THE GOOD PARTS

• I liked the general idea of this game. It kinda reminded me of the dungeon generator in The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, which is kinda nice and solving the puzzles in your head before attempting a run felt sufficiently rewarding to keep me going.

• The ambiance is good enough. I felt that the ambiance would have been better with some improvements to the whole “blackness” that generally governs the skies of this dungeon but the setup does the job correctly; I felt immersed and wasn’t really distracted from what the game had to offer.

THE BAD PARTS

• The puzzle generator is not too clear at the beginning. I’m not saying there should have been a tutorial for it but I do think that maybe spending some time in the dungeon generator would have worked wonders regarding what the player can expect when the decide to “delve”. Maybe showing a top-down preview of the generated map would have helped a lot with this, but I understand that it’s a jam game and there’s not too much time to implement everything.

• The pacing feels too slow. I know repeating the newly generated level is part of the LOOP interpretation of this game but sometimes I felt like it was a drag; I can’t really put my finger on to what’s exactly causing this friction but I’d say it’s a mix of “secret” areas not being thoroughly communicated and not being able to preview the level [remember that this is a jam an people will spend 5-30 minutes in your game TOPS, unless they become REALLY engaged] so knowing that I was expected to look for those areas with a lamp that barely lights anything was a huge deterrent for me [I know this is highly subjective but I’m aiming to comment on the game feel].

CONCLUSION

This is a fine jam entry with some room for improvement. I really like the idea of having a “dungeon creator” so to speak and it’s something I’ve always wanted to build on my own. This idea resonated with me and I felt the potential that this game has.

Beware of its caveats, though, play this game with patience and you’ll enjoy a great jam entry!

This is fantastic.

Super lovely game in all categories! If I were to get super duper nitpicky, I'd say maybe an option to turn off the screen warp when you sprint - it gave me some potential motion sickness vibes. Which also makes me think you could make something like this into a really neat VR game? Think about it. I'm rambling.

Really nice game, congrats!

I love the concept! I thinks is pretty original!

I'll suggest to make the Effects a little quiet compared to the BG music.

Love the run effect and the fire effect!

Nice done!

solid 5 star game

It's the first time I've seen a mechanic like that! Pretty neat. Caretaker's path was annoying as hell to go through though xD. 

The main idea is really cool and original! However, I wanted to finish it, but because of the bug where the view tends to move itself on the right, I didn't want to try more in order to finish it (even if I like a lot the game). Apart from that it is a nice game!

Ah, very nice concept. I died several times because it was hard to see.

I love your story line and the design of the game that connect each other room together. this is so smooth! but something it's a bit dark to see or memorize the room. Great game!!

I really liked the idea of mixing and matching the rooms!

There was a bug which made the platforming very frustrating - the camera would slowly and constantly turn to the right without any input. I had to keep jerking left to see what I was doing.

The idea of the key and the lantern were great!

Great idea and unique take on the loop theme. I had fun but got stuck and wasn't sure what to do once I unlocked the solarium. Might have to come back to it later.

One point of play testing feedback: scrolling to take out the key is very finicky when using a trackpad with inertial scrolling.

Very cool concept also you presented it well, you can still work on your player controller probably tweaking some values to make it feel much better but overall great job :D

Very fun. Very comfy game. Nice aesthetic. Designing the level with each run is very fun. One critique is the time to die which you addressed in someone else's comment. It's important in these types of games to get you back in the action without too much time to feel bad. Other than that, I enjoyed it a lot

This is a really interesting concept for a puzzle-platformer. Turning the act of "designing" the level into a puzzle was really clever

The idea, concept, implementation was super good. I loved dragging rooms into the portal and making all different looping combinations. Really neat!!

I just I could die quicker. Having to fall off the map every time I wanted to build a new map was kind of annoying. Maybe making the kill box higher up so when you fall off you restart quicker or a button.

Really good job!

Love the concept of this game, really creative and original! Amazing work!

The concept is so creative I have no idea how you came up with it, but it works so well