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I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who played and rated my game, Spikes Inc.. I placed way higher than I expected to (15th overall and #1 in innovation) for my first game jam, but more importantly I'm glad so many people were able to enjoy my game. I greatly appreciate all the positive comments and suggestions on my game page. Sorry to anyone who was waiting for me to update the game, but I have decided to continue working on a larger game that I had started prior to this game jam.  Maybe someday in the future I will update Spikes Inc., including all of your suggestions. Thanks again everyone, and I'm so glad you enjoyed my game!

Don't doubt your game dev skills, it's all about practicing. If you want to get better at game dev try working on small projects that are different genres. That's what I've been doing for a while now and I've learned so much in a short amount of time. As for making your games more fun, I suggest watching a YouTuber named Jonas Tyroller. Some of his videos talk about very useful tips for making your games more fun and interesting. I hope this helps! Happy birthday!

I think you get those before you turn the water off. That way you can float up to get them.

Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately I didn’t have time for people to play test my game so this feedback is very helpful. I wish I could make the placement less restrictive but if the player gets too much freedom they could just place traps in the corner and not worry about them at all. I’m glad you enjoyed!

I love how powerful I felt in the end. The art was great! The enemy's health might need to be readjusted because in the beginning I think they had too much health and in the end, they didn't have enough health. Overall, I really enjoyed this game, keep up the good work!

This game was really enjoyable to play. The one thing I was confused about was what caused the power to be wasted. Overall, it has a great gameplay loop, great job!

This game was really fun! It was a little too easy though. If you don't buy any upgrades and just put all of your money into the machine you can beat the game pretty quickly. Overall, it was a very enjoyable game, good job!

I was actually planning on adding a shop where you could buy more lives and special upgrades but I did run out of time. I'm glad you liked my game!

The level design was really good. I like how you unlock abilities along the way. It was really hard to tell when the disable ability was activated though. Maybe you could make the disabled things disappear to better show the player the lasers wont hurt them.

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Actually you are always given a random room. Each day you are given a new room in addition to the rooms you have previously placed traps in. You need to remember where you placed traps in the previous rooms in order to make it past them without being hurt.

This game is very fun and unique! Nice job!

Fun little game! I enjoyed it very much!

Nice job! The controls were just challenging enough to be fun without causing me to rage.

This is one of the best games in the jam. I absolutely love the movement! Fantastic game!

Unique idea, nice job!

Fun game! I was a little confused what I was supposed to do but I eventually found out.

This game was so fun and polished! You definitely matched the theme, I felt so powerful at the end! If you plan on expanding the game I feel like a dodge upgrade where you have a chance of not taking damage from enemies would be really cool! Great game!

Thanks for the feedback! I'll consider these when I release the next update after voting ends.

This game is awesome and super fun. I love the art style and the game concept is pretty unique. I would love to see you add a system where the power bar goes down faster and faster the longer you survive, this way it gets more difficult. I also reached a point where nothing was left to hit, so I think it would be cool for things to grow back. 

Good idea! I'll add more lights when I update the game!

Thank you! I can't tell you how happy these comments make me!

I agree that turning the lights back on would be more satisfying. I may update this game one more time after the jam and add a couple things, including this. Thanks for the suggestion!

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I absolutely loved this game! Nice job!

This was very fun! Good job!

Great game!

This is such a fun little game!

This is a great game!

Beat that!

Great game! I want to warn you that I got locked into a 20 minute game with the poker player because we both kept playing the "Ace up your sleeve" card, which caused us to gain a large number of aces. Because we both had so many aces, it was nearly impossible to bust, which made us only able to do tiny amounts of damage. Maybe you could cap the amount of aces allowed in a deck or make the "Ace up your sleeve" aces burn after a while.