Lizzi Crossing

i love nonograms, but i've never really understood minesweeper -- until now. omg this is so fun and creative and the colors are really nice to look at. great job with this!!

This game is a bit too smart for me but I still really enjoy it! Great work dude!

Oh my god.

I love Nonograms and Minesweeper so I decided to give this a try. Now it’s one of my favorite games!

I cannot believe how fun this is to play and it scratches a weird itch I didn’t know I had to switch between puzzle logic on the fly. Keep up the great work! It would also be rad to see stuff like custom themes or sounds down the line! Oh, or key shortcuts for placing markers (!, ?), that’d be rad too~

Hi,

Thanks for contributing Lizzi Crossing to the itch.io bundle for racial justice and equality. I had a nice relaxing evening with this game. 

I've been writing reviews as I roll through the bundle, and here's the one for your game!

https://knavegaming.com/lizzi-crossing-review/

This game is very cool, I enjoy playing it!

loved it! I would personally prefer if there weren't levels where the path to the stairs is connected by only leaves as these levels are very easy, but it's okay :)

Really enjoying this game!! I'm a bit confused about what the sparkles are/how you earn them?

Interesting UI experiment, great implementation, not a game for me though.

This was a ton of fun! I'm glad it came up when I was playing Itch-roulette lol

This is a fun, relaxing game and I like it a lot. I could see myself playing this a bunch while listening to something.

If I had one request, it would be the ability to cross off the nonogram numbers on the side as you confirm their locations, but that's really just a quality of life thing.

I will say it's a nice touch that you can't walk into tiles that you've marked as mines.

When it is launched on steam? I can't donate many US dollars because the limit of region and currency... I had sent an email for you and I am a Chinese so I can't use my PayPal...

Do you have a demo available? 

I would like to buy this but struggling financially at the moment so I'm a little hesitant. I am also confused how the fusion works.. Minesweeper rules allow any Minesweeper puzzle to be solved. What does the addition of Nonogram offer? That should surely just make it even easier to solve so I assume there is a twist, very curious as I love a good puzzle game! :D

Really been enjoying this, combining the two games is so clever and well done! It's perfect for when I'm listening to podcasts and I have sunk in many hours so far. One bug(?) I've encountered is since passing 1000 on the score/sparkle count, the number disappears permanently, leaving a blank space (reopening the game doesn't help).

I really like the combination of mechanics! I would love to be able to mark a bush with an X for like a guaranteed safe bush so you remember when can walk to it

I love your game. I'm a fan of nonograms and adding mines to it gives an extra layer of difficulty that I've really enjoyed.  I find myself playing this mostly in the evenings to chill out.

My only critique is to echo another user: preventing the player from stepping on a revealed mine and taking damage again would be awesome.

If you lose a life, when you continue playing the game later, it saves your score points (sparkle) but the lives revert back to three again.

This is an amazing fusion of concepts. I'm wondering if stepping into a mine can make you auto-bounce back and make you unable to step on it again. Sometimes I can accidentally pass through a mine to a dead end and then have to double back over it, which costs me 2 lives.

EDIT: I'm also wondering about why the game is marked as "Released" instead of "In development" if it's still undergoing updates. It's missing sound effects, for example.

Fantastic game! I have no idea how many hours I've put in so far... Thanks!

What a fun game! I love both minesweeper and nonograms, so I think this game is fantastic, so much so that I wanted to look up the developer to tell you myself.  Definitely keeping an eye on future updates in case you ever add any additional features.

yay keep it up! this game is super fun lol i love it 

maybe add a save option or high score option or something too pog

I'd love it if there was an option for game resolution! The game doesn't scale with the window and it makes it really hard to differentiate numbers sometimes...

A little too addictive! lol. I booted it up and was like, eh, okay, pretty simple puzzles... and then I couldn't close it for over an hour LOL! So I'd say the game is a success for me XD

One thing that did confuse me was how the tiles are initally randomly colored blue/green, since when marking tiles as mines/question marks, they become green or blue respectively. I'd expect that either the background color wouldn't change when marking tiles, or, even better, that the background would be completely different color(s) for "neutral" unmarked tiles. I see that the "high-contrast" mode has a separate mine color, which is cool! But it seems that the question mark is still one of the initial colors :o

A game that combines two games that I have obsessively played in the past? Bless you 🙏 but also goodbye to all my free time lol

great cute little game! i enjoy both of the source games and i never would have thought to combine them, but it works well and i like it a lot!! thanks for a fun game to play when i want something light but still interesting!
it's nice to see new updates rolling in frequently also : )

the one small feature i'd love to see added is echoing another comment here - it'd be super nice to have a "not a bomb" flag since you can't immediately reveal a tile you know isn't a bomb, like you could if this was regular minesweeper. 

