers without a clear answer is preferable to others.

(i couldnt find a solution to this puzzle i think there might be a mechanic with slide im missing??)

Have you considered making a metroidvania game with this spell system? They would be a great fit.

I figure I should post this here in case people want to know what good scores look like.

Unoptimal scores I know of in this image (the parentheses are the score I got/have seen):

• Slide 1 (1600)
• Size 2 (1680)
• Lilly 2 (1680)
• Turtle 2 (1360)
• Slide 2 (1488)

I think I found a bug.  If I move up from this position, a lilypad will spawn inside a whirlpool and instantly move also moving the whirlpool.

I opened the first secret in slide 1 and I have no idea what it means

got 4 on turtle 1 and 1 on turtle 2

Making me a dolphin.

Edit,

with the power of boxes I easily improved those scores to 520 and 91, which isnt good, but at least its better

i am done with this game

this was really fun

damm i did horribly on turtle 1

uhh it isn't properly cropped for me

When the active respawn point is slid into a whirlpool, the tile vanishes but you still respawn there (on the whirlpool), which feels quite strange.