Very charming. Great job scaling the difficulty and teaching the core gameplay through level iteration
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Super interesting concept and game loop!
There are some pretty cool ideas here. I really like the way the level shifted perspective, going from "move forward in the y plane" to "left to right" and back again. And the water bobbing physics on the floating platforms was a delightful surprise!
Straightforward maze-runner. Minimalist, functional graphics and UI. Music very good; upbeat chiptune/electronic. Gameplay is well-done! Character speed resets on collision, encouraging replay and mastery to achieve higher scores. This along with the explosion/force field power that is used to be defeat enemies and open doors (walls?) introduce a surprising amount of strategy to the moment-to-moment experience. Level design is also thoughtful with meaningful forks and a path that trolls the player at one point. Needs more content but solid experience already
Good-looking prototype with gorgeous main character sprite animations and moody, relevant backgrounds all set into a CRT arcade-cabinet presentation. Chunky voice clips and dark but energetic music. All in all, the aesthetics are on point with this one. Falls short in gameplay with some odd design and balance choices. Screen does not smoothly scroll but "jumps" forward a tile every second or two. The goal is to dodge or destroy obstacles but there is no other threat; obstacles damage your score but score is gained every obstacle cleared so it quickly becomes impossible to die. Game can be cheesed by spamming attacks. Still, great presentation; recommend polish gameplay loop and add some enemy variety
Short and clever visual novel/hidden object game. Reminds me of Slay the Princess in that the context and details of the story seem to change depending on the choices you make. The presentation is well-done; good font and palette choice, subtle and pleasant indicator when hovering hidden objects. Music is subdued and meditative.
The creators had a good sense of scope. Although very short, I didn't feel like anything was missing, nor did I feel like anything was unfinished. With minor changes, could easily imagine this as a short demo or a single scene from another, larger game
The UI was really well done on this project. There's a surprising amount of feedback and polish on things like selecting menu items, screen transitions, and even the example buttons lighting up when pressed in the tutorial. The subtle background parallax was also pleasant. Despite the simple sprites, the game has a polished presentation
Thanks for playing the game on stream and giving your live feedback! You guys are super important to game jam and indie game visibility!
Sorry the cutscene text dialogue was so slow lol. Since the cutscenes were less of a priority and my time was very crunched, I wasn't able to implement a button input to click through individual dialogue boxes, only for skipping the whole thing, and I just kinda winged it deciding on how long each would take to cycle
As far as the combat system, I left a general guide at the bottom of the game page if anyone wants to see how it works in more detail before/while playing
Thanks again!
Hey, thanks for much for giving the game a try and for leaving a comment! CheeseFestivities did a great job with the music; they really came through with composing tracks for specific moods and scenes.
As with any game jam, time was super limited, especially in this case since it was my first time creating a turn-based RPG, so I'm glad the story elements and cutscenes did some work. And limiting the combat abilities is actually a cool idea - if we revisit the game after the jam I'll try to incorporate that. I agree as is the game is a little too easy and some of the monsters are a little overtuned (like Dex, and I believe Pakka), so getting this feedback helps confirm my suspicions on the game balance
Thank you again so much!
Thanks for the review! It's cool that you came up with a similar idea, I do find it to a pretty compelling premise - I'll try to check out your game soon. Thanks again!
Thank you for playing and for leaving your thoughts! I agree, we had a great musician and artist on the team for this project. I'm sorry the text speed wound up being too slow, but I'm glad you let me know - hopefully after the rating period I can revisit the game and add in adjustable text speed and/or button-scrolling. Thanks again!
Ouch, I'm sorry friend! I don't have a mac myself so I didn't have any way of testing before release - I believe it's related to the capitalization in the file name, which I wasn't aware of until after submitting. I will attempt to correct and reupload after the jam, but I'm sorry you didn't get the chance to play
Thanks so much for the kind words and useful feedback. We had a great team - lucky_drago did the art and CheeseFestivities created the music, and together we imagined the gameplay and mechanics
Any errors or lack of clarity in design implementation was my fault alone lol. I tried to come up with ability names that would communicate the type of action they were (basic, elemental, evasion) but I don't think this always came across, and it still kinda requires the player to know the stuff in the "Guide/Hints" section of the main game page. With that being the case, I erred on the side of making the game easier, so that even if a player couldn't figure it out, they'd probably still win by the odds being in their favor
It wound up being so easy that I had a hard time testing the lose condition and actually had to do the same thing you did lol. But with time being limited, I figured it best to keep it easier than hard. Thanks again for playing and giving such great feedback - if we revisit the game after the jam, I'll ramp up the difficulty!
Thank you! We had a great artist on the team
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Thank you for playing and leaving such a kind comment! Glad you enjoyed it!
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This is actually a legitimately fun experience. It reminds me of like, ad hoc D&D sessions you'd have as a kid in the car or cafeteria or some other place where you didn't have dice or books or anything and were just doing whatever for the hell of it. The whole vibe is very casual, very anti-professional, anti-commercial; the result of some purely creative mind let loose on a new medium with no expectations or fucks given. Great work!
hey, tried playing but got this error