I recently got into nonograms/picross, it's a cool novel idea, and any game where you play as a frog is cute. The difficulty does seem to vary a lot, one level might require using a combination of picross hints and minesweeper hints and take a while, and the next might have a path of "zero" mine tiles from the start to the goal, so it doesn't require any puzzling at all. looking forward to seeing what's added in the future!

A suggestion:  Since some levels can be easily solved without the use of any number clues, it would be more challenging to have the exit locked, so the player must also find the location of the key to unlock the exit before progressing to the next level.

Some way to mark that the nonagram part has been cleared (Maybe by crossing or darking numbers on the sides of the playable board depending on whether or not they have been flagged in a possible way?) would be nice. I also hate that I can't manage to finish any of these boards fully. I'd love to be able to actually fully clear these, somehow.

I think this game has a ton of potential. I love nonograms and I love minesweeper, what a cool concept! But there are definitely things that could be improved.

1. Wish the "!" mark would block you from stepping on it

2. I kind of wish you could start like in minesweeper (no blocks opened) and then put your character in the 1st place you click

3. There should be a way to see what your high score has been

There is also so much room for updates, I'll be super excited any that come

This isn't a combination of games I expected, but I had a lot of fun with it and I'll definitely be playing this again in the future. I like the pixel art, it's cute and has a soothing palette.

I love the addition of the "?" flag, it's very helpful.
Seconding the request to make "!" flags act as walls, and the request to add alternate palettes. The current colours are lovely, but even though I am not colour blind, I find the field a little hard to read once a lot of numbers and markers are in play.

Edit: Ran into a bug/display issue(?) today. I got this puzzle with a block of 10 mines, but the hint says "9":

Thank you Eva,  for the 1.0.1 update!   The added "?" flag really helps in solving the more difficult puzzles (like the one below).

Looking forward to this one!  I do so love seeing old game mechanics given new life in new contexts.  (Have you played Hexcells Infinite?)  The combination of the two types makes this especially appealing.

Since people mentioned colors: If you haven't yet accounted for colorblind players, I hope you consider adding at least a couple of color scheme options so players can figure out one that works well for them.  I'm not colorblind (though one of my nephews is, and he comes over a lot), but I often like the colorblind sets more than the normal sets -- for example, in Mini Metro.  And greater color choice is always a plus.

(Someday I'm gonna run across a game that repurposes Backgammon as some war between Girl Scouts selling cookies and chasing off the rival gang.  I've long felt that Backgammon mechanics would suit a game for younger players if it had cutesy graphics and some more interesting context.)

Learning curve is a vertical cliff if you're not very familiar with both original puzzles but great game! :D

This is a very cool game :) Can you please implement a save function in the future ? Or maybe a high score feature :D

Great game. I would suggest not allowing the player to walk on marked tiles marked with bombs, and it would be nice to have a flag for "this is not a bomb" for tiles you can't get to. Not sure if either of these would take away from the game. Perhaps they could be options / difficulty settings.

I enjoy both Nonogram and Minesweeper logic puzzles with procedurally generation.  So this is an innovative and great addition to any puzzle enthusiast library.  

I just have two suggestions.

 First would be to enable the Unity pop-up which allows the player to change the video resolution before starting the game.  The default setting is extremely tiny on modern displays.  A lower video resolution would be more suitable.  I had to manually change the settings to full screen with a 800 x 600 resolution in the registry so I could play it.

My other suggestion would be to change the color of either the Nonogram or the Minesweeper Clues.  It's difficult  to tell which clue belongs to which since they're so close together at the top and left borders.

Oh, man, I can already see myself playing this for hours. I do agree with Ikasama below, though on the numbers thing. Also it can be pretty small on a 64-bit computer, and it doesn't increase in size when you maximize the screen.

Overall, though? I love it. c:

It's a really good idea and easy for the player to get the hang of. The only critique I have is the numbers being the same for the nonogram part and the minesweeper part. It makes it difficult to read which numbers belong to which part if they're exactly the same.  

i love this!! i'm a big fan of nonograms and minesweeper and its so cool to see them put together. thank you for the really cool game and for putting it towards a good cause!

This is really great. Directly controlling a character through the board makes such an interesting difference from the usual abstraction. And there's no denying how good the mechanics from these two games work together. Makes a hell of a case for further development.

Thanks for adding your game to a good cause. :)