Nice game! I like really like the sound effects, and I appreciate the checkpoints between each section. The difficulty increases very sharply at the end of the game. Maybe more levels would smooth out the difficulty curve.

The visuals also looks pretty good for a game with just squares and circles. Well done!

what a lovely puzzle game, short but sweet! this game delivers such a nice auditory experience! the chill but slightly dissonant BGM evokes that tense but anxious feeling of trying to calmly fit in an unwelcoming environment pretty well (the death jingle also is very fun to listen to)! the sfx also are really well put together, from the grunts of the red squares, the ambience, and the static really illustrate the tone that you wanted to deliver, nice work!

the puzzles are also really fun and engaging! they aren't too long but are really nice bite-sized showcases of the main mechanic, which is really neat (i think the mechanice was explored pretty well)! the visuals are pretty simple but also nicely communicative, with no entity or graphic being unclear on what purpose they serve, which is pretty neat! nice vignette and fish-eye lens too! though one nitpick i have is that the vignette kind of blocks some of the shapeshifting meter, which can sometimes make it hard to tell when it would run out, but it wasn't that negatively impactful to the overall experience.

all in all, i enjoyed playing this a lot! nice messaging too! you portrayed it pretty well with the character shape-shifting into static! the general shape is the same as the rest, but is visually distorted and messy. the visual and auditory experience of the main character "pretending" is grating and uncomfortable, resonating perfectly with how they must feel to be someone they aren't, really nice stuff there, great work!

Real fun to play!

I wish there were more puzzles)

Nice game - got the end :) Really well presented and a unique style - it's great what atmosphere you've been able to create with just geometric shapes!

I did find the insta-death a bit too annoying at times. I wish there was a little bit of grace on that, instead of an instant death if you touch just one-pixel - but I was glad the auto-save goal points weren't too far apart.

Nice job though - I enjoyed playing it! Good luck in the Jam :)

Hi, just finished playing your game! I really liked the lens distortion effect on the whole scene, and the enemy's sound effects. The music fits very well the game and gives a very dreamy vibe to it. I also liked a lot the idea of the glitch mechanic, very fun to play!

Very nice game and good luck with it, I really enjoyed playing <3333

I thought it was fun I liked the sound effects and thought it a clever idea.

Cool game! a bit too hard but had a good time

I like the sound effects. The gameplay was challenging and refreshing.

I really liked how you utilized all these different game mechanics and how they interacted with each other. That was really nice game design. I liked it!

I think this is one of my favorite games from the jam, I love the the CRT affect and I really like your ability to tell a story with just a few simple shapes. Really killer job! (under rated)

Though Circling Different doesn't stay for long, its short puzzles and fine timing when it comes to shifting are fairly engaging.

More importantly though I think is your messaging. I think it goes without saying that we all will put on masks throughout our lives, maybe multiple times per day. For some of us, like our circle, it's necessary to even survive.

It's cynical, but very real. A shame that the squares can never seem to find it within them to truly accept a circle, even when the latter can find it to fit within the other.