Really like the visuals and look of this game. maybe a touch slow (speed cpu?)

The visuals give it a really nice feel and something that could be expanded on into something interesting.

enjoyable and what is there is good :)

the keys gave me a difficult time.

and at some point, even W stopped working, so i just sat there spinning around, looking at the map, wishing and hoping for a blob to come kill me.

and one never did.

I really did not enjoy the movement here and I had a bug, where my mouse cursor disapeared and I had problems closing the map screen. But the tile placement idea is really cool and the pixelization shader was a nice touch, especially that it looked like you were trying to emulate double wide pixels, like on a C64.

I really like the idea behind placing down map tiles as you go but unfortunately, my character moved out of the grid, so I couldn't progress any further.

Hey!

I tried really hard (30 min) to get through the 3rd level but once a green slime touches me my health drops -5 per step and then i have -350 at some point and can still walk but once another slime hits me the game says its over but i can still see the game behind the screen and can move further! But I cannot end the level this way. I will try to avoid the green one but it is really hard. Other than that I really like the approach here!

What I liked

• The map-replacement-void thingy (this is a nice twist!)
• The pixel graphics over the 3D environment looks great!
• Different kinds of potions including the regeneration potion. That is smart and leads to ...
• The puzzles that are made using the map and the potions which are the best thing!

What could be better?

• The map overlays the screen and does not display the tile orientation, so I cannot know how the tiles are oriented. This is problematic for corners, since the direction is not clear. I managed to guess the direction right after some tries tho.
• In level 3 after a green slime hit me my health would drop slowly below zero in the far negative range. Touching another slime that hits me after that will kill me instantly. Health potions do not revert or stop that process.
• The controls are a bit fiddly. I guess its a mix of collisions and timed enemy movements that prevents smother controls here. At some points i need to walk sideways to get through a corridor at some points I cannot move at all (in some of the big rooms with potions i could not get over the center.)
• Fighting the slimes is not always working since the W key is not always responding. Also slimes can walk onto the same field as I am and stick in me.

All in all, I would love to play it in a more finished version and try to beat the puzzles that come after level 3 ^^.

But congrats for a released game in a game jam!

Keep it up!

I did not beat the fourth level but on the positive side it gives a good hint of how cool the game would be if movement worked properly (I won't add much to what other said, it's very slow and sometimes walking forward does not work, turning and crab-walking seems to always work though') and/or if you could easily see the directions of the tiles you're placing without closing the map (but maybe I missed something regarding this one).

The game is not really playable as is but good job anyway, the art is very good and the gameplay would be too without those technical issues.

I love the visuals! Is the game rendered at a lower resolution or is it it shader trickery? The movement is both snappy and sluggish, the character moved fast but it felt like there was a delay between when I moved and when I was allowed to move again. One issue I found is that somehow, my character was no longer facing along one of the axis veered a little to the left so eventually I would run into the walls to my left blocking move movement.

Regardless, I'm glad you were able to finish your game! Congrats!

I like the pixelated aesthetics and the surroundings. I would want to play more but the controls doesn't agree with me. They are way too slow and unresponsive. Make'em snappy and responsive and the game will be much more playable!

Hello there fellow Unreal Engine user :)

There is something weird with the controls - they don't seem to respond sometimes? (Are you using lerps? They tend to jam the inputs a lot...) I wasn't able to continue playing after a while because of that... sorry...