Hey The Puzzle Wizard! I just played this - here's my feedback. This is a weird one for me as it is one of the most polished games I have played from the IGC discord and its well polished as well, not a polished turd but like a well made thing that is very polished but then at the same time there are a quite a few things that frustrated me with it and I ended up stopping pretty early. I think it has loads of potential but also needs some work as I found it sometimes unenjoyable to interact with (sorry if that sounds mean).
What was the most frustrating moment in what you experienced?
I actually found a few things frustrating so I am going to say a few things here - sorry but hopefully you find this helpful. The tutorial was quite irritating and intrusive - I think the way it dropped out as if it was done and then popped back like a second later was really annoying after a while as you never knew when it was actually finished. The recipe making and shopping and the general interaction with the inventory was frustrating - I really wanted to just be able to pick up an item and move it around, seems like the main way you use grid based inventories but in this game clicking on it made it move over automatically and I didn't seem to be able to rearrange and rotate etc. I found the camera controls a bit frustrating and weird.
What was your favorite part of the game?
Visuals and general level of polish. I also liked that the Grandma called me sweetie at the beginning :-) I think this is a really charming game and has lots of potential
Was there anything you wanted to do, but the game didn’t let you?
Easily pick stuff up and move it around etc in the inventory, it kept just jumping across which was super annoying.
If you had a magic wand where you could change any part of the game, regardless of cost or complexity, what would you add/change/remove?
Basically to change the things that I said were frustrating above.
What would you say you were doing in the game?
Running an ice cream stall
How would you describe the game to friends and family?
A game about making ice cream and selling it and an ice cream stall