Fun game! I enjoyed the crafting and the battle simulation and the fact that you've done something unique with this game. Nice work :)

Pangolins, of course, they have scales. I think you guys are the only ones who thought of that. Running the armorsmith's shop was all right, everything worked great, I like the hammer bit the best. THWAK. I'm a simple man.

You certainly know this, but the armor-smithing definitely needs the other side of the game more realized to lean onto for the design to hold up. Two distinct game modes that inject elements from each other is a big task to attempt, even massive studios usually shy away, I think of the X-com reboot as an example of a game that does manage to balance two distinct modes that feed off each other, one focused on strategy in the overworld and the other on tactical grid battles.

Here it's some kind of auto-style tactical battles on one side with craftsmanship on the other. Pretty interesting approach, I can see why it appealed to the team. Really puts pressure on the armorsmith to deliver Quality gear. I assume the loot from the tactical battles was intended to somehow fuel the creation of better armor scales for your Pangolins. Would be interested to hear your thoughts how you saw that going further.

All said and done, I enjoyed donning my pangolins for battle and I would answer the call of the hammer again. 🔨

Felt like some whacky stuff, perfect game jam game. However, the part after the crafting did not work for me

I played it twice but when I got to this part the pangolins walked up to the enemy but nothing happened. The buttons changed the text but nothing more. Thought that it was just a strange bug so I replayed it but the same thing happened.

I got really confused the first time, I guess I am bad at reading. I was supposed to make a triangle but had another shape and though that I had to create a triangle by cutting the corners with that shape. I found out later that you can actually switch haha.

The press down part I never got right, not sure if I did it correctly. Were you just supposed to turn the valve with the mouse? Sometime it turned really fast.

The spike and color part was too easy. When you hammered the spike they could be hammered down perfectly or they could be a bit janky. Even if I hammered them down wrong I got a perfect score. Is the score only about the amount of spikes?

A last thing, the game started on the wrong screen for me and I could not change it. I don't expect that game jam games have support for that but maybe add a window mode later or an option to switch main screen.

The narration is really nice with the images.
The crafting is perfect with this randomization.

Maybe it would be more funny, if the animals have the crafted items in the end. But maybe just the deadline was the problem.

First of all, congrats on hitting the deadline! It's clear you put a lot of hard work in, but you possibly ran into scoping issues.

Mixed themes like this can and do work, but it takes a lot of skill to pull them off. Where this could be improved is the theme of the presentation, the vibe jumped straight from "quiet workshop" to "nature documentary".

The workshop scene is about just following instructions and once you understand the instructions, it's easy to get 95% or more on all metrics. However, you demonstrate skill with putting a 3D scene together and polishing it, and the task / controls are intuitive.

The battle scene is where I realise that this game's scope was enormous for a month game jam and it was going to be a lot more than what we see. Potentially a JRPG alongside the workshop gameplay loop?

I would suggest, don't give up, do more jams! Next time, choose fewer themes (or a single theme),  pick a main menu plus one gameplay scene, work out how resolve scoping issues early on and avoid scope creep because when crunch time arrives, all that time you think you had disappears (even on its own, a single game idea always has more aspects than anyone can predict).

In all, this was an admirable effort and a lot of hard work, well done! Sorry for the wall of text.

Great idea! I enjoyed making armor for these cuties :) I think I found a bug because I tried several times and nothing happens during the battle

Scattered themes are fun, but like right on the edge between absurd and confusing smorgasbord.  Crafting, and story, and animated battling. I actually really liked watching the battle.I lmao to "Tip: Did you know you know nothing?"

Quite a fun crafting crafting game! During the first step the cutter for the plate was jittering a bit but I don't know if that's a problem with my hardware or not. Definitely will turn out to be something special if you continue working on it. Great work! 

Very unique entry! Not what I thought it was going to be going into it! I thought each stage of the process was nicely thought out and made for a fun little game loop. The bonus game at the end was also a nice surprise.

My only comment on potential improvements is that the pressing stage of the game was a little unclear on how it worked. I got pretty confused on my first attempt and made a pretty crappy plate. Even on future attempts, while I did better, I was never able to nail it.

Fun and unique! Best of luck on the jam and on your future projects.

Quick thing, in the download link, you should set it to be a Windows executable - that way, the game can work in the itch desktop app.

The mechanics of making scale armor is very well done, the painting works great, the cutting physics are solid (and I know how difficult those can be to program), and the fight scene at the end was very cool. It just feels like there's something missing?

To me, the game would work better if it had a loop where you collected supplies from the battles to improve your scale armor business. Maybe that was intended and you ran out of time, idk. But, as cool as the scale crafting physics are, I feel like I would have been more interested to see a gameplay loop with more push & pull to it.

Love seeing the handiwork of all your scales at the end!