nice but idk why you would be happy as being sad destroys everything which allows progress while being happy is pointless (maybe thats the message but idk)

The colour palette pulled me in, the sadness engulfed me.

Great mechanic, wanted to play this when first watching the snippet on Xanderwoods channel. Great work!

I like it, very creative ability :)

Really nice artwork combined with an ability I have never seen before. Well done!

It had bugs and I would add walking animations but still good job.

This game is by far I think the deepest of any I’ve seen yet, not mechanically but emotionally. I think if you were to make this into a couple levels with a small wordless story, you could make people cry real tears. I think it’s a great ability and a fantastic concept, and I think you could make a really powerful game that could help people if done right. No pressure or anything 😅👌

Nice mechanic and you balanced it nicely by giving energy bar. It could make a good top-down survival / puzzle combo gameplay.

Ohhh this is really interesting. I like the spin on "not doing the thing" rather than doing it and can definitely lead to some interesting puzzles. Nice one!

Nice art and a very interesting gameplay. I'm very excited to see how will you continue this game

You game description cracked me up. I want to say I did my best to avoid bumming people out on the way to my bedroom, but on my first run I just wanted to destroy everyone to see if there would be a different outcome. It was fun and my guess is you'll have different end-states and scores in a bigger build (if that's part of a later challenge), but for a short prototype I enjoyed it.

I thought your art was nice and the color palette was a perfect choice to match sadness. My small critique is I think you could have used your character art and done some small changes and color swaps to be the NPCs instead of big yellow smiley faces ... I like that the smiley faces are a quick read and easy to understand how they're feeling, but they felt a little out of place with the other art.

Overall, great work.

Interesting mechanic, and nice artwork!

I dig the concept, though like the others said it's not clear how this would play out in a proper level.
But I am sure you will figure it out, looking forward to it! :)

Cool metaphor of depression, but what exactly are the consequences to *not* smiling? The terrain turned weird colours... and that was it. If you don't give the player any incentive to do something, they most likely won't. In this case, it's enough to just slowly walk to the bedroom.

I like the concept, but I am not sure how it will translate into the gameplay/design. The art is really good!

This art is very beautiful, congratulations for the idea and execution of the project, I believe that at this level of pixel art, even if you draw a stickman figure it looks beautiful, congratulations.