What a great game. I love games that turn the desktop into a play space. The puzzle with the virus scanner was great probably my favorite. The graphics were cute, clean and simple, sold the story well. The sound effects were all solid and had enough meat to sell the game. I really appreciated the puzzle design, it felt just hard enough that I had to think but nothing felt undiscoverable. The nitpick I could think of was that letter hunting felt a little underwhelming for all the tools you had set up but scope management is key and you look like you kept your scope perfectly. I appreciated all the little QOL features, like the return to home, everything you need having strong color to stand out from the background etc. Overall just a really clean, enjoyable experience.
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Thank you so much! Thrilled that you had a good time :)
The feedback is much appreciated. The letter hunting was definitely a bit of a conceptual shortcut for me to be able to easily compartmentalise each individual puzzle during development. For the post-jam version, I think I'll be adding a few more puzzles that'll reuse the existing items in different ways, which will hopefully make it feel a bit more satisfying. Particularly, I had a lot more plans for the final "boss fight" that would get you to think outside of the box to use all the different tools you've acquired in the game so far to defeat HELP BOT.
Anyway glad that you had a bit of fun. Your game is already on my list of ones to play so I'm looking forward to checking it out! :)