Thanks for playing!  I feel like the rule set offers quite a lot of potential with just the few basic rules in the jam.  I'm excited to explore this more thoroughly in the future and branch out into other mechanics.

Thanks for playing!  The most technical part of development for me was getting all the character movements synced up to the same keypress in a way that doesn't leave anyone stranded in a weird state.  It's hard to honor all the various ways the player could be pressing directions and/or undo while still making the controls feel responsive.  I just picked up Slip 'n Slime the other day and they have this cool input mechanic where moves are queued up and executed at the appropriate time if you are entering inputs faster than the little slime character can move.  It's easy to miss great controls like that, but super noticeable when things feel bad.

Glad you liked it! Getting walls, posts, and enemy behavior was initially just going to be my springboard into other features, but I was really surprised to see how much could be done with just these basics.  The visual cues for enemy pathing and the undo feature were really the only must-haves from there.  Anything less and the game becomes decisively miserable to navigate.

Thanks for playing!  Designing levels for this game ended up feeling like a game all its own.  I had a lot of fun with it.

I'd argue that the lore of the game involves some risky maneuvers, but I'll definitely cede that a deterministic rules set with the ever-present option to "undo" is pretty darn safe from the players perspective. :)

Thanks for taking a look!  After all the feedback, I think I have reasonable plan to smooth out the difficulty curve without nerfing the complexity of the later levels outright.  In short, there's some patterns that could be taught more clearly in earlier levels in order to ensure the player has a more complete toolbox at the ready for the larger constructions.

Thanks for playing!

Yeah, those first few levels are mainly there to set up the basic rules of the game. Level 3 is intended to show that dogs won't chase you if you don't have a biscuit yet and that they can't see through stone walls.  The last dog on the right is behind a wall and does not initiate a chase when you run by.  The problem is that there is really only one movement step between that and when the big win screen pops up, and so the player has really only had a split second to get that feedback before everything is covered up.  The win/lose screens are flawed in that they deny visual feedback on the final game state.  Without that key insight about fence vs. wall visibility, the player isn't given the requisite tools to solve further levels, including the one you posted.

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Thank you for the feedback!  There is at least one feature that was ready to go in the game, but got squished out of scope for level design due to other time commitments.  Certainly I would like to explore other terrain types and dog behaviors.  There are some pairings in particular that I think would escalate complexity in a really nice way: introduce tall grass where dogs can travel, but not see through.  Pair this soon after with a foil, like a bloodhound unable to see due to droopy eyes, but able to follow scent trails regardless of visibility.  Definitely lots of ways to go here.

Glad you were able to power through!  As with any puzzle game, if there isn't a strong "aha!" moment or if the solution feels otherwise arbitrary, then there just isn't going to be that perfect punch of satisfaction at the end.  I'll have to consider how to design in such a way as to encourage experimentation without inundating the player with combinatorial overload.

Thanks for playing!  Glad you had fun!  I definitely tried to push the endgame difficulty since that's just the kind of puzzle game I want to be making, but I also didn't want to hold anyone hostage (thus, the skip button).