Awesome graphics and a lot of content for such a small window of time, great job! The only thing I can suggest is that maybe the battles could be shorter, I kinda felt like I was just waiting for it to be finished instead of being engaging. Maybe some sort of mechanic so that lets you strategize more. But yeah you guys were really ambicious so I get that you couldn't have everything done. Good job on the submission!

OOOH Super fun and I really like the game art and music!

Really really fun, original, well-thought out, well-polished, good graphics and audio! The mechanics deserve five stars for originality.

Amazing game, loved the gameplay and graphics, the roguelike-type loop is fun, the one thing i wished was that a description of the Element would show up on screen when you hover on the icon during battle instead of having to open a separate screen for that

This is basically a complete full game!! The polish is insane. Feature-rich, and didnt even skimp on the UI design. Very very impressive. And you even got Heartbeast to playtest it!

Full marks for Art obviously. And there is even effort into character design (I liked the backstories). I ended up going with guitar lady as she looked super unique. The peripheral mechanics, like the element types and the boardgame-esque progression is right up my alley.

The forging mechanic seems really interesting and I would have liked to do it more. The path I chose, I only got 2 opportunities to do it. 

I was slightly confused with the forging outcome, despite me reading the instruction. I was pretty sure I added more elements to faces then eventually added. I think the desync here was that the currency was deducted on application, but there was still a need to press forge to confirm? I might have gotten this part mixed up. I feel like a "preview" which doesnt deduct currency may work better, with choices confirmed on forge.

Oddly, the part lacking most was the core mechanic of dice rolling without deeper interaction from the player. If there was a way for us to influence the outcomes besides rerolling, it will have a less deterministic and "on-rails" feel. Understand that there was some strategy to make sure you get even distribution of symbols on forge, but I had limited forge opportunities to cover all bases. Perhaps each character could have a way to change symbols in your favour (e.g. guitar girl can play a note to change the enemy's type to a type of your choice before the roll of that round etc.)

But overall, this is likely the most complete, polished package of the game jam for me!

Very well produced game. 

The main mechanic wasn't fun for me, at all. There's no player agency, basically you roll and hope to get the correct symbol. It was wayyy too feast or famine. Either I get the correct roll, or I get nothing. 

Beside the game design issue, the game is very well made and impressive for a short gamejam. 

Really great graphics and cool game play loop. I didn't quite figure out how to properly forge the dice - when dragging the icons, they sometimes stick, sometimes don't.

Great overall feel and congrats for making this in 9 days!

Great work for a jam! I finished the game (one act right?) with the Samurai. Didn't try out other characters. (You made a roguelike and have three characters!)

This game offers a unique forging experience. Thinking about how best to combine the dice symbols and elements, the game really comes alive in the forging cells. I really would have liked to have the element reference during forging, so I took a screenshot next time around, and was using that.

The difficulty curve is pleasant to work with: I wasn't daunted by the initial battles, but the later ones became more challenging, so good job there.

Some of the mechanics didn't work the way I thought they would. For example, when an attack is blocked, the special effect, like Dream still goes through. And the attack also counts towards Critical even if it's blocked? Maybe these are ok (although I feel they should get fully blocked). Just that I didn't expect it.

The "Bug" element is really cool in particular. I started "holding" a dice even if the symbol didn't match, because it counted towards the "Bug" bonus. This suggests there's good potential in the core design for even more mechanics.

The rerolls are helpful. Is there a (planned) economy to them? Or I can simply keep rerolling each time?

The symbols. All I understood now was that you have to match them. Is there a pattern to them depending on the enemy? Maybe that's something to think about.

When there are multiple enemies there's more matching happening initially, which is great. But as the enemy count goes down, there are more idle turns where nothing matches. The forging should address that to some extent, but still.

Some improvements to UX would surely help. (Not counting this as a minus or anything for this jam. It's already quite good. Just notes for future.) (1) The element reference as mentioned above. (2) Once I forge a die it's frozen, which is sort of ok. But I can't view it again for reference during forging, which is a pain. (3) Being able to view the progress map during forging.

You guys certainly have something here. And I can see in the notes here you're planning to expand this further. Wish you the best for that!

This is an incredible feat for such a short jam! Graphics are awesome, the mechanics are fun and I really appreciate the help/tutorial options at each stage. Super impressed by this one! If I had to give one piece of feedback it would be that I didn't really understand the overarching goal and what role the hybrid snake plays - I wanted to know more about that especially given the great character bios! Major kudos ^_^

The game gives an excellent RPG experience. And you made it in just a single week. This is something. Congratulations. The music and graphics are very good. The Combat system is quite original. At Least I haven’t played anything like this before. At first, it looked puzzling. With one enemy, the combat was like an image matching in a game for children. But with a couple of more advanced enemies, it becomes much more interesting.

I defeated the final boss and was ready to play more :)



I didn’t fully get how the elements work. But forging two of my dice with elements/spells really won the final battle for me. On every turn, I had either a shield or a sleep spell, so the snake was helpless.

A few side notes:

1. During the forging of dice, you want to know what elements do.
2. Dice in combat and foreign were in different positions for me. Confusing
3. There is no way to roll one step back if you made a mistake during forging and exceeded the budget.
4. Some enemies are too cute.
5. The map is excellent.

Good luck with your game!

The game looks awesome. I really like the general aspect of the game, it feels really unique. You should consider expanding it to a full size game !

Also, bonus points for the music it's amazing !

Greetings from the HeartBeast discord!  Really nice job y'all.  Very crisp and aesthetically pleasing.  I could see something like this being expanded into a full game.  Nice work!

Had some trouble figuring out I have to drag the dice onto the enemy, but once I knew how it worked I had fun. The pixel art is really great and  as a huge fan of rogue-lites I love the "progress board" in-between fights.

Overall an amazing result of a jam! Well done.

This is slick, great work!

Oo the art is so pretty! The game is so well polished, I was really confused about what I was doing at first, but i figured it out, lol. Very fun! :D 

Very fun and the art, music, and sfx are wonderful!