Thank you, I have been having thoughts about whether or not to maintain the 16x16 artstyle I started with. I think for some of the early creatures it makes sense and works well, but for the later creatures I wasn’t all that into it. Whoever originally designed the Digimon generation 1 sprites really knew what they were doing, and if I try and emulate it too much I’ll just end up copying the work of someone better.

Like I mentioned bellow, seeing lots of positive comments and feedback has been highly motivating for me so unless I loose that motivation because of school or work I am currently rebuilding and continuing the project in my spare time. Thank you for checking out my Jam submission!

Seeing some of the new comments and positive feedback is very motivating for me. After VimLark’s stream the other day and getting more feedback on the game I am back to working on it further. I am essentially recreating it from the ground up at the moment only cuz Jams have a tendency to make me write sloppy code. My goal is to have a full working demo of the idea I had originally intended to showcase for the jam. This demo I would ideally like to have done by early December. Thanks for playing my game. I didn’t expect people to play it this much :)

I agree with your feedback here. Not having a clear and visible indication that a combination failed, or a list of which combinations worked was an oversite on my part. Originally I planned on the Dex menu be a visual tree graph of combinations and outcomes, I did not plan on adding an animation when a combination was found though. I think if I would scrapped certain aspects sooner rather than later I could have made the end experience a little more fulfilling. Thank you for your well thought out impressions.

Hey, glad you liked it. I agree with the feedback here, and its something I wanted to do. I just couldn't prioritize the rights things for this jam. Next time one of my main goals is to improve user experience in my games.

Hi, I really appreciate the video of your impressions of the game. It was actually pretty insightful to some glaring oversights in my UI / UX design. You are correct, most of the game I had in mind is not entirely implemented as you saw the item shop was not in a totally working state as of yet. The only playable gameplay besides adding creatures to your neat little collection is combining them together to discover new creatures. When you leave an area and travel back to the main screen you will notice the creatures that were in your bag will become automatically populated into the scene. When developing I intended for this to act as a visual inventory of sorts. You can click and drag the creatures from bellow the item shop into the slots within the combine menu. From there I intended for the player to experiment and try and combine creatures in different ways. When a possible combination is found the new creature will automatically join the group in the fenced area made of bushes. Each area the player can travel to has a random loot table system of sorts for spawning different creatures. The rarest spawn is a tabby cat I created who takes after my own childhood tabby cat. You will need him in order to complete the dex of creatures. I know this reply is probably way longer than it needed to be. Just wanted to collect all of the unexplained elements of the game so I can update the webpage tomorrow. Also I have already updated the page to credit my source for the music track as it is not my own creation, in my rush to publish I did not have it written down and thus forgot to credit the author. Terrible mistake on my part. Once again thank you for taking the time to look at my game.