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Writing this as I play. You too got full marks because as a solo dev this is an outstanding achievement. I just wanted to write a story of my experience. Good bits, fun bits. Bits that frustrated me. Or even ideas! Hope this is useful

  •  Your page is gorgeous. Good stuff. Good gifs, good colour scheme and it is just cohesive.
  • The sound on boot up is defaulted a bit too loud for me personally. I personally like setting it to default 70%
  • The art style is sick! Love Cloudy. 
  • Speaking of sound, I would have loved a settings menu to turn the sound down. I had to use the master on my own device.
  • You have the tutorial cloud, and it would be nice if the tutorial cloud quickly told you the controls also. Just one textbox. I had to tab out of the page (I couldn't exit full screen for some reason) and then it refreshed and cutscene and aahh-- anyway yeah. In game controls could be a thing you add. Movement feels smooth. Animations are good. Bridge sprouts work well
  • Expected to be able to water the dead looking orange flowers (look dead because of the colour) could not. 
  • I would have put the first bridge sprout closer to the original patch of grass
  • Cloudy explains the slingshot but not other movement. Seems you did think of it.
  • I AM NOT SLINGSHOTTING THE BIG SMILEY BLOB. EVEN IF THAT IS CLEARLY INTENDED.
  • slingshotted the cloudy blob. Did nothing. I feel bad.
  • Found the grey thing across the way. CLOUDY GOT IN THE WAY. HELP I AM STUCK. WHY DOES THIS STUPID CLOUD HAVE COLLISION
  • Ok it is clear that you have to hit the rock with a slingshot across the way but I cannot hit it for the life of me. Maybe for a next version an aim curve would be neat. Will try for a few more minutes.
  • Still have not hit it because cloudy keeps getting in the way. Backtracking. Maybe I missed something.
  • Ok one more try. Imma just spam the button in an upward motion surely one of these will hit
  • Ok I learned two things. The direction of the slingshot firing is not consistent. You can hold your button to fire stronger? Looks like it.  I cannot pass this RNG check and have been playing for 20 minutes. This is where imma throw in the towel.

TLDR: Had fun! loved the game. Got to the bit where you have to slingshot a rock. Crashed out. Would play again if there was more help for people who are bad at the game like me.

Wow, thank you so much for such an incredibly detailed "live-action" review and for the full marks! I appreciate it tons, especially coming from a fellow dev! 🙏✨

Reading your thoughts step-by-step was pure gold (and hilarious). Let me give you a couple of tips so you know how it actually works! First, you can actually interact with objects by pressing Enter. Second, that big smiley blob you didn't want to shoot is actually there to tell you that you can hold down the button to charge the slingshot! 😂

As for Cloudy... yeah, it totally betrays the player there! You actually need to aim way lower than you think, so that stupid cloud was literally blocking your entire view. My bad! I will 100% remove its collision in the next update just in case, so it stops trolling people.

I completely agree about the aim curve and the tutorial. Adding a proper aiming line is definitely on my list, though that mechanic is quite tough to pull off in just 7 days. Not including a full, proper in-game tutorial was definitely my biggest mistake for this jam, and I'll 100% fix that.

Thanks for pushing through for 20 minutes despite the frustration, and for being too kind to hurt the blob. Glad you loved the art and page design! Good luck with your rankings!