I've never been good at puzzle games, but this one was a treat for my caveman brain!

• The unique mechanics lent themselves really well to this kind of puzzle game
• Chinstroke-worthy puzzles made me feel very smart after solving them
• Colour palette was used really well, the choices complemented each other beautifully

While I wish that some mechanics were explained a bit more and that the 'break' theme had more of a focus, I think you two did a great job creating so many mechanics and levels in such a short time. 

Great work!

Ummm... what am I supposed to do in level 4? I tossed the turtle to the buttons and even stepped on it but nothing happened.

Anyways, good jailbreak game. I can see where the break theme is.

This is a super cool take on the concept of "breaking." You're making good use of the palette - the player and the other relevant objects stand out well from the background, and the dark blue colours really sell the idea of the prison too. Doesn't seem like a very nice place at all!

I liked the puzzles overall, and you're playing around with the central mechanics in interesting ways. Some mechanics aren't super intuitive, but I think that's fair for a puzzle game, and the tutorial does help. A few levels took some trial-and-error, but in hindsight the solutions always made sense.

I did find the game a little hard to control at times. I had some trouble aiming my jumps, with the character often slipping off ledges or not quite making it over walls, and I occasionally dropped turtles on my own head and got stuck under them. The game is mostly a puzzle platformer, so it wasn't a huge problem, but perhaps the physics could be toned down a little.

All in all, good job! This was a neat experience.

The puzzle mechanics are nice, although I had to find the solutions more by accident then by understanding what to do. I didn't manage to solve all levels. Also the jumping could be kind of slower. It's a bit to "aggressive".

I really liked the graphics of your game. Also the music is pretty cool. Sadly, somewhere in level 4 or 5 an error occured. A turtle clipped through the ground and at the same moment, the music died and I had no more sound.

stuck on level 5, both keys dissappear at once?
aside from that the aesthetic and audio are great, neat idea but could use some work

Cute small-scale puzzle platformer with clean presentation and a nice sense of context.

PROS:

• Art does a really good job of making pieces of interest (player, objectives, etc.) vibrant while subduing other elements of any given level.
• First couple of levels do a good job of tutorialization and lean nicely into the theme with the controls scribbled on the walls of the prison similar to messages left by former inmates.
• All the pieces (art, audio, game feel, etc.) feel well made individually and make a nice sum of several parts.

CRITIQUES:

• The tutorialization falls a bit flat with things like breaking the jar to get the same effect as picking up the grass. I managed to discover that one, but mostly by accident.
• I honestly didn't make it past level 4 due to my inability to figure out what I'm supposed to do with the pink switches/platforms. Possibly just me being dumb or tired at the time, but I didn't see a way to interact with those panels/switches and I had exhausted the buttons described in the instructions.
• The turtle is cute as an enemy, but a bit confusing to me since it doesn't read as a dangerous animal at all. I honestly died to it a couple times because I thought I could just handle it Mario style and ride the things if jumping on top of him didn't immediately kill them.

It's pretty interesting. I like the premise of the game and the way the monochromatic terrain makes all the objects of interest stand out.

The movement is a bit frustrating sometimes. The slow horizontal acceleration is such that I have to peck the buttons rather fast when I'm near spikes to get next to them and for some reason it feels like it's more effort than it should be to just stand next to the spikes without gliding onto them. And the instant vertical acceleration and gravity speed make it so the time window to successfully jump up through a narrow ceiling gap to a new level is short. I feel like the most interesting part of the game is learning what items to use in what order in order to solve each puzzle and concentrating on the run'n'jump aspect feels like a distraction as a result.

I had to stop on level 4 because I couldn't figure out what the purple button-like things on the right are. I broke the vial to cross over and jump around near them myself and then I tried again and carried the turtle over and threw it at them and got munched instantly. Already I can't think of anything else to do on that level.

Also while I was writing this, the turtle's pacing brought it off the spikes over to the buttons on his own and the music cut out and won't start again.

But overall, good job. Thanks for making this.

Nice Game ! Smart take on the theme.

Few feedbacks:

The contoller mapping felt counter intuitive I kept pressing South to jump and west to grap (which are kinda standard jump and action buttons) so I ended up restarting levels instead of grabing stuff ^^.

The repeated jump when you keep the jump pressed felt a bit weird. maybe make it so you have to release the button before you jump again.

I got stuck on level 4 because I expected a key to drop when pressing the buttons instead of the buttons actually being the key. (plus you're not reusing this mechanism in the next levels, it's too bad, it could have lead to interesting puzzles)

Encountered a few minor collision bugs (mostly near breakable doors) but nothing game breaking.
Also for some reason the sounds & music stoped after a while (don't know what triggered it though)

Apart from that, The puzzles are pretty clever and just hard enought  to make you scratch your head a bit without being too frustrating. kuddos on that.

Good work. I had fun playing. :)

I liked the design!

The art is great and the concept is very smart. I got a little frustrated with the controllers, tho. The puzzles are a little difficult, and sometimes I got stuck longer due to control.

Overall, it's an impressive job for a game jam! Congratulations!

Hey, you're doing some clever design things with a cool palette and art, but the character controller does not feel great imo, which dampens the mood on this otherwise clever game. 

I really liked the design! And the concept is good too, i really enjoy puzzle games.
I think the jump is a bit clunky and the music slowing when dying is a good touch but after your 20th death it became a little annoying atleast for me, but that doesn't make the game bad at all! I still really enjoyed playing